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you. know. this is deja vu news live from berlin unprecedented mass protests in chile after a 1000000 take to the streets of the capital santiago and elsewhere in the south american country to the biggest rallies yet in a week of protests in which at least 19 people have died also shot. in a blow to president in trouble u.s. federal court rules the house impeachment inquiry is legal and the justice department must give democrats a full copy of the miller report into russian election meddling and. germany's far
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right looks set to make gains in a regional election this weekend for me to be told government without the party could prove difficult. a michael thanks for joining us. across chil a massive crowds have taken to the streets for a 7th day of anti-government protest demonstrators calling for economic reforms and the resignation of president sebastian pinera the capital santiago saw by far the largest demonstration. a march such to go down in the history books as possibly the largest ever seen in chile an estimated 1000000 demonstrators converged on downtown santiago bringing traffic to a standstill as crowds made their way to central plaza italia. protesters vented
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anger over low wages and pensions inequality and the rising cost of education and health care their fury has been fanned by president sebastian pinera response to a week of unrest imposing a state of emergency and night time curfews protesters called on him to listen up or resign i. just don't have the made up and it is the 1st thing the president has to do is get the military off the streets and change the cabinet and he needs to ensure that there are conscious people making statements to the country that are consistent with what people want with listening to the people lots all that president pinera has already promised social reform measures and in the face of friday's record breaking rally he took to twitter stating we have all listened to the message we have all changed. but his post is unlikely to quell public anger as night fell violence erupted once again with demonstrators fighting pitched
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battles against police on the streets of santiago. correspondent john bartlet has been covering the demonstrations for us from the capital santiago he told us more about the protesters demands. it's incredible to think that just a week ago people were obviously all kind of hall bringing these feedings and nobody had really kind of nice to kind of put them into any kind of coherent form to really kind of come out on and say anything to take in this kind of on masses we're seeing at the moment. the main demand at the moment for a lot of people i saw this evening was for a new constitution whether that's like a constituent assembly is realistic i think it's the basically. people demanding kind of political casualties as well the interior minister andres chadwick the cousin of the president is going to talk given all of the people have been saying that they want to see the preston. to be to resign i think. that's
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perhaps a little funds of what they think that's going to happen is a democratically elected president in less than 2 years in the election so i think it's i think that people really want to see profound change not kind of completely across the board people are kind of sick of the model. that chile has been laboring under for such a long time now so it would say exactly the kind of the one thing that people want to see but i think it's just kind of profound change across across so many different areas and i didn't ministration listens to people truly feels and this is a true feeling that she wants to talk inequality here. in washington the attempt to impeach president donald trump has scored a victory democrats will get a full copy of the report into russian meddling in the 2016 election sensitive parts of the report were originally blacked out but now u.s. court has ruled that a full copy of the document should be given to the house of representatives judiciary committee it's widely expected that the department of justice will appeal
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against the decision the miller investigation found that russia had work to disrupt the 2016 president presidential election to undermine the democratic candidate hillary clinton. for more we spoke to our washington correspondent public fully ilya. well this latest twist is a big victory for the democrats it gives validity to the ongoing impeachment inquiry against president trump and chief u.s. district judge beryl how dismissed the administration's arguments for withholding materials from congress and one of those adamant is that there was a need to keep the information secret even though the motor investigation has ended the judge also said that the department of justice is claims that it couldn't provide grand jury material was wrong and claims by the white house and some republicans that a formal vote was needed for impeachment was also deemed incorrect she said it had
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never been required what's unclear is how much new material related to the president is actually contained in the grand jury transcripts which have to be turned over by october 30th now what we do know is that material covered by george howell includes redacted grand jury material mentioned in miller's report but it could reveal previously hidden details about trump's actions during the 2016 election and that could become part of the push to impeach him and president trump took to twitter as expected on friday where he once again called the impeachment inquiry a scam and a witch hunt and this latest development it must be noted colmes as it was revealed this week by media here in the united states that a criminal inquiry has been launched by the department of justice into the arjun's of the mauler inquiry so another busy week here in this ongoing inquiry. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in iraq at least 30
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people are dead after police fired at government demonstrators at several protests are protests across the country crowds gathered in cities including baghdad and bezerra and set fire to around 50 official buildings they were. want the government to resign and are calling for anti corruption reforms. in ethiopia 2 days of protests have left $67.00 people dead including 5 police officers the demonstrations began as a standoff at an activists home then they spread the protesters are challenging the rule of a man who won the nobel peace prize this month. protests have continued in bolivia after president evo morales was declared the winner of last weekend's elections despite allegations of fraud critics called the election rigged following an unexplained 24 hour pause in vote count the united nations also backs an independent audit of the vote. the head of the world jewish congress
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ronald lauder has visited the german city of holland weeks after a gunman killed 2 people while trying to break into a synagogue there lot his visit comes amid new or signs of a rise in anti semitism in germany on monday he will present chancellor angela merkel an award for her commitment to fighting all of that. germany's foreign minister is set to meet his turkish counter but may have to sell in n. korea today for talks on this situation in syria the discussion is likely to be a difficult one with germany and turkey at odds over anchor's inclusion into northern syria to fight kurdish militia heavies visited moscow told turkey it had to stick to the cease fire and protect civilians in the region that prompted. not to tell to tell germany not to tell turkey what to do.
