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the to. play. playing. this is t w news live from berlin from presidents to exiled mexico grants asylum to bolivia as the bolivia's able rallies a day after he resides in the south american nation plunges into chaos a mix of celebrations looting and gold blocks filled the streets yes president's backers are calling it a coup and it's unclear coop is in charge. tongue kongs leader issues a defiant warning after a day of violence demonstrations escalated monday after an officer fired 5 rounds
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seriously injuring a protester terry lamb says the government will not yield to pressure. plus turkey says it's not a hotel for islamic states members and begins sending foreign militants captured in syria back to their countries of origin in europe and in the united states. i'm called aspen welcome to the program mexico's foreign ministry says it has granted asylum to bolivian ex president abel morales he resigned on sunday amid pressure from protesters and the military or always had declared victory in a disputed election last month which triggered weeks of demonstrations more unrest broke out overnight in the political capital love pos after murali said that he was stepping down buses were set on fire and shops were reportedly looted. his
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resignation after 14 years as president as well as several other senior government members resigning has left a sudden power vacuum in the country. our let's bring in correspondent johan ramires he is standing by for us in bolivia's political capital love pos now we heard mexico granting asylum now to abel murali is what more do we know about that offer. we don't know much about is everything about where others he's been a secret since he resigned yesterday we just know that the minister of foreign affairs of mexico months ago without this offer him. that he accepted but where is this right now we don't know. he's supposed to be in cochabamba but we don't know exactly where he is and i think we are not going to have more details about it me when he's going to go to mexico or from where or how because of security measures
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to vote for him of course so the former president nowhere to be found i mean who is in charge in bolivia right now most of moralists governments has resigned will anyone step in to fill this power vacuum. according to the constitution the former vice president and now the president of the congress and yes she should be the new president on the bases but the congress should mask except for this resignation and it was supposed to happen today but they couldn't meet. the congress i mean because of all the problems we had had in the last hours here in the us many deputies they couldn't come to the congress so we have a new session that is supposed to have to take place tomorrow 4 pm here and it will leave an hour or so just after the congress accept this resignation she can take
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power but not before so right now we don't have a president in bolivia we don't have a head and. no one isn't ahead of the executed by we're but is that it continues to run through the ministers sunday ministers other day the public institutions here in bolivia and you're one of course hovering all of that over all of that is the c. word i mean coup rallies claims this was a coup mexico and some other countries in the region agree with that the united states says this was actually the will of the people i mean how is this being viewed in bolivia. there's a very controversial point people say that this is just a rebellion a civilian rebellion not a coup that they are actually the minutes hours for example they didn't participate in this crisis that they just. touched yesterday when they suggest to others to resign but not before what we have seen about the police they were not
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protesting against ever morale is they were protesting because of. they wanted better conditions to work on better salaries so that they were not asking about this resignation that just happened in the same moment because in this crisis everything is happening at the same time but i personally i wouldn't talk about i think we have seen the society industry it's far from the political parties for from the army to take the streets and to protest again a fraud the fraud that was yesterday confirmed but they were the session of american states your 100 mirrors in the past for us thank you very much on kong is on edge after a day of of escalating violence in pro-democracy demonstrations one protester was in the hospital after being shot and wounded by police in a shocking confrontation caught on camera authorities are denying rumors that police were ordered to use firearms to bring the situation under control in another incident a bystander expressing pro beijing views was set on fire hong kong's leader kerry
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lamb warns that the government will not bow it's a pressure in the streets. an officer and a man dressed in white are locked in a struggle as a man in black approaches at this point the officer resists is gun and shoots him why why the shooting itself is too graphic to show the man then collapses and moments later another officer then seems to be patting him down possibly checking for a weapon it all happened as pro-democracy protesters trying to close down streets in train lines. at a press conference the police and the shooting was in self-defense and in the interest of public safety. the officer believed it was very likely that the revolver would be snatch and the consequence what would be the sausages death and casualties would have resulted in the whole incident the officer fired 3 shots including one that hit that man. the police say they are investigating hospital
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officials say the wounded man is in critical condition the shooting has inflamed many protesters are don't understand mark do you have to search the people. surfing bodies do you have time to sit this before or just sit at the drive in another incident a man was set on fire allegedly after getting into a dispute with protesters he's also in critical condition in a hospital. governor kerry lamb says that the government will not back down against violent protesters. if there is do any. wishful thinking that by escalating violence the hong kong as a government will yield to pressure. to satisfy the so-called political team on this. i'm making this statement clear and loud here that will not happen.
