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philippines. starts october 24th. this is. from berlin tonight in germany facing up to an unfortunate truth on the day after an attack outside of a synagogue. uses yesterday's brutal crime. has shamed whole country with. germany's interior minister says yesterday's attack which left 2 people dead confirms that the threat of far right extremist terrorism in this
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country is growing also coming up. just a day after his troops moved into northern syria turkey's president has warned the european union if you dare to criticize what we're doing in syria i will open the gate and flood you with refugees. scoring a goal against conservatism iranian women with 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. i'm good to have you with us we start tonight here 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 on
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wednesday the attack at the city's jewish community fell on the holiest day in the jewish calendar yom kippur. a city in shock collar is grieving after wednesday's brutal 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 see them on board and you can go history warns us but the president demands we act smoked on talking. we're missing the we must take a stand through our relationship with the jewish community. to mention. 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
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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 get this kind of tolerance. on wednesday a german citizen identified as the far right extremist tried to force his way into hell a synagogue around 70 people work out that that on the holiest day in the jewish calendar they attack a 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 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
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to the city of cars 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 should he have a buffet. he was heavily armed with multiple weapons which he appeared to have built himself with and a large quantity of explosives 4 kilograms of explosives were found in his vehicle alone off into something official. halla is left stricken with grief but also anger that police were unable to stop an anti semitic hate crime that claimed 2 lives. on the w spoke to germany's anti-semitism commissioner felix klein about the attack in holland yesterday he says that social media is playing a significant role in the resurgence of anti-semitism and right wing extremism here in germany we have to make it clear you know anti-semitism has always existed even
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after $945.00 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 to express in the public are being said now the internet and social media have largely contributed to that. are they going to like to impact their lives pulling our political correspondent william glue croft so we 1st of all what do you make about what the commissioner said there are about you know the fight against anti-semitism here in germany it's part of a long debate that we've been hearing for a long time in germany not only from the anti-semitism commission we also heard this from horse a offer today in the press conference we've heard from times before when there's been acts of racial far right or anti-semitic violence that specifically focused on online speech and internet speech there's so much hate speech out there that's
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become a worldwide phenomenon that creates and then copycats and then recreates back to the border and it doesn't stop at the border and the problem is we're getting we're running right up into a very blurry area a gray zone of free speech freedom of expression do we really want our government our law enforcement agencies monitoring all of our internet speech or take choosing what can stay and what can go because lone wolfs like this regardless of how they've been spired by the wider society commit acts of violence is a very deep philosophical question about that democrat democracies have to have to confront what do you think of. anti-semitism in the far right violence why are the particularly difficult here in germany to combat we heard from felix klein in that sound bite that. exists in germany also after 1945 with remember it also existed before 945 and before 933 before hitler had anything to do with with
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germany this is this is a very fundamental problem and challenge in the very identity and the founding of germany as a modern state as the founding of the german people dust folk going back more than 200 years so this is much more about the 12 years of the nazi period but really about the very essence of what it means to be german what it means to have a german state especially now in a post-holocaust period as a liberal western democracy who's in who's out to a good point when blue cross does always we thank you very much. or here's 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 a joint statement from the leaders of ireland and the u.k. ireland's for merely over redcar and the u.k. prime minister boris johnson met on thursday to discuss the country's emu departure which is scheduled in just 3 weeks time the border between the u.k. and ireland has been a major barrier to a break deal for the united in tunisia opposition presidential
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candidates now bialek how we has called for a delay and runoff elections are set for this coming sunday curry was just released from prison just on wednesday on what he calls trumped up charges of money laundering he says he now needs time to campaign. the united states ambassador to the united nations has more in turkey that it could face consequences if it does nothing to protect civilians as it pushes ahead with its offensive in northern syria the ambassador however did not say what those consequences could be but international calls for turkey to moderate its action in the region they are growing thousands of residents fled on thursday as turkey pounded kurdish militia for a 2nd day. and
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not a day another pounding along the border. towns just inside syria plumes of smoke and 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.t.'s fought 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 un refugee agency but many are already far from home having come here to escape the 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
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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 if you dalton your 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 kurdish held areas on the syrian side of the border 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. one of the prisons in which
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the president kept under the control of s.d.s. forces was done by turkish warplanes yesterday and probably some of the members have escaped. and these battle hardened kiddish forces who helped contain fighters in syria now face a fresh assault from turkey. the nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 2 authors from austria claimed this year's award and poland took our check to get 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 peta had to take the wood for 20192 of his most well known works offending the audience and the goalkeepers fear of the penalty but the highly praised 76 year old feels that his readers judgment is the
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most important as he said in this 2017 interview for me comes on after this 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 a nice bonus. hunka is not uncontroversial politically during the war in yugoslavia he not only showed literally support for then president milosevic he also attended his funeral but that didn't play a role for the committee. 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 price retroactively. can i get different what she really does well a theme that cross-posting this she writes across villages and that's clear even in
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her style tell us more from where you start the performance they will and she's crossing borders at the moment on a book tool in germany. thousands of women in tehran spent the day doing something that's been banned since the iranian revolution of 1979 cheering on the iranian football team from inside the stadium now the men's team beat cambodia but the female fans they claimed a bigger victory in their fight against conservatives. you can call it iran's football revolution silenced for decades these women were ready to make some noise . 3500 women grok tickets to the country's world cup qualifier against cambodia the 1st since the sonic revolution of 1979 no one of these he made fans showed up ahead of the match . it's
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a very nice feeling an incredible feeling something that cannot be described. below it's a very good feeling it's a great thing and i hope it will be repeated because women need to come to the stadium for happiness and to support that scene in the summer. but not everyone agrees with the lifting of the ban some religious hotline has met the decision with protests. fearing him government partially lifted the ban on women in football stadiums for world cup qualifiers after pressure from world governing body 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. you're watching news live from berlin up next business stephen will be here for that stick around the wreck that.
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