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this is d.w. news live from berlin tonight night falls across iraq after another day of violence and death. at least 10 people were killed as security forces opened fire on crowds protesting corruption and lack of jobs dozens are now dead after 4 days of the rest iraq's leading shiite cleric says and now is enough also coming up tonight fresh clashes erupt across hong kong as pro-democracy demonstrators defy government efforts to end months of unrest within emergency powers law. and it with an
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increasing number of refugees arriving in greece through turkey d.w. news reports from inside europe's biggest refugee camp where children are growing up in tents and inside shipping containers. time off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome it has been another day of killing in iraq the country facing now its worst crisis since the defeat of so-called islamic state 2 years ago today security forces opened fire on protesters in the capital baghdad as a again flooded the streets 10 people were killed just today the death toll in 4 days of unrest in el stands at more than 60.
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protesters rushed to take one of their own to safety and they flee as the sound of sniper fire ricochets through the streets and again. they're desperate enough to risk their lives because they feel the state has failed them were those that are. going to protesting because we are suffering there's no electricity no jobs people are dying of starvation and it's a curse. on all the rest has spread rapidly across the country this week without any apparent leadership or connection to a political or sectarian movement in response to the protests the government has shut down the internet and imposed around the clock curfew in the capital. the government says it's trying to improve iraqis lives despite sending snipers into the streets in the prime minister called for patience and the how the who in the country is going through a sensitive time i speak to you openly so that the security situation does not lead
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to the destruction of the entire state what will. a spokesman for the country's most influential shia cleric urge the government to listen to the protesters demands what how the relative new lead authorities are betting that the demands will decrease you know not what they should know that reform is an inevitable necessity even if the calls for reform decrease for the time being then they will return stronger and much more widespread than this and. the iraqi government has barely held on through years of sectarian turmoil the question now is whether it can survive an uprising that's not based on religion or belief but deep dissatisfaction. well i'm joined now by my colleague of here with all he's an iraqi journalist he's reported extensively from the country it's good to see you again i want to ask you the prime minister there. can his government survive what we just saw happening on the streets i think it's difficult to say he's going to survive it
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is a question of time whether it is week or a year we are no facing a dark day in iraq history because people killing in the street just because calling for their demands a little months of unemployment reducing unemployment and. fighting the corruption in iraq spend about $450000000000.00 from from 2005 to now for infrastructure things happened and of course people say enough is enough why is the government taking such a strong wind here i mean they're using live ammunition and firing on protesters we're not talking about months and months of unrest and violence we're talking about something that's been going on for 4 days you know when the military when the security service is quite nervous because there is some allegation or information
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from some parties believe that this could be a tool of some something foreign an influence from saudis or from an american something that is they become a nervous and they become easy tool to shut down with that protesters it's really sad to see that bad development in iraq and you know this is basically floating on oil i mean it is it has rich rich reserves of oil and yet you wouldn't know it by looking at the streets of baghdad why is this disconnect still they are. corruption and corruption and again the corruption when you put. some programs on the paper and you want to see that that's on the grow nothing is happening because the funds go in the pockets of some politicians the people you. when some politician in the floor was
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a nothink happened since 2005 to know people still remembering the time of saddam although they hate him and they wish that time to go to come back because at least they have stability at these they have some somehow a public service now we don't have that level of that public service and the approach of so far been limited to largely shia arab parts of the country the one about the sudanese and the kurds why are they not joining in this in these are tired from the fighting islamic state all the cities birds the majority of that. living in the tents and also they are afraid if they go to the street the government could call them that they would like to call back is them satan and supporters and so on that's why they have enough problems to do with that they just want to survive and. cities just came outside from the fire. i mean
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was always always we appreciate your insights thank you thank you very much wealth around. thousands of protesters have returned to hong kong streets despite emergency powers invoked overnight by the government many are still wearing face masks despite a ban that was imposed earlier today protesters could face up to a year in prison if they are caught in public where even a partial face masks. it's the most prominent symbol of the protests demonstrators have been wearing face masks since the beginning of the pro-democracy movement in hong kong to avoid punishment by the government masks like these are commonly available at pharmacies there are rare defense against a widespread use of facial recognition software by the chinese government and that's a nuisance for the authorities your problem is the identification of the suspects
