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violence against children. this is g w news wind up from berlin tonight in germany facing up to an unfortunate truth on the day after an attack outside of a synagogue. pieces we'll tell you is today's brutal crime. has shined out whole country still germany's interior minister says yesterday's anti-semitic attack that left 2 people dead confirms that the threat of far right extremist
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terrorism in this country is growing also coming up. just a day after his troops moved into northern syria turkey's president there to one has warned the european union if you dare to criticize what we're doing in syria i will open the gates and flood views with refugee camps and this year's nobel prize in literature goes to a controversial austrian author for his exploration of the human experience and a polish author wins last year's nobel prize for her work touching on the darker chapters of her country's past. and scoring a goal against conservatism iranian women win access to the soccer stadium and are allowed to take their seats at a men's international for the 1st time in almost 40 years.
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to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we start tonight in germany where the government is warning that the threat of nationwide right wing terrorism is now very high this comes after an anti-semitic attack killed 2 people in the eastern town of hala yesterday the attack which was aimed at the city's jewish community fell on the holiest day of the jewish calendar yom kippur war a city in shock halla is grieving off to wednesday's pretend attack. visiting the scene german president trying for to steinmeyer spoke of his horror and revulsion at the acts of a deluded right wing extremist. you can see for miles and think you can about history warns us but the president demands we act in the hotel so i can. the
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missing the point must take a stand through our relationship with the jewish community. today and you just mentioned. chancellor angela merkel attended a vigil in berlin on wednesday evening but she chose to wait until thursday to make a statement on the attack expressing her shock and sadness she promised a strong response from the state so i let you know 1st and foremost this means that the representative of the states and i am standing before you as one of them we must use all the means available to us to take actions against hatred and violence there must be no absolutely no tolerance for that the get the toddler hands. on wednesday a german citizen identified as the far right extremist tried to force his way into hell a synagogue around 70 people were gathered that on the holiest day in the jewish calendar the attack of fired shots at the bolted door but failed to break through. unable to carry out the massacre he had planned for the synagogue the attackers
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shot 2 other people as he fled before police were able to detain him police say they had no formal knowledge of the 27 year old he streamed his actions live on the internet and uploaded a manifesto full of anti semitic rhetoric stefan bay was taken by helicopter to the city of cards who are where the federal public prosecutor has taken over the investigation it's called the attack an act of terrorism the suspect was carrying a large arsenal of weapons to be a buffet. he was heavily armed with multiple weapons which he appeared to have built himself and a large quantity of explosives 4 kilograms of explosives were found in his vehicle alone. in a magnificent. hannah is left stricken with grief but also anger that police were unable to stop an anti semitic hate crime that claimed 2 lives. and
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for more denied them to endure the big table by our political correspondent william lou croft and we heard today from a lot of german political leaders they are sorry about what happened they're concerned about the safety level in the country but what are they planning to do what concrete actions can we talk about tonight i mean mostly it's going to be wait and see as a lot of this is just talk for now i think the most most obvious and immediate thing that we're going to see is more police presence they've already said they're going to beef up police presence already have beefed up police presence around synagogues and jewish institutions that already existed in some german cities and i think we can expect to see that becoming more of a nationwide standard i believe his horse as a whole for the german interior minister who said today that in a press conference now this won't just be a reaction this will be a standard this will be going forward the way things that get done this won't just be something that because we're talking about it right now but as far as other things a lot of talk about controlling internet speech and doing something about all of the hate speech online which on the surface sounds like
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a good thing but we know from attempts in the past both in germany and other western countries that very dicey territory of freedom of expression freedom of speech so we're going to see where that kind of comes comes down and you can see that's the point isn't it that a lot of these young people such as the suspect apparently are radicalized online so how do you prevent that from happening i mean how realistic are the proposals that you're talking about i mean these are proposals that have been you know every time there's an attack like this whether it's target against jews against arabs refugees any kind of minority or even those who support these kinds of groups like we saw the local politician in western germany assassinated earlier this year due to his pro immigrant views we hear a lot of talk about about what are we going to do about far right violence i think we're going to see we have actually we spoke earlier to in holland to the anti semitism commissioner for germany he dresses very question about how realistic this
