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this is deja vu news live from berlin 2 people are killed in a fire at a refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos a riot breaks out after migrants say firefighters take too long to arrive in situations like this also coming up. turkey is accused of sending refugees back to syria against their will remain a mother desperate to find her son. and violence intensifies in hong kong as protesters step up their fight for democracy will this unrest overshadow events in
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china to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us at least 2 people have died in a fire at an overcrowded greek migrant camp the dead are reported to be a woman and the child that plays struck the morea camp on the island of lesbos who was later put out but residents of the camp angry at what they say was a slow response clashed with police now conditions at the camp are at a breaking point after a sharp spike in migrant arrivals from turkey. misery upon misery on the greek island of last boss migrants scramble to escape a crowd of tear gas fired by police as a tragic chain of events unfolded at the marianna town.
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the fire broke out inside the camp quickly spreading through containers used to highways residents there are conflicting reports about what happened next and then go working in the camp says a group of migrants rushed to extinguish the blaze and police used tear gas to chase them away. police say they fired tear gas to disperse rioters i'm good by the time it took to pacify the deadly fire. what's undisputed is that a group of migrants attacked firefighters who arrived on the scene a video posted on facebook shows the damage it does you know police officers were flown in from athens to help restore calm conditions of moriah have always been difficult but in recent months they've gotten worse migrant arrivals to greece from turkey have surged reaching their highest level since 2016 when the european union
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signed a deal with ankara to stem the flow. about 12 peasant people are currently has in the camp though it's only designed for a quarter of that number the deadly fire and rioting will increase pressure on the greek government to ease the situation with the harsh winter months approaching fast. let's go straight to athens now we're joined by correspond curaçao good morning to you have they do we know anything more about what might have caused this fire or a cab. well there are conflicting reports as to what in fact caused this blaze. by one account it was caused in fact by this woman who was killed in this blaze because she started cooking in her container and that quickly spread by other accounts there were 2 separate fires one fire that was set
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outside the camp and then within 20 minutes another fire set within the camp which kind of shows an orchestrated and premeditated kind of attempt either way the chaos that kind of ensued and what happened simply underscores the abysmal situation in what is being called europe's most embarrassing refugee camp 13000 people crammed in a camp build to hold 3 sow's. abysmal is the right word the images we're getting show just how over crowded this campus can you tell us something about about the riots as a result of this fire. well there were the riots of actually what happened what ensued was that once these these fires took place that many of the refugees who were in that and who have been extremely frustrated by very long stays
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simply rioted because of the asylum process that is taking so long that however as far as rescue attempts had had a very negative impact because the firefighters could not move in and eventually the police riot police had to move in and fire some tear gas to disperse these militants migrants and to bring about some calm and to get this rescue operation going eventually the fire was doused out by water planes and there is some degree of calm now at this camp but there are great fears among the locals that it's just a matter of time before new riots will be triggered. salva their force in athens was to turkey now where president reza tire parrot along says a new safe zone in northeastern syria will create an area where his government can
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repatriate syrian refugees he also wants to keep this safe safe zone in place to prevent kurdish militants from approaching the southern border now he said he was determined to establish the zone by now the end of september but his government and the united states have different ideas about how big the zone should beg or long says whole act alone if there's no agreement meanwhile syrian refugees in turkey say some are already being deported to areas including the north of syria which they say are far from safe w. met one woman whose son was sent back against as well. mohammed has been gone for almost 2 months when often issue thinks about what happened to her son she feels helpless lost. in early august mohammed was riding a friend's motorbike in istanbul the bike was unregistered mohammed was stopped by police and then sent to
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a detention center. about 12 days later i got a call from a hommage. he said they've taken me to syria to italy that was his last phone call i haven't heard from him since. when have my heart broken when me fled from syria he was still a small child. now they have sent him back to that place. and i don't know where he is. he stumbles fattish distrait is an area where many syrians live many here for heard that the turkish authorities have been deporting refugees in recent months and most of them are afraid that they could be next. when they started sending people back i was so scared i didn't leave my house to make my lord you know an m.b.a.