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who would be to many offenses such as criminal damages raw years unlawful assembly i'm wondering are people so many of them. will be able to avoid detection because of the amount i think must at midnight local time on friday a ban on facial masks took effect in hong kong along with other emergency regulations. we believe that the new law will create a deterrent effect against must violent protesters and riot is and will assist the police and as law enforcement protestors are so far unfazed by the new ban. on the car with. the. quality of the rest of the up to date do you think that used to allah still
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was there it must or the tomorrow they can use this list was a range of things and ring true that the christ us oh. oh the anger among protesters has if anything only mounted to weaken just like you to see new clashes more than. we did abuse to return drugs you know and here is from hong kong she's been following these protests for words so this emergency powers wall it's a leftover from colonial times so how is it even possible want to invoke it into why are the protesters so fearful of the right so you're right this emergency. as it was it's a new era law it was introduced in 1022 and it hasn't been used for more than 50 years but then it's also hasn't been refuted it hasn't changed it was always there but then and now caroline is using it to. bend and
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basically this law will give her the power to bypass the legislative process to pass through and if she thinks it's necessary that she's saying the city's in a state of emergency that she wants to pass a law this ban on wearing masks why has that created so much anger right so since the protest started more than 3 months ago protesters have been using face mass to protect themselves to stop themselves from being identified because they fear the retaliation from hong kong government and from the chinese government a specially because they know that their facial recognition technology is so powerful in china they don't know what they could do with the information off their faces and also actually many of them also fear retaliation from their own companies because many companies in hong kong that have this interesting china and they
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employ yes actually it gives them a lot of pressure to stop them to speak out or to show support for the protests to disrobe speak there was a report of both the airlines and it working for carefully. pacific she was from was fired because she supported the protesters these new walls when you think about them and you see the media reaction it looks like it's only made the situation worse but curious in her thinking she thinks that should make the situation better in the long term it's actually very ironic because when she made the announcement she said that this is a way to the escalate the situation to stop the violence in the city and then she was stopped talking to the people again. you can see that right after she made the announcement you can see that says every part of the city you can see protests as you say. you can see they are setting up mean things and shops and barricades and so it's really the opposite of what their government is trying to do
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and what about hong kong you know people that you talk to back home do they worry that this is going to get much worse before it gets but right actually many people are fearing that this is the 1st time the government is using this emergency law and that might be just to stop using against the law to pass and so that now they're fearing that the eventually social media and telegram and online forums that they have been using to organize demonstrations that we've seen it in other places where there has been civil and social unrest churchmen as always gerri thank you. and here is some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the documents submitted to a british court show that prime minister boris johnson will indeed try to delay the october 31st. deadline if no deal for leaving the e.u. is reached by october 19th well that would put the government in compliance with a law that was passed last month to avert
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a new deal breaks it the papers were filed in response to a lawsuit by opponents. text messages released overnight showed more white house attempts to pressure the ukrainian president the exchange between u.s. diplomats and is a lindsey's staff took place before that now famous july phone call in which trump asked president zelinsky to investigate joe biden and biden's son hunter congressional investigators obtained the messages from kurt volker the band you see here the former special envoy to ukraine french anti-terrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation of yesterday's deadly knife attack at the paris police headquarters officials have not established a motive for the rampage a 45 year old civilian police employee stamped 4 of his colleagues with a kitchen knife before he was fatally shot by a rookie police officer. the number of refugees arriving in greece has risen