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might be and i think we can have a look. we have to ask that question every day it's a miracle that we have jewish life in germany again after 945 when after the holocaust it seemed to be impossible for jews to live in germany but we are very happy to have a vibrant jewish life with more than 100 with around 800000 jews being organized and in communities here and another 100000 jews who are from we are not here in organized form so 'd it is it is warranted and of course we have to to verify every day that we are doing enough for the security and for the well being of the jewish community in this country and we have to make it clear you know anti-semitism has always existed even after 945 in germany but now it has once again. grown in the sense that it is more visible the red lines have been pushed in a very bad direction things that would have been thinkable to to
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express even in public are being said now the internet and social media have largely contributed to that and we have to push back these lines because this atmosphere. is very apt to create crimes like we've seen yesterday and what do you think that what would you suggest now in light of this attack here in how. we 1st have to check again whether the existing security measures are enough sufficient then i think we have to check with our laws are adequate particularly when it comes to combating crime in the internet hate hate speech hate crime in the internet i'm very. positive that the minister. announced a package of mit of measures combating that and or bludging the internet to. report
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. cases of incitement and other hate speech themselves to the authorities including also reporting of the ip numbers thank you mr. so that was germany's anti semitism commissioner what do you make of these comments here it struck me the very 1st thing he said was it's a miracle that we have jewish life at all in germany is that is that when this discussion begins that everything is measured by 1945 that we're we're lucky to even have a jew here today it seems that way there's this intense focus on the 12 years of the nazi period in germany there's there's not much that the far right and the majority progressive liberal part of germany agree on but one thing they'd like to both sides focus on is this 12 years now the far right wants to forget about it move on think about other parts of german history think about today and the more progressive side the majority of germans really want to keep focusing on this but
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what's important is that these 12 years don't exist in a vacuum the nazi doesn't exist in a vacuum klein said there's always been anti-semitism even after 945 but as important as has been and doesn't also before 945 and before 9 $133.00 german history didn't begin in $1033.00 and the nazi theory didn't come out of nowhere it was a part of a very complicated history that germany all of these even centuries later is still is still dealing with he also said we need to look at existing security regulations and what strikes me is we know that most jewish institutions have police monitoring 247 most of them but yesterday the synagogue and hala as we understand did not have police protection side and this was during a service the place was full and it was one young kapoor that's i mean from the outside looking in that looks like more than just gross negligence there doesn't it i mean how do you how do you explain that well it's interesting because you know i
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was speaking to people who were in the synagogue yesterday during the attack and they've been there for the entire holiday and they themselves they coming from outside the community actually group of americans were suspicious and were at work curious about why there is so little security but when they asked the members themselves they said. rather nonplussed they said well this is a holiday it's it's not very dangerous they don't seem to notice a threat in today's press conference actually the chief of police there said there's been 5 years without any intelligence tip offs or anything in suggesting there might be anti-semitism so why should we be putting resources to something where there's no actual factual evidence of them is going to understand people would like to live in the reality where the threat is not there you can understand that they would like to have that level of feeling comfortable why though is this issue do you think so vexing for german politicians when we're always talking about the far right enticement isn't always rearing its head again and again i mean far right violence as we think of it today really originated in germany when people
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deal with when white supremacists around the world whether it's christ church whether it's elsewhere other anti-semitic attacks they're often the ref referring to neo to neo nazis and nazi ideology of racial purity all these ideas really took hold in germany and have really shaped an entire global culture of racism from that particular regard in germany is on the hook still to be dealing with these issues and it's about so much more than just a particular law or particular police presence here or there or what a politician who happens to be in power right now can do or say these are fundamental questions that german society that all 80000000 germans each really grapple with about who are we as a people what is does follow what who is in part of that who is not part of that and that's a very very deep and difficult question and the discussion of course becomes more complicated when you've got the internet there and even things that are open to the entire world we would cross as always we appreciate your reporting thank you. all
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right here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world there could be a pathway to a break sit deal that's according to joint statements from the leaders of ireland in the u.k. ireland's for merely over red car and u.k. prime minister boris johnson met on thursday to discuss the country's e.u. departure that scheduled in just 3 weeks time the border between the u.k. and ireland has been a major barrier to a brics a deal into these opposition presidential candidate in the car we has called for a delay in runoff elections which are set for this coming sunday a really was just released from prison just a wednesday and what he called a trumped up charges of money laundering he says he needs time to campaign for. the united states ambassador to the u.n. has warned turkey that it could face consequences if it does nothing to protect civilians as it pushes ahead with its offensive in northern syria now the