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for more on this i'm joined in the studio by deed foreign policy editor said a cigar said i have to ask you what is on moss's agenda well. we know that the agreement reached between turkey and russia in sochi is currently underway so from us it's really important for the ceasefire to continue so that's going to be one of the main topics the other issues of of course going to be the refugee issue we know that president on wants to relocate at least $1000000.00 refugees that are currently living in turkey to the zone that turkey is controlling in northern syria which is 120 meters wide and 120 kilometers wide and 32 kilometers deep and yet no police so basically that's going to be one of the main topics because germany wants turkey to abide by international law while making
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such plans about the refugees so germany has proposed establishing an internationally monitored security zone in northern syria how realistic is that well of course according to german defense minister this is a very realistic scenario but we don't know the details about this and we know that in the recent nato defense ministers meeting in brussels that according to the nato secretary general the nato allies are have very different views concerning this but what is clear is that all members agree on one thing and then. has to be a lasting and a sustainable solution in syria how has turkey responded to the german proposal well turkey has been calling for a safe zone for many many years now and what we know is that turkey is turkey said that they're open to the idea of having a u.n. mission in the region but again we don't know the details of this of this plan but what's really important is actually we see after the sochi meeting that turkey and russia have gotten closer just one day after the meeting russia news agency said that that they would be there they could deliver more as $400.00 air missile
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defense systems to turkey so we see these 2 countries getting closer this is of course not good for nato and so you will have to see how nato deals with turkey getting close with russia do you have you say this are thank you so much. voters in the german state of syringes go to the polls tomorrow in an election that shape shaping up into another crucial test for chancellor angela merkel's c.d.u. party. was part of the former east germany before reunification in 1990 it's the only german state with a governing coalition headed by the left party the far right if he has been polling strongly and could overtake the conservatives as the state's number 2 party behind the post communist left party. this man could be the winner 3 in just a premier boat a ram a low of the left party leads the opinion polls he hopes to win with public
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transport more teachers and free education from kindergarten to university. oh no fees at university then why should there be fees when children go to school in the nordic education system is the stone that's most important that means that at the outset what matters is that no child is left behind the conservative cd used lead candidate mike moring is hoping for a change of government in interviews he's been adamant that he will not work with the left party or the far right. because it's not what we want through engines to know that the state needs a stable government and we will not be able to cope with experiments a minority government or even an acting government. it's unclear who moring wants to form this stable government with the business friendly f.t.p. is still fighting for entry into the state parliament the greens and social democrats want to work with the left party. meanwhile the far right
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a f t's leading candidate. is relying on a radical migration policy via we want to create a culture of saying farewell to illegal immigrants we want to make the engine as unattractive as possible for. a sunday around 1700000 voters in theory will decide what constellation of parties will form the state's new government. a skateboarder from munich wants to represent lebanon at the 2020 tokyo lympics. has lived in germany his entire life and only goes to visit relatives in lebanon once a year where there isn't any skateboarding culture the 28 year old wants to change that by qualifying for state boarding at the summer games. is one of only 2 skateboarders hoping to represent lebannon at tokyo 2020 when the sport makes its debut at the olympics he wants its popularity to spread you know it's been pretty bone i'm going. over i want to represent lebanon and also to support
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the skateboarding scene that. i don't think there's a real skate park in the whole of lebanon and when i visited the lebanese olympic committee they promised to help me carry out projects that because skateboarding is really easy you only need a skateboard park because no one skateboard with ambitions of reaching the olympics could charge also wants to become a role model for the sport in lebanon he's been training day and night to qualify and every time he masters a new trick he feels one step closer to tokyo. because it's an unbelievable feeling the most beautiful feeling i know and you gain a lot of recognition when you succeed it's not easy it's not easy you have to fight but skateboarding is a good example for life but always persevered and if you for you get up that's how life is you know sources maybe the best thing skateboarding qualification starts in
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