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sharply the u.n. refugee agency says more than 10000 people mostly afghans and syrians a landed on the greek island in september alone by way of turkey one woman was killed 17 people were injured last weekend after a fire broke out at an overcrowded crowded greek migrant center now that center the morea camp on the island of lesbos is designed for 3000 people but it currently houses you see it right there 390-0000 w. reporters there and i mean as if are at that camp they pick up the story from there . this tent outside greece's largest refugee camp it's home to 4 people. i man who fled syria has been living here for close to a month the morea campus 4 times over its capacity so thousands are forced to live in the surrounding all the growth. is over
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a cup of tea i'm on tells us what life in the camp is like crowded dirty and dangerous every day every day that's normal no 5 can feel 5 and there are fighting inside and that's normal yeah. by but then we come to here to go out we don't want we don't want to problem with anyone. but problems in moria hard to avoid a fire broke out at the end of september in the camp and at least one person died residents rioted in anger as the firefighters put up the flame and they broke into administrative offices. oh my god 7. since that incident i'm on says trash has accumulated in heaps he believes the garbage collectors are too afraid now to come to the area. it's children who suffer most from the dire conditions they live in. the aid organization doctors
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without borders runs a mobile clinic next to the camp today they will see about 100 children a normal caseload. the most common ailments are fevers lice skin conditions but psychological trauma is on the rise. the organization says many children in morea camp have inflicted harm in themselves and have even attempted suicide in the case he said we are seeing of children traumatize from their a country of origin is for the completely. difficult journey that they took to reach europe to reach us and they end up here in a calm completely overcrowded we don't know services and safe and secure the conditions the mental condition of the children are bigger dating day by day this is daily life inside a refugee camp packed with more than $10000.00 people a result of the resurgence and c crossings to lesbos the trip from the turkish
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coast to this beach takes about 2 hours and more migrants are making this journey than at any other point since 2016 when the european union signed a deal with turkey to prevent them from coming now with thousands waiting on this and other greek islands for their asylum applications to go through people here tell us the situation has become a crisis a situation that worries yanis master again as he is the mayor of moria the small town right next to the camp. like many people living here he feels lesbos is being left to fend for itself. if it up and i think she admitted that having europe should show more solidarity and support greece with this problem greece alone isn't capable of dealing with this large number of refugees or the e.u. member states have to help take in people and at the same time increase the pressure on turkey to stick to their side of the agreement if it was the issue of when you're. back in the camp i'm on says he doesn't want to be
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a burden on anyone all he wants is a safe place to live. and he hopes to find this place before winter. well here's a look at now some of the other stories in brief the teenage climate activists gratitude joined a fridays for future demonstration today in the u.s. state of iowa she is making her way through the americas towards santiago chile where another un climate conference will take place in december a climate change tracking service has confirmed that last month was the hottest september ever recorded. the hollywood actor james franco is facing civil lawsuits brought by 2 women they accuse him of running a bogus film school in which women were asked to do new don't dish and or to shoot explicit sex scenes james franco faced similar allegations of sexual exploitation just last year. the director of america's f.b.i. has more on that facebook's plan to encrypt its popular messaging service could
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make it a platform for child sex abuse christopher rave says it encrypts in would be a dream come true for pedophiles facebook says encryption would improve users' privacy protection. it's been over 70 years since the soviet red army captured berlin ending the nazi regime but the fate of thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in the 2nd world war their fate remains unknown one of the bloodiest battles for berlin took place along what is now the german polish border now the red army fought a campaign to cross the older river as you see right there and that allowed them to capture strategic high ground as they were making their way towards berlin more than $40000.00 soldiers on both sides died their remains are thought to be scattered around places such as the village you see right there of clifton on the german side of the border a group of volunteers is now trying to locate those remains german and soviet
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remains so that they can finally be buried. a swiss anthropologist and an italian student dig carefully around the skeleton they're searching for bones and clues about the age and identity of the deceased the 6 sets of remains found at this excavation they believe he was a soviet soldier. wooden crates and that were left on the battlefield when the war ended because there were too many bodies to bury them all at sea they were often placed in military trenches or shallow pits then covered it was sorry must india and. east of burlington in the boat their heavy fighting in early 1945 claimed the lives of sounds of german and soviet soldiers many of the war dead still live here. to find them members of the group the association for the recovery