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ambassador did not say what those consequences could be but international calls for turkey to moderate its action in the region but those calls are growing thousands of residents fled on thursday as turkey pounded kurdish militia for a 2nd day. and not a day another pounding along the border. towns just inside syria plumes of smoke in areas controlled by the syrian democratic forces who s.d.f. a coalition of kurdish fighters and other militias. kadosh led forces control parts of northern syria right up to the border with turkey the s.d.f. force alongside u.s. troops against islamic state jihad tastes. fleeing for the 2nd time around half a 1000000 people near the border are at risk wants the u.n. refugee agency many are already far from home having come here to escape the
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fighting in other areas of syria turkey wants to push out the kurdish fighters and create a buffer zone that it controls on the syrian side of the border in a fiery speech turkish president at one slammed critics of the plan. really a european union. pull yourself together you know should i say it again if you try to label this operation an invasion. it's very simple we will open the gates and send 3600000 refugees your way richard all to no move to june this is the regular unleaded i. this time in turkey and a possible retaliation turkish state and news agencies say the rockets that hit these towns people came from kaddish held areas on the syrian side of the border
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but it's not just civilian injuries and deaths that are the concern here kaddish forces from the prisons holding islamist fighters from the so-called islamic state these prisoners were captured during the war in syria. died one of the prisons in which the president kept under the control of s.d.s. forces was bombed by turkish warplanes yesterday and probably some of the eye as members have escaped. and these battle hardened kiddish forces who helped contain fighters in syria now face a fresh assault from turkey. elam joins us live here in the big table by christiane hans he is a middle east analyst at the bertelsmann foundation it's going to have you on the show so you know what we're seeing right now is a day after the turkish president since his forces into syria now he's aiming his threats towards the european union saying if you criticize us i'll open the
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floodgates and you will be flooded with refugees why is he doing that and what are you hoping to achieve and we happen to know that the turkish president. laughs very harsh rhetoric especially against against europe. and i think that the turks to block diplomacy did not expect that the 5. member states of the united nations security council where so firm to criticize this military operation and that the statement of the e.u. foreign ministers council this morning was also very harsh to criticize the military operation so so he didn't feel this and he doesn't like the wording of the invasion you know it's for them it's all in his narrative it's a military defend. operation well and not a not an invasion we talked we talked about this last night but if you talk about the definition of invasion i mean he did cross the border into another country yesterday have the kurds in northern syria have they posed
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a security threat to the you know the border integrity of turkey recently it's a very it's a very risky military operation 1st we we just don't know how far this military operation would go 51020 even 30 can a man. this into northern syria on all the 500 kilometers from front border with syria or not we just don't know what would be the reaction of the of the kurdish militias will there be a lot of military confrontation or how many internal displaced people we have to take care of what will happen to the 10000 detainees of the so-called islamic state would watch what's going to happen because we've got the religious or no grant branch we just don't know who is responsible for that we would never be a cause a there to want it or one said that trump the us president had given that responsibility to turkey so is turkey in charge of these isis prisoners now.
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it depends where these prisons are so far we just don't know if the turkish invasion has already kept some of the prisons and all of the camps yes or no for the time being they are under kurdish militias. occupation and but there is a responsibility there is a responsibility of the west and of europe because there are some of the fighters are having holding european passports there is a responsibility our military has bombed the areas of iraq and others in the in the east of northeast of syria so there is a western responsibility to recover the area and to help to rebuild the area and this is not just on the burden of the u.s. so there's an argument about trump is right he has been trying since half a year to convince the europeans to help him to step in into this area in order to rebuild the area of north east of syria and so far no success in those attempts christiane with the verbals been foundationless and we appreciate your time in your
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insights tonight thank you pleasure. he inspired hong kong protesters to stand up to beijing and he emerged as the spiritual leader of the city's pro-democracy movement but edward has not been seen in public in months he was convicted on rioting charges and is serving a prison sentence to double use once he has berlingo reports on attempts to get that conviction overturned. they're waiting to get a glimpse of one of their heroes edward long a local politician who's been sentenced to 6 years in prison for participating in a riot he's now seeking an appeal. you see inspirational this. 2 days like this one to support his whole us to astley's all the ways through it's all tourist turn outs now we assimilated governments didn't act also
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yes they still act that's if these walls that's got but it's actually we kind of denied us still they. abolished it though. the extradition bill that motivated the protests was withdrawn in september the chanting long slogan liberate hong kong revolution of our times the protests have morphed into a broader anti-government movement and some of the protesters have turned increasingly violent. but a long wait and just a brief look at long for his supporters that court he became famous when he was banned from running in district council elections because he advocated for hong kong's independence a red line for beijing and also many hong kong ors peoples my need to be change. they need to recognize the software always been known to them but not by belong to to beijing or man. has sense toned down his rhetoric in july he
