this is news coming to you live from berlin voters in the u.k. will choose a new government on december 12th after lawmakers back a snap election. the right 438 good news for the last 20. the motion passes by huge majority in parliament will go to london to find out what this means for break up also coming up lebanon's prime minister saad hariri steps down after 2 weeks of political protests some protesters

say career his departure is not enough to satisfy their demands. a rare moment of joy as friends find each other in a refugee camp they fled to turkey from persians in northern syria and a huge question mark now hangs over their future. as russia remembers the victims of the stalin's purges of 80 years ago we meet a man who has on earth the mass graves in his backyard. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program the log jam in britain's parliament has broken after almost 2 and a half years of wrangling calls by a government that has no majority lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved of prime minister boris johnson's call for a snap election on december 12th it will likely center on britain's departure from the european union with johnson hoping to secure

a majority to finally get his bragg's a deal done the vote may be the last chance for british voters to have their say on the issue. finally something they could agree on britain needs a shake up. the our eyes to the right 438 the nose to the left at 20 so the eyes have it the ayes have it it was a moment of near unanimity and the most devoted of parliamentary seats. there is only one way to restore the esteem in which our democracy is held and to recover the respect to which parliament should be held by the people of this country and that is finally to offer also to the judgment of the people of this country and i have to say johnson slipping fresh elections deliver him a majority to force through breaks it once and for all his opponent however will be

campaigning on other issues labor backs a general election because we want this country to be rid of these reckless and destructive conservative government. or government putting a government that has caused more of our children to be living in poverty more pensioners to be in poverty and more people to be in work poverty. such themes may contrast with the mood in what will be the 1st christmas election since 1923 politicians have a job on their hands ring a weary electorate more preoccupied with shopping. and i just i think disillusioned is the west putting a lot of pressures paid to the situation saying something's got to be right because i'm sick and tired is that most of the population of this country is sick and tired of brecht's that. patience is running out no with polls showing this election could

result in another divided parliament the season of giving may well threw up some unexpected surprises. let's bring in our london correspondent better get my ass back at how is a fresh election supposed to help settle the breaks that question. well from the government's point of view they haven't been able to get their breaths and politics through parliament pala been has been dogging their heels and they have forced prime minister bros johnson for example to ask the european union for yet another extension parliament really wanted to make sure that there is no leaving the european union without any deal and they have been very strong so those people who support that would say that parliament has been really doing its job very well however the government also saying that parliament is dead because they can't get there with 3 so they want to get

a majority and then they want to be able to push their bricks of policy through and we know that boris johnson will campaign in this upcoming election to get the u.k. out of the e.u. as soon as possible but what about the other parties what about jeremy corbin and his labor party yes a little bit more difficult labor has long been criticized as not having a clear breaks a policy however what they are now saying is that if they form the next government they would go to brussels and ask for a better deal so they would basically start the negotiations again and have what they call a credible breaks a deal which they would then put forward to a referendum so that's that breaks a policy however they're also going to campaign on other issues they are strong under investigation is stronger i think than on their brakes of policies were they for example are credible with voters when it comes to health they also have a fairly radical left wing new policy such as renationalisation of various public

services so they're going to be campaigning on that as well then we've got the liberal democrats and they are really very clear in their breasts of policy they want to reverse it and they want to remain in the european union and what can we expect from nigel for russia and his brakes at party could he end up grabbing votes the might otherwise have gone to johnson's conservatives. he will be a huge headache for boris johnson and his conservative party because they have been doing everything they can that have been you can say as hard line as possible in their breaks of policies as they can in order to not give any more credibility to niger faraj however they have failed you could argue in a way because they haven't been able to get britain out of the european union at the end of october and they have always maintained do or die that this will to happen so this is where nigel faraj can come in and we know he's

a very strong campaigner effectively with his new breakfast at party he's been campaigning for the last months and i've seen him on rallies he's really able to gather the momentum many former conservative voters have gathered behind him and have said that they are next election going to vote for niger for us so a winter vote close to christmas the 3rd election in 5 years or voters in the u.k. looking forward to that well you've already had had it in your piece a lot of 8 is really wary they don't really want to have anything anymore to do with threats that they don't want to also have another election but this is being thrown upon them and i think they will in the end have to do it and people do feel strongly particularly about drugs and so i think a lot of people will in the end come out and vote big thank you very much state obvious big it must there in london. now to some of the other stories making

headlines around the world today thousands of anti-government demonstrators have taken to the streets in chile's capital santiago for a 12th day of protests demonstrators clashed with police who used tear gas and water cannons the protesters are demanding greater equality and better public services. the u.s. army officer a u.s. army officer says he heard donald trump press ukraine's leader to investigate his democratic rival joe biden colonel alexander all was old was so worried that he reported the phone call in is the 1st white house staffer to testify in the impeachment inquiry against president trump. ukraine and russian backed separatists have agreed to start pulling their forces back from the front lines in eastern ukraine them and representatives from the organization for security and cooperation in europe helping go she ate the deal and are monitoring the withdrawal both sides hope the move will help restart stalled peace process. facebook is suing the