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of the fallen in eastern europe have been excavating the old trenches. digging twice a year they've excused the remains of more than $200.00 soldiers so far. you're happy because you find them but you mean if you have a lot of problems how do you take him out right is anything broken so there is of course exciting because you found these problems that you have to solve as well. that's why 40 specialists from across europe historians answer apologists and archaeologists are collaborating on this project they're doing so on a volunteer basis using their vacation time to look for soldiers' remains the associations chairman. is an entrepreneur from hamburg he has a personal motivation for his involvement his grandfather was among the soldiers killed in world war 2. but we're here because we want to resolve the fates of the
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soldiers who senselessly lost the young lives and least give them back their names with dignity proper grave and the name. in order to later identify the dead the volunteers very carefully remove the remains from the ground the greater the number of personal objects they find the greater the chance of identifying them and notifying families about their missing relatives this rarely happens but 23 year old danielle hammond has experienced it once was a moment that was the moment when i realized. that this is hugely important work. with our efforts and if you left over papers that were lying around somewhere for more than 70 years that person's face could be revealed for the family all right. the next day it's a military cemetery the volunteers together with local residents bury the recovered
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remains of 15 german soldiers in a dignified ceremony. this is also the end of one year of research so it's almost like i follow the days there the all across their cycle from their emerges from the ground to the river and that's something quite powerful the behold. next spring the volunteers hope to return and search for more fallen soldiers thousands still remain undiscovered and all those here know that only a small number of them will ever be recovered. well the dramatic rescue of 12 boys in their soccer coach from a cave in thailand dominated headlines across the world last year it was the stuff of hollywood movies and guess what the 1st film premieres this weekend in south korea director tom wallers the cape. i already know
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a real driver of the internet the other day q how would that work to locate. was when i have miles from here the behind a wall of water the rescue mission like this ever been attempted it's unprecedented it's the 1st big screen retelling of m.s. down doing a rescue operation. the boys were sedated with mosques and then dragged to freedom through kilometers of narrow passageway. the caves director says his film features some of the many ordinary people who gave up their time and help to save the boys' lives so in the film you'll see the story of the unsung heroes you'll see the volunteers of the local people who came to the mountainside to help you'll see
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divers travelling from across the planet to arrive at tom long in the north of thailand to literally jump into a cave and go pull these kids out 4 of the divers involved in the actual rescue are acting in the film under their real names. whatever happened inside the cave and the feelings that i experienced that it was experienced and the scenes that we saw is something that nobody has ever seen it on screen or heard of . him when he says the experience was terrifying but an important one to share at a time when many people's involvement with the natural world is confined to the indoors and to screens i was afraid. i'm always afraid when i go cave diving but if. we manage those fears and overcall those fears it's something that humanity really needs. to premiering at the busan international film festival in south korea this weekend the film will go on top. and it's set to come out in time.
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by thursday action at the world athletics championships the women's 400 meter race featured one of the fastest laps of all time and in the decathlon joy for germany with a performance to save her from an exciting young tell. germany's 21 year old sensation the stunned his face. nicholas cowdery was world junior champion in the decathlon and on thursday became the youngest ever athlete to take the senior title french favorite kevin maia had been forced out of the competition by injury leaving the field wide open and cow stepped up to the plate to make the gold medal his own. another 21 year old became the 1st asian ever to win the women's $400.00 metres world title and did it at historic pace bahraini south aid nasa took just 48.14 seconds to claim goals the 3rd fastest time ever. meanwhile british heptathlete
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catarina johnson thomson produced her 3rd and 4th personal bests of these games in the javelin and then the $800.00 metres to defend her spot at the top of the field and claim her place on top of the podium yet another maiden title to round off a day of insurgent success in doha. you're watching news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight the angry voter internees the and those s.m.s. phone text now part of an impeachment investigation for the right that.
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food security oppression martian isolation. or not has been achieved so much more needs to be john and i think people have to be at the heart of solutions my name is on the couch and i work at the delta. this weekend voters in tunisia will choose a new parliament what will not be on the ballot and what many wish were on the ballot consensus tonight in the country that gave birth to the arab spring 8 years ago populism appears to have found a new home here in europe a populism struck record has been mixed at best is there any reason to think it could work better in north africa i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day.
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