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this is g.w. news a live from berlin unprecedented mass protests in chile up to a 1000000 take to the streets of the capital santiago and elsewhere in the south american country there the biggest rallies yet in a week of protests in which at least 19 people have died also on the show. and a blow to president trump a u.s. federal court rules the house impeachment inquiry is legal and that the justice department must give democrats a full copy of the old report into russian election metal. and germany's far right
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they have to look set to make gains in a regional election this weekend and forming a new regional government with the party could prove difficult. a michael thanks for joining us across chil a massive crowds have taken to the streets for 7th day of anti-government protest demonstrators are calling for economic reforms and the resignation of president sebastian pinera the side of the largest demonstration by far was in the capital santiago. 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 found 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. you're going to be made up of 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 that's 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 bartlett has been covering the demonstrations for us from the capital santiago he elaborated on the protestors demands it's incredible to think that just a week ago people were obviously all kind of hall bringing these feelings and nobody had really kind of nice to kind of put them into any kind of coherent form to really kind of come out. and say anything to be in this kind of on mass 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 basic. people are also demanding kind of political casualties as well the interior minister andres chadwick the cousin of the president is going to talk at a lot of people sitting saying that they want to see the preston. to be to resign i
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think. that's the hospital fanciful i don't think that's going to happen if the democratically elected president in less than 2 years in the elections so i think it's i think 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 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 ministration listens to people truly feels and this is a true feeling that she wants to talk inequality here in china. in washington the attempt to impeach president donald trump has scored a victory democrats will get a full copy of the miller report into russian meddling in the 2016 election sensitive parts of the report were originally blacked out but now a u.s. court has ruled that a full copy of the document should be given to the house of representatives
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judiciary committee it's widely expected that the department of justice will appeal against the decision the motor investigation found that russia had worked to disrupt the 2016 presidential election to undermine the democratic candidate hillary clinton. for more we spoke to our washington correspondent public ileus 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 minors 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 the 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 must be noted combs 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 anti-government demonstrators at several protests across the country crowds gathered in cities including baghdad and basra and set fire to around 50 official buildings they want the government to resign and calling for anti corruption reforms. the head of the world jewish congress ronald lauder has visited the german city of holland weeks after gunmen killed 2 people while trying to break into a synagogue there lot his visit comes amid numerous signs of a rise in anti semitism in germany on monday he will present chancellor angela merkel an award for her commitment to fighting. thousands of l.g.b. t.q. people and their supporters have arrived at taipei city hall for this year's edition of taiwan pride parade 2019 this year marks the 1st event and parade held since same sex marriage was legalized in may this year. germany's foreign
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minister heiko mosse is set to meet his church's counterpart. in ankara today for talks on the situation in syria the discussion is likely to be a difficult one with germany and turkey at odds over anchor's incursion into northern syria to fight kurdish militia ahead of his visit mosque told turkey it had to stick to the cease fire and protect civilians in the region that prompted shover shola to warn germany not to tell turkey what to do or. for more on this i'm joined in the studio by 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 and 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
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refugee issue we know that president are 2 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 a 120 meters why 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 such plans about the refugees so germy is 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 there has to be a lasting and a sustainable solution in syria how has turkey responded to the german proposal
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well turkey has been calling for a safe zone for many many years now and what we know is that turkey is turkey 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 defense systems to turkey so we see these 2 countries getting closer this is of course not good for nato and so yeah we'll have to see how nato deals with turkey getting closer with russia if you do if you say disorder thank you so much. voters in the german state of 300 go to the polls tomorrow in an election that shaping up into a nother crucial task for chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. party syringe was part of the former east germany before reunification in 1900 it's
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the only german state with a governing coalition headed by the left party the far right a f d 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 syringe a state premier boat around the left party leads the opinion polls he hopes to win with public transport more teachers and free education from kindergarten to university. no fees at university then why should there be fees when children go to school in the nordic education system is the stuff 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 always wants their engines to
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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. does god it's unclear who wants to form this stable government with the business friendly f.d.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 a f t's leading candidate. is relying on a radical migration policy. we want to create a culture of saying farewell to illegal immigrants we want to make the engine as unattractive as possible for the. sunday around 1700000 voters in thuringia will decide what constellation of parties will form the state's new government. a state border from munich wants to represent lebanon at the 2020 tokyo limpets. has lived in germany his entire life and only goes to visit relatives in lebanon once
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a year where there isn't any skateboarding culture the 28 year old wants to change that by qualifying for skateboarding at the summer games. and is one of only 2 skateboarders hoping to represent lebanon at tokyo 2020 when the sport makes its debut at the olympics he wants its popularity to spread. oh i want to represent lebanon and also to support the skateboarding scene that. i don't think that'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 project. because skateboarding is really easy. you only need a skateboard. 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
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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 is the best thing skateboarding qualification starts in may and there are 80 spots available for the 2020 summer olympics. well it sounds like a stunt from the hollywood movie a diamond worth $1800000.00 was reported stolen in japan the 50 carat diamond vanish thursday from the convention center in yokohama south of tokyo it was on display at an international jury exhibition the police is investigating. you're watching the news from berlin coming up culture in all of its facets stay
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