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sent a letter from prison asking the protesters to stay rational and not to be driven by their he tried however to the young and radical he remains a hero. but here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in ecuador thousands of indigenous people have gathered for more protests in the capital it's the 7th day of nationwide demonstrations that have frequently involve clashes with riot police the president has already evacuated his administration from the capital the end rest was originally inspired by cuts to fuel subsidies and other all stare at the measures to associates of u.s. president donald trump's lawyer rudy giuliani have been arrested ukrainian born lev parness and bella rusin igor freeman are charged with funneling foreign money to u.s. political candidates the $2.00 helped introduce giuliani to ukrainian officials and have been called as witnesses in the impeachment inquiry that's being mounted
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against president trump. the nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 2 authors. from austria claimed this year's award and poland's oga to carcetti took it for 2018 the unusual delay was due to a sexual assault scandal at the royal swedish academy. off to the swedish academy's crisis is now making his 1st major appearance the new permanent secretary an ounce to prize winners today austrian pita hand could take the wood for 20192 of his most well known works offending the audience and the goalkeeper's fear of the penalty but the highly praised 76 year old feels that his readers judgment is the most important as he said in this 2017 interview for me to be it for me it's about the readers who want to people say how they read or heard something just to see. the spirit moves me. but of course an award is
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a nice bonus. hunka is not uncontroversial politically during the war in yugoslavia he not only showed littery support for then president milosevic he also attended his funeral but that didn't play a role for the committee but. even him the prize is a matter of course he's a great artist with 70 to 80 of his works in various genres a great creative ability that continues on broken. polish right to olga to celebrated surprising success with her novel the books of jacob she received the 2800 prize richer actively cannot get different what she really does well the themes that crosspost this she writes across photos and that's clear even in her style. from where you start the performance they will and she's crossing borders at the moment on a book tour in germany. well thousands of women in tehran are happily hoarse after spending the day doing something that they haven't been allowed to do since
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the iranian revolution of 1979 they were cheering on the iranian national football team from in sa yes inside the stadium the men won their match against cambodia the female fans say they reached a more significant goal in their fight against conservatives. you can khalidi ransford park revolution silenced for decades these women were ready to make some noise. 3500 women brought tickets to the country's world cup qualifier against cambodia a 1st since the samak evolution of 1979 no one of these he made hand showed up ahead of the match was that it's a very nice feeling an incredible feeling something that cannot be described it was a hope to give oh it's a very good feeling it's
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a great thing i hope it will be repeated because women need to come to the stadium for happiness and to support that scene. but not everyone agrees with the lifting of the ban some religious hot line has met the decision with protests. during in government partially lifted the ban on women in football stadiums for world cup qualifiers after pressure from world governing body fifi who threatened to exclude the asian nation from the 2022 world cup in qatar the women still sit in different sections than the men but for now they are happy to claim the step as a victory. all right here's a reminder the top stories that we're following for you germany's interior minister horst as a whole. anti-semitic attack which killed 2 people in the eastern city of hala has quote shamed germany says it's time to face an unfortunate truth that the threat of
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anti-semitism and right wing terrorism in the country is nil very. turkey's president has lashed out at the international criticism of his offensive in northeastern syria he singled out. today which has called on him to cease his offensive by threatening to send millions of syrian refugees to europe. you're watching the w. news longer from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day to go elsewhere that will grow into.
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a man since the bottom has won 1st and it's masculine when i moved to germany as a 10 year old i want to come to him on t.v. and that would change how i see the world because in germany the side of his family . found fame now but the side of a girl is so much time in a ponytail instead of a deep voice exterminate the guy who seems absolutely. incredible. how we live how they went st thinking how to finish something fine not only mentality may just put out a whole perception of the role. in 5 states my life and was one of the reasons i became and joined as a mystery talent and i use my life to help with intercultural on this and my name is in one way and i wouldn't get up to. unity and justice and freedom the 1st words of the german national and.
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3 central values that form the foundation of this country. have these values develop to. parties it to live by and defend the principles of unity justice and freedom in our everyday lives. our journey through our series starts october 21st t.w. . it could have been a bloodbath for all the world to see he had everything that he needed the ammunition and the hate prosecutors here in germany you say the 27 year old man in custody intended to wide stream a mass murder from inside a crowded synagogue tonights and eyewitness tells me what she saw and heard when the door of that synagogue was all that stood between pray.
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