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the. tuber love and you enough. this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight's night falls across iraq after another day of violence and death. at least 10 people are killed as security forces opened fire on the grounds protesting corruption and the lack of jobs dozens are dead after 4 days of unrest direction leading shiite clerics says and enough is enough
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also coming up. fresh clashes erupt across hong kong as pro-democracy demonstrators defined government efforts to end months of unrest with an emergency how words wall . off it's good to have you with this it has been a nother day of killing in iraq the country now facing 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 today the death toll in 4 days of unrest nell stands at more than 60. 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
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risk their lives because they feel the state has failed them were them for that. we're going to protesting because we are suffering there's no electricity no jobs people are dying of starvation it's a curse. on 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 the prime minister called for patience at the how the who in a country is going through a sensitive time i speak to you openly so that the security situation does not lead to the destruction of the entire state will lose. a spokesman for the country's most influential shia cleric urged the government to listen to the protesters
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demands what how the relative you know you the authorities are betting that the demands will decrease you know not what they should know the 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 mir was always 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 is a question of time whether it is week or a year we are facing
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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 corruption in iraq spent about $450000000.00 home from 2005 to now for infrastructure things happened and of course people say enough is enough why is the government taking such a strong line 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 services quite nervous because there is some indication or information from some parties believe that this could be a tool of some something foreign an influence from saudis or from an american
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something i miss they become a nervous and they become easy tool to shut down with that protest 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 would know it by looking at the streets of baghdad why is this disconnect still they are. corruption and corruption and again of 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 influenza nothink happened since 2005 to know people still remembering the time of saddam although they hate him and they wish that time
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to go to come back because at least they have stability at these they have some somehow a public service no we don't have that level of that public service on top of the protests have so far been limited to a 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 evidence of 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 say and support us and so on that's why they have enough problems to do with that they just want to survive and there are cities just came out from the fire. i mean it's always always we appreciate your insights thank you thank you very much. well thousands of protesters have returned
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to hong kong streets despite emergency powers invoked overnight by the government many are still wearing face masks despite a band that was imposed earlier today protesters can face up to a year in prison if they are called in public wearing even a partial face mask. 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 the whites produce a facial recognition software by the chinese government and that's a nuisance for the authorities your problem is the identification of the suspects who would be to many offenses such as criminal damage or just raw years unlawful assembly i'm wondering are people so many of them. with the able to
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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 right against must violent protesters and rioters and we assist the police and as law enforcement protesters are so far unfazed by the new ban. this was the knock on the market. was earlier on the rest of the uk today do you think that used a. silly was there a must for the full run they can use that's almost a cotton ring thing and ring true that the price us of our.
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the anger among protesters has anything only mounted to weaken just like you to see new clashes and more. need to be used to return towards you know and here is from hong kong she's been following these protests words so this emergency powers wall it's a lift over from cool new york times or how is it even possible one 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 1922 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 carol lam is using it to a mixed. bag and basically this law will give her the power to bypass the legislative process to pass through and if it does she thinks it's
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necessary that she's saying the city's in a state of emergency that she wants to pass this ban on wearing cease mess why has that created so much anger right so since the protests started more than 3 months ago protestors have been using face mass to protect themselves to stop themselves from being identified because they fear the retaliation from hong kong from the chinese government especially because they know that their facial recognition technology is so powerful. they don't know what they the government 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 employers actually give them a lot of pressure to stop them to speak out or to show support for the protest of this rather think there was a report of. the working for care of the pacific he was it was. because she
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supported the protesters these new walls when you think about them 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 escalate the situation to stop the violence in the city and then she would start talking to the people again but you can see that right after she made the announcement you can see clashes in every part of the city you can see the protests as you say. you can see they are setting up i mean they send shops and barricades and so it's really the walk up on the strength 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
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the 1st time the government is using this emergency law and that might be this to stop using this 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 to thank you for the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their song or code from a cave in thailand dominating headlines across the world last year the group was trapped for more than 2 weeks deep inside the flooded cave before divers finally rescued the ordeal was the stuff of hollywood movies and guess what the 1st of these films it's the screen this weekend with director tom wallers the cave premiering in south korea. i already know the real driver of the internet q how would that work to locate. that's when i have
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miles from here the behind a wall in the rescue mission like this ever been attempted it's not unprecedented it's the 1st big screen retelling of m.s. down during a rescue operation. the boys was sedated with mosques and then drac to freedom through kilometers of narrow passage ways. the caves director says his film features some of the many ordinary people who gave up that time and helped 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 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
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acting in the film under their real names. whatever happened in the cave and the feelings that i experienced that it was experienced and the scene was that we saw something that nobody has ever seen you don't 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 screen. i was afraid. i'm always afraid when i go but. manage those fears and overcall those fears is something that humanity really needs. to premiering at the busan international film festival in south korea this weekend the film will go on to. will and it's set to come out in thailand november. and don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just don't load are out from google play or from the up
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