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this is d.w. news live from berlin an impassioned teenager calls out world leaders at the united nations climate emergency summit. really the beginning of the mass extinction and what you can talk about is in money and it came to details of economic growth. greater turn bird confronts world leaders on climate change to kucing them a failing her and future generations. also coming up there's
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a deal maybe 5 european union countries sketch out an agreement on processing migrants after they were rescued from the mediterranean. and sunny boy here is his police of murdering people but in fact the protesters are very aggressive if the police are just maintaining law and order in hong kong or sticking up for their own former police officer say they're on duty colleagues have done great work amid months of civil unrest despite allegations of police brutality. i'm when blue cross glad to have you with us it's the end of the world as we know it and climate scientists and activists are feeling anything but fine they're telling world leaders gathered in new york for a u.n. climate action summit that they're falling well short of heading off the worst effects of climate change. german chancellor angela merkel is one of many
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government heads of the summit u.s. president donald trump made a surprise appearance after reports said he might be a no show. but the clear star of the event has been swedish teenage activist great attorney burke. and byrd gave a furious address accusing them of inaction and mere talk this is all wrong. i shouldn't be up here. i should be back in school on the other side of the ocean yet you will come to us young people for hope how dare you you have stolen my dreams my childhood with your empty words and yet i'm one of the lucky ones people are suffering people are dying and tired ecosystems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of
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eternal economic growth how dare you 6 thank you. d.w. correspondent alexander fund has been covering the summit in new york for us she sent us this is cessation of today's events. gratitude and emotional speech at the u.n. climate summit was man's to galvanize the world leaders into bold climate change acts and indeed the leader of 2 leader told the united nations that they will do more to prevent global warming from reaching even more dangerous levels but even as they made their pledges they had to admit it might not be enough $66.00 countries promised to have more ambitious climate goals some of them like france and germany are pledging to contribute more money to help poorer nations deal with climate issues too little too late according to greg berg the swedish climate activist has
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filed a complaint to the united nations claiming that the lack of action by many of its member states violates the us and convention on the rights of the child. now to some other stories making news around the world from france germany and the united kingdom have issued a joint statement saying iran is responsible for recent attacks on saudi oil facilities this aligns them with washington on the issue on the sidelines of the un general assembly the 3 leaders urged iran to avoid provocation and instead choose dialogue. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has met with his political rival benny gantz after calling for a unity government president reuven rivlin brokered talks after last week's elections failed to prove a clear winner both sides have been looking for coalition partners. 2
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people including a press photographer have been wounded in a confrontation outside haiti's senate building when a senator opened fire on opposition demonstrators this after hundreds of people marched on the building protesting food and fuel shortages. 5 european union countries have struck a deal on resettling migrants rescued from the mediterranean they grant reached in malta aims to help southern member states which take in the most refugees the full e.u. will discuss taking up the steam next month. on land at last in malta migrants rescued off the coast of libya a finally able to this embark on european soil in many cases asylum seekers have been stranded at sea for weeks while e.u. countries argue about who will take them. europe has wrangled for years over what should happen to migrants rescued at sea the e.u. has dublin agreement states that migrants must seek asylum in the 1st e.u.