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or live when there are more restrictions on us now people are being deported back to syria we can't escape turkey for europe anymore because it's too dangerous. yeah we're going to lose it and we syrians used to feel welcome here in rio we learn it's changed a little bit alarming about how we feel like unwanted migrants again. turkey has taken in more refugees from syria than any other country more than 3600000 people in the space of a few years hundreds of thousands live here in istanbul they've set up stores of brest wrongs they've tried to build a new life while turkish society initially responded with more marketable resilience hospitality is now rapidly wearing fit. took the losses they've both iran see if more of them come i don't want to live in this
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neighborhood and in this country anymore. it's me. i get along very well with most of the syrians here there are some bad people but you get that everywhere you go and i guess we want them to leave as soon as possible we don't want them here any more because the childers in those ridicule turkish president of tired out one has recognized this change in public sentiment in the past few weeks he has made repeated promises that millions of syrians will return home to a so-called safe zone that he wants to establish in the north east of syria. but the government insists deportations are not taking place and that syrians who are returning are doing so voluntarily. the mare chattanooga's disagrees the lawyer is trying to help get off the racial son back from syria mohammed and his family have valid turkish documents and
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protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone as a serious human rights violation of the mohammed is not an isolated case which of this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months. is a lawyer. he says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. mohammed's mother is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. briefing on some of the other stories making the news at this hour in paris thousands of mourners waited into the evening to pay their respects to former
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french president jacques shock he died last thursday at the age of 86 and lying in state at the end believes monument some 30 world leaders are due to attend funeral later today. u.s. president all trump says he deserves to meet his accuser in the whistleblower scandal in a series of late night tweets us president attacked the whistleblower who released details about a phone call between trump and the ukrainian president in that call the president asked his counterpart to investigate political opponent joe biden for corruption. oh my god rights groups have demonstrated in guatemala against a deal that prevents central americans from making their asylum claims inside the united states citizens of guatemala el salvador and honduras now have to apply for asylum in their home countries instead that under a deal reached with the trumpet. it's to austria now where former
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chancellor sauce in courts is set to return to power after a sweeping electoral victory that saw his anti migration peoples party when the biggest share of the vote that poll was called after his previous government collapsed following a scandal involving his far right coalition partners the freedom party. the recent scandals that triggered the government's collapse apparently didn't hurt sebastian courts at the ballot box. the former chancellor is poised to return to power results show his people's party is the clear winner support for the conservatives jumped more than 5 percent. was thank you thank you very much my dear friends. we lost the confidence vote in may. the past 4 months were difficult and today the people voted us back into power thank you very much. there were many long faces at the headquarters of the
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conservatives former coalition partners the far right freedom party besides an expense scandal a covert video showing former chairman heinz christiane struck appearing to offer favors to a woman posing as a potential donor devastated the populace their support tumbled by some 10 percent . unfortunately the results are not a mandate to resume a governing coalition now the once and likely future chancellor will have to be creative but slightly weakened social democrats with nearly 22 percent of the vote or a potential coalition partner so are the greens they almost quadrupled their support to 14 percent enough to re enter parliament. we will soon be holding talks with other parties above all the people's party that's correct i've been striving for that but it will be a discussion about possibilities and whether it makes sense to hold talks at all
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for handling and. it could still be days before all postal ballots are counted then the focus will shift to the difficult task of coalition building and deciding the balance of power in austria so what's ahead for austria did have years max hofmann following this vote for us in vienna good morning max there are a number of coalition options today for sebastien course the once and future chancellor what are his most likely choices do we know. it's are those 3 options in the report brian and let me walk you through them so 1st of all you have the freedom party the far right freedom party that seems like a very unlikely option at the moment because the freedom party itself has said they want to go back into the opposition and if they change their mind which is not a given at all it would probably not be a very viable coalition with all the scandals of the last months then you have the social democrats but the social democrats and call it says austin peoples party are
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very far apart on different topics especially when it comes to social policy and migration so that basically leaves the greens and many experts here in vienna think that is the most viable option of course they also have the differences social policy migration but it won't when it comes to the economy or a green economy they might find a solution there it'll be hard talks they need to bridge a gap they need to align their positions it won't be easy but as i said it might be the most likely option at the moment ok so everyone looking at the greens right now what about the freedom party they took a real beating at these polls in the wake of that corruption scandal how much are they still a force in national politics in austria right now. they did take a beating with 10 percent that is significant still they got 16 percent that's not nothing so it means they really have a very strong 'd core electorate that is unaffected by all those scandals so the
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measures are basically they want to go back into the opposition they want to have internal compliance to all boyd corruption as its surface of the last months in the future and they already crashed out of 3 governments in the past but they always came back so you know chances are they'll come back this time as well ok well what about this election and its influence on the european union as the e.u. looks for more unity inside the block on issues like migration is something we're reporting on a lot this morning. austria has often been seen as a lab of sorts for the rest of the european union on a small scale and you can you can tell that a lot of of the conservative parties are looking towards austria 1st of all because of the success of the best quotes can they copy it and 2nd of all because they've been trying to hug up to the greens to get some more climate competency and if the you really have this conservative green coalition here it could be