israeli surveillance group n.s.o. for allegedly using whatsapp to spy on lawyers journalists and human rights activists facebook says and has so exploited a flaw in it's what's happened to jing service and a'sssos website says it applies strict ethical standards for now to northern syria where the ceasefire has officially ended the deal was agreed last week by turkey and russia calling for kurdish militias to retreat from the borders and russian officials say kurdish forces have completed their withdrawal earlier than planned turkey says it will bear upon the withdrawal in joint patrols with russian troops and meanwhile violence has flared in the region for the 1st time since turkey's offensive. thousands of kurdish refugees have fled northern syria since turkey launched that incursion many have ended up in camps in neighboring iraq hama and her daughter

lyin are looking for a neighbor they lost track of when they fled northern syria they've been combing the park refugee camp in iraq for the past 3 days. i. know that their water or you're. the one. i live on the 112 that the world. wildlife service i'm happy she's my neighbor my aunts my mother everything i love her and her daughter very much we're always together fuck her husband mohammed and their 2 daughters survived the turkish military offensive they say it was a gift from god. it was you ordered war going on and just came out of the turkish army didn't invade commercially it just bombed the city from the other side of the border we fled our houses very close to the border our children were afraid the bombing was indiscriminate people die i love you with jani when i asked my new

and now turkish president her to one is planning to resettle a 1000000 syrian refugees from turkey in northern syria. as well. as really forcing some people out in order to make room for others is not acceptable. the barda rush camp in northern iraq is overfilled the syrian refugees are being brought here in buses from the syrian iraqi border the turkish military incursion took many residents by surprise the refugees were not able to bring much with them. mohammad fetches water he's afraid that he and his family will have to stay put here a long time after all the occupying turkish forces are cooperating with the free syrian army which includes many radical islamists in its ranks. who will the new if the turks and the free army stay we can't go there. where

afraid because they're cooperating with our yes they're letting us fighters move through their territory move forward to dawson and i do. feel like hopes that her family will be able to return home again one day she wants to be a role model for her daughter she doesn't want to let turkey's resettlement plans for her. counties the fact that oh if they came they'd be welcome if they have no homes i take the mending give them something to eat and drink it doesn't matter if they're arabs currents christians or muslims we're all syrians or the way out of a squad just for fun not the worst thing about being displaced is that her children will not be able to go to school again for a long time and opportunities could pass them by car. protesters in lebanon have been celebrating the resignation of prime minister saad hariri and

his government are very announced on tuesday that he was stepping down following nearly 2 weeks of mass demonstrations they've been fueled by anger over rising living costs and frustration with the country's sectarian form of government but for departure is unlikely to bring calm to the country the protesters are demanding more sweeping changes. career is gone but the demonstrators remain 1000 stayed on the street into the night at the main protest camp close to the prime minister's headquarters they see her recent as a good nation as a victory but for them it is just the 1st step basically on the part of the of their we're going to say that we need the tools we need to start with the would be it would be a government bigger to work it will be with this not just the fact that the demonstration was to change still insist that mopping the that was the end by political parties might affect it. early protesters celebrated the moments of

the 1st big changes to the political system was prime minister hariri announced to the nation that he was stepping down and a sort of of them i am going to the presidential palace to submit the government's resignation to president michel and to people in all regions in response to the will of the many lebanese people who have taken to the streets to demand change. but there are powerful forces in lebanon who are against the change the protesters are demanding. therefore hariri announce his resignation supporters of the shiite muslim political movements hezbollah and amal rampage through the main protest camp . lose the war so violence since protests started nearly 2 weeks ago. activists are back at that camp on are determined to continue their fight. a

reraise departure has lifted their spirits but it may not be enough to end the country's turmoil. those protests in lebanon were triggered by a tax plan that has now been withdrawn but the country's problems run much deeper lebanon is at the center of one of the world's most volatile regions bordering israel and syria both of those countries conflicts frequently affect lebanon then there's the country's struggling economy lebanon is deeply in debt its debt to g.d.p. ratio is 153 percent the world's 3rd highest and you thought employment is 37 percent together the faith failing economy and the refugee crisis are putting pressure on public services chronic problems with electricity the water supply and garbage collection problems for which demonstrators blame the government. the other

big issue is corruption lebanon is ranked $138.00 out of $180.00 on transparency international's corruption index and the country's intricate sectarian political system only complicates matters. order of mirrors sectarian divisions in the country the rules dictate that every major religion is represented but critics say this builds sectarian division into the fabric of. correspondent. is in lebanon's capital beirut he's been covering the story all along for a spot so what impact is president hariri resignation expected to have on the protest movement. as you mentioned in your previous post it's hard to say. old people just didn't taking the streets squares in downtown beirut but one of the think positive thing they said that ignition the

government they're going to do the same. positive it's one of these positive it's taking. the going to move all the street they're going to be open the main streets in the major cities in beirut but they are going to take in downtown beirut. for the slide that is the nation. months so given. that we saw so much violence there on monday how volatile or yesterday rather how volatile is the situation in lebanon right now. in fact that the opening of some main roads the. 'd a.f.u. but he's armed forces just. this is you. that the you the also the old if it justice.