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country they reach and that has been a major bone of contention for european countries that border the mediterranean. now a deal struck by germany france italy and finland could finally see an end to the route over the redistribution of migrants rescued in the mediterranean. it's a plan that would take the burden off italy and malta and foresees the swift relocation of migrants to other e.u. members part of the plan could see germany taking in a quarter of those migrants to help process that asylum applications the lawyers at the the people that have brought onto land have to be redistributed to kind of their security status can be determined through a process of interviews but it's impossible to determine their legal status in such a short 4 week period so their right to asylum is for example what will be decided in germany. these are just the bones of the plan which will be put to the e.u.'s
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other interior ministers at a wide to sum it in october for now at least there's hope that could soon be an end to the days when rescue ships packed with desperate people turned away from europe supports. did have your correspondent banner is in malta following the meeting he reports that's what so far been agreed to leave a lot to be desired i'm afraid nothing will change here because this mechanism this emerged mechanism is only meant for very tiny portion of migrants only migrants who are rescued by private ships this were only 2000 in the last 15 months and people drowning you can only prevent that if you risk you more but you will not send additional ships into the sea the ships will remain the same the 9 private ships which currently cruising the mediterranean hong kong has seen 16
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straight weekends of pro-democracy protests and the battle on the streets have been matched by a battle for the hearts and minds demonstrators say the city stands with them government officials insist a silent majority exists one that's opposed to the protesters demands g.w.s. in speaking with 2 retired police officers in that pro-government camp. joseph it has agreed to meet us although he says he does not trust the press so we'll mind recording our conversation ok he is a retired police officer and a staunch supporter of the hong kong government side in the current crisis the side that he feels is not represented accurately in most news outlets. i start awarding the kneelers. since july. watching just a white or news report but you know because i can still get in touch what was
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happening from all those messages from my friends. the longer the protests last the most strident from both camps refused to communicate with each other internet forums are shaping and polarizing opinions in each group rumors and conspiracy theories are rampant and when both sides meet things often get are. hard for the long is also a retired police officer when he walks through his neighborhood it is hard for him to miss messages from the anti government protesters they have set up a so-called lennon wall near his home. so while they do that here it says police are murdering people but in fact the protesters a very aggressive the police are just maintaining law and order tot. mom has just returned from a long stay abroad and says he doesn't recognize his city anymore. in
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his spare time he sometimes helps out at police stations as a volunteer handing out food and drinks to the front line offices and while he says he understands demands for greater democracy he doesn't think they are realistic. while you think it's our that it might well used to serve in the colonial police force case then the british government could decide on everything cadwell hong kong belongs to china case at pase there are problems at the hong kong government can't solve it makes sense that beijing intervenes. by woman. but fewer and fewer hong kong as a willing to accept beijing's authority and clashes between police and protesters escalating with petrol bombs and bricks being thrown by radical protesters and police being accused of deliberately hurting demonstrators and passes by.
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in a recent poll almost 3 quarters of respondents said that they thought police was using excessive violence joseph also started his career in colonial times does not agree at my time we are taught that when. writers are for owing petrol bomb you. should be fly brungs. but now i think they are doing a great job in the sense that they. restrain he's glad he says that he is not on active duty and the more. honestly a matchday 5 came to a close with a monday night class for involves fire and hoffenheim the end to end action cat fans on the edge of their seats but there wasn't enough for a winner as the game ended in a one all draw. colesberg were unbeaten going into the game but that record looked under threats early on when sebastian rudy killed in a peach of
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a shot in the 6 minutes. it was the perfect way for rudy to mark his 200th bundesliga game for hoffenheim. buttholes progress ponded before half time when a cheeky back heel from vote they cost set up at me in the mehdi. the forward rounded off a smart move from the hosts hammering the ball past all of the bauman in the hoffenheim goal. the size went into half time level after the break both teams pushed for a winner with hoffenheim going close's through christophe got a flying say from power and can't hit a $11.00 and that's how it's both sides taking it is served point from the encounter. the cream of the crop of world football gathered in milan of monday night for the best fifa football awards after lifting world cup with the u.s. in july forward megan rapinoe was named the women's player of the year the men's award went to lionel messi the 1st time he's won it in this form the coach's words
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when team usa jill ellis liverpool's north flow. germany is bidding farewell to an outer space pioneer in the 1st german in space as died at the age of 82 the east german cars were not trained in the soviet union the 1970 s. he spent 8 days in space the trip at the height of the cold war made the cause but not a hero in communist east germany but he remained largely unknown in the west after german reunification yen helped train astronauts at the european space agency. baikonur august 1988 a space flight that propelled the german into space for the 1st time and made. the hero in communist east germany a socialist figurehead even learned by heart words the political had given him.
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no i didn't create my flight to the 30th anniversary of the founding of the german democratic republic that my socialist fatherland brought about. 25 years later the physicist took the pragmatic view of his greeting from outer space . because if you were given a task like that you can't save him before takeoff i won't say that but otherwise you've played it and besides that i was an officer we were raised that way it was all part of it today people talk differently. with a very small almost is another matter. the east german government used the space flight for propaganda purposes and presented it as a victory over west germany zeke when he was revered as a hero while the west german press downplayed the achievement after the fall of the berlin wall and worked for the european space agency organizing cooperation between western european and russian astronauts close ties to his hometown of morgan who
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took out and cons and northern germany home to the country's only space travel museum it was here that sick monkey and celebrated the 30th anniversary of his historic spaceflight. and after a short break we'll have to double your news africa so it is sure to stay tips. to its. with its own gravitational pull. the finest musical compositions. with some mysterious trace. us don't believe that she was into the.

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