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a blueprint for the rest of europe and of course we expect austria to change its hardline migration policy at least slightly if the rains come into a coalition max often thanks so much for that from vienna this morning max. phil to come on this program 30 years ago a dream came true for thousands of germans playing the communist east look back at the events that changed the course of history. but 1st just to china where celebrations are taking place to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule there president xi jinping attending a ceremony at yemen square to remember the heroes of the civil war which saw millions die and the communist seize power the main celebrations are taking place on tuesday with a huge military parade asked tiananmen square. but beijing fears this anniversary could be overshadowed by the pro-democracy protests and unrest in hong
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kong w.'s charlock show some pill as this for. its images like these beijing hoped would have long been stamped out chinese president xi jinping trampled underfoot. instead mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china and these protesters are no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely they want to capsulize only attention and make that. should be a great day but we really can't find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what the you have suffered i hope to make other country attention to understand more whites we are going to fight for this this think is a good one to coach us to do so that hope we don't lose
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who fight for freedom i do we so much to hold. all star teams here famous unrest and she say they want to avoid a repeat of morsi. it's like this. images of angry young play chess is threatening to pull focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass authorities police have made clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated boss there's only so much they can do to keep people off the streets instead that massively scaled back the annual celebrations to prevent them from being swamped by protesters ordinarily this area behind me is packed with people marking the anniversary this year though all the ceremonies have had to be moved inside inside that building that rope looks like these ones stopping people from even getting close in the evening a massive fireworks display that usually lights up the sky behind me drawing
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thousands has also had to be councils. if you look hard enough you will find some signs of support for the anniversary a few lone flags lined the streets of a neighborhood known for its prey beijing sentiment. one local shop owner tells me he's looking forward to the anniversary but even he will be marking it privately. i will spend the day doing my duty as a chinese citizen i will do my best to run my business well and keep working. at the night falls these few symbols of support for beijing atone to the ground for democracy supporters unwilling to let even the slightest hint of celebration go on touched. while it was 30 years ago that thousands of east germans fleeing communism made their way to the czechoslovak up at all prague their destination was the west german embassy there which they were hoping to use as a staging point to get to freedom in western germany now there gamble paid off and
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on the 30th of september 1989 they packed onto these trains heading west 3 decades later some of them have been retracing their steps. just. the journey back in time. 30 years ago hill much sunder was traveling in a train just like this one. it's like reliving it all over again. back then sunder was one of thousands of refugees fleeing east germany they travelled in special trains from prague to the west but to get there they had to pass through
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east german territory where they feared they'd be arrested. in order to keep memories of those journeys alive some of the people who made those trips then doing it again. they all left east germany that way. after several tense weeks in the west german embassy in prague. in september 1989 east germans were poor ng into the embassy the building was quickly overwhelmed. many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. sanders spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. for them.
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it never stopped raining the cooktown border so you didn't have to walk through the mud the. tents wherever they could find a space where the match was the tents were all crowded up against one another. and. then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister hans dietrich genscher arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers. i. was. i. can't share promised that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west stand it was there and heard him. while he was
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standing right here. it's all coming about israel. that same night santa and his family left the embassy and boarded the train to west germany. who thought it was a very emotional journey of a 50 very difficult ordeal they say it would show for us it was a train to freedom. just a few weeks later only citizens of east germany gained their freedom on november 9th 1809 to berlin rule came down. we have football now in the bonus league a match day 6 sol the continuation of the freiberg fairytale that small club traveling to disallow or to try to maintain their surprise position in the top 4
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and they did that thanks to a superb winning goal. after a dull 42 minutes dusseldorf were gifted the opener keeper alexander swallow will want this one back growing henning's not in from close range that jolted freiburg into gear and they responded immediately jonathan schmidt tapping into level on the stroke of half time after the break freiburg when a penalty but lucas hole is low shots didn't fool zach stephan with this moment hole into the visitors it didn't seem to bother youngster luke of ultimate who cut across the field to send a scream apos deafen for freiburg 2nd to one the final score their finger stuck very good in the season there were a few good. be a big big q my finger states are good another went on the road for coach christian strife fried. and his team mates now move up to 3rd in the table.
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is today facing the 1st big class action suit in germany there was a do a diesel gate erhard was looking for the out they facing the 1st of beautiful german what most of. those you. indeed the 1st really big one of those laws only been changed less than a year ago so to make that possible and this 400000 more than 400000 diesel car owners who basically want that money back and the compensation for the folks who are already has paid out in all sorts of countries. $30000000000.00 euros and this will come on top so it's going to be big more of that in the business. coming up straight ahead let's fill you in right now on our top story at this hour at least 2 people have died in a fire refugee camp on the greek island lesbos a riot broke out after a migrant said firefighters took too long to iraq. this
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dude if you do is live from berlin i'm ryan thomas for the entire team thanks for joining us so far gary hart we'll be right back with the news about what is facing in court today thanks for being with us.
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