they. meant the amount of. the situation. and this is one of the main issues. in the economy right now trying. to mend. the road seem to be some of the. seem to be clearing halls of thing what's the next step in a new government. it's something easy. i'm. going to be take the office of the crime and.

it's. all. old. and negative so we. can be named to take the office again maybe. we. ought to. do the name. but it seems that it's not that easy because. some other candidates that might take the lead in the office. thank you very much for that was. joining us from beirut thank you. activists in russia have been remembering the hundreds of thousands of people killed in the

stalinist purges of the 1930 s. protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the state security service which carried out the purges to read the names of the victims but far away from moscow close to the chinese border our correspondent met a man who has unearthed the remains of people killed in those purges in his own back garden. spot what ifs look at this hole here says we tell me kasha and shows is the grizzly find on his property. at the well i want to do is stand my house here while i was digging the hole for the foundations i found 1st one skull then a 2nd a 3rd and so on and what were you. in the meantime for tally has more than 10 sacks if human bones in his garden. a government commission says they come from a mass grave dating back to the 1930 s. . teddy lives with his family in the far east of russia.

the city on the chinese border saw mass executions join the stalinist purges the period known by people as the great tara 'd. the same time 8000 kilometers where the people of moscow are remembering the victims about tara. they tell the stories of their fathers and uncles grandfathers and great uncles the stories of their families persecuted by stalin between 19361938 i suppose enemies of the regime. my grandfather was arrested and tortured says this woman they knocked his teeth out. flooded may have been the cause ski he was 76 years old rest in peace. one and a half 1000000 soviet citizens were arrested in only 2 years half of them were killed in a ceremony as part of

a national event which was instigated by the human rights organization memore ial 12 years ago. i'm happy that's a lot of people have come here especially young russians to remember the terror of the soviet regime we should never forget our terrible history look at that and when he does there's a bill let's see. many see the fact that the commemoration is taking place in front of the headquarters of the russian secret service the f.s.b. a symbolic. critics of russian president vladimir putin a former head of the f.s.b. fear a return to a more all socratic government a more and more people who commemorate the crimes of the past face intimidation they would know that the police 3 years ago we were accused of being foreign agents but we kept on anyway because a lot of people depend on us that's the most important. literally clash or has repeatedly asked the authorities

a block of ashamed for help in dealing with the remains in his garden. where there were still i've asked them for the past year or much of the birth and they say they don't have the money or the stuff but. the only thing they promised was to come and pick up the remains and only outright dug them out myself. a small local undertakers business has helped with the burial of a small number of the victims of italy crash a complains they've been buried anonymously and without dignity. now is japan. about to change the way it that the world uses escalators ahead of next year's summer olympics togas transport authority has launched a campaign to improve escalator the goal is to improve safety in the city's busy metro stations. and the push for escalator etiquette has been escalating for some

time in japan like in most big cities tokyo train riders in a rush want to clear side so they can make a run for it but some parents are saying hold on safety 1st. i'd like to see people only standing on the escalator and for that to become part of our culture. she and others are at this workshop hosted by the tokyo metro service for aim is to make escalators standing room only so far the new way of writing this being well received was he does it. i think that this is a good campaign it would be great if it spread through all of japan. i think this campaign will spread awareness and help make things safe and you feel that you don't let in the day. and this is how you do it orderly and safely kids

are regarded as the best ambassadors for getting the manners message out since they're often excited to share with they've learned this lesson includes experiencing what it's like to travel as an elderly or disabled person for these children the new escalator etiquette campaign is a big step in the right direction. this is t w news and these are our top stories britain will be heading to the polls on december 12th of their lawmakers voted to hold a snap election prime minister boris johnson had pushed for the election after failing to get his brags of bill through parliament. thousands of anti-government demonstrators have staged the 12th day of protests. best's and chillies capital santiago activists clashed with police who responded with tear gas and water cannon the protesters are demanding more equality and better public services. lebanese prime minister saad hariri has

resigned after 2 weeks of protests against corruption and sectarianism opponents say hariri is departure is not enough to satisfy their demands they want a complete overhaul of the political system. the u.s. house of representatives has voted to recognize the mass killings of armenians by autumn and turks a century ago as genocide the house also called for sanctions on iraq for its invasion of northern syria turkey condemned both electronic device this is t w news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at d w news or visit our website that's you thought call. you're watching the news coming up in that news and business news germany's infrastructure is crumbling the economy is stalling and interest rates are near 0 so is it tough for germans to end their obsession with saving and start spending.

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