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elsewhere police fired tear gas and deployed a water cannon in various parts of the city they also charged on to university campuses where students were protesting. are the look now at some of the other stories making news around the world and she lays security forces have fired water cannons to disperse protesters the country has seen weeks of often violent anti-government unrest she lays government unveiled plans on sunday to draft a new constitution but the opposition says the proposals don't go far enough. e.u. foreign policy chief federico grenier along with germany france and the u.k. have urged iran sube reverse recent breaches in the 2015 nuclear deal or face action week tehran announced it was resuming low grade uranium enrichment at its underground ordo nuclear plant australian authorities are warning that its largest cities sydney and surrounding areas are facing a quote catastrophic bushfire threat
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a state of emergency has been declared for the entire states of new south wales and queensland at least 3 people have already died while thousands have been forced to leave their homes. a former british army officer who helped found the syrian emergency rescue group the white helmets was found dead in turkey earlier on monday james limits you as a body was discovered near his home in istanbul authorities have launched an investigation into his death the white helmets work in rebel held areas in syria. turkey has begun sending suspected so-called islamic state supporters captured in syria back to their countries of origin turkish officials say a u.s. citizen was the 1st to be repatriated several german nationals are expected to be returned to germany later this week turkey recently criticized its western allies for refusing to take back their citizens and warned that it would send back the militants and their relatives even if their citizens to citizenship has already
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been revoked. pictures from camps in syria those set for deportation are primarily relatives of suspected i asked fighters including women and children out of roughly 20 germans who are now in turkish deportation camps 10 are to be repatriated the german government has expressed surprise this is not it's important for us to find out of there is a connection to its militants and if this is the case then we must see to it that those deported to germany be brought before german courts to do that we must receive adequate information and we expect cooperation from the turkish government from the turkish. suspected supporters of the us will not only be repatriated to germany he says she is going to have a message for all european governments we are sending these people back to you starting monday. we are sending them back whether you like it or not. the europeans
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feel turkey has strong arm because it made this decision unilaterally without discussing it with e.u. countries these. this is a security problem for turkey the entire region and all of europe will pass we must stop these barbarians from operating at large again and this action must be a coordinated one was called idiots in berlin opposition parties say such chord nation could have begun much earlier in the turkey had long since made its intentions clear. earlier we spoke with correspondent kate brady we asked her if germany has any obligation to take back its citizens well the skepticism is still there but at the same time it's important to understand that. germany is indeed obliged to take these people back now as we had there in the report there are a number of places in the e.u. number of member states which have revoked citizens' citizenship and that is not
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the case in germany so these people who have been deemed to be german nationals they have the right to return to germany. now when you think of animals that can lend humans some emotional support what comes to mind most likely dogs or cats probably not a pig well lou you see behind me is what's known as a therapy pig she's part of a program that brings trained therapy animals to the airports to lift spirits and ease the fear of flying. let's. just remember to work fully you live she's part of san francisco international airport swag brigade she's not catching any flights but their presence might help stressed out the past and just relax. people are very happy to get distracted from the travel from their routine whether they're flying on their journey your location
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or work but everybody is usually very happy. i did see things it's not to load a whole bush there's no lipstick on this pig. just perhaps a touch of nail polish. and people seem to enjoy it. i've never seen one here so it's interesting that it's fun i got really excited. to stay here singapore airport. because. they did their tricks like a god. but leave lou doesn't do just simple tricks she has a knack of bringing people together. we walk in and we find today that most people have their heads buried in their devices they're not engaged we walk in people start to look up they start to react they respond super positively
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they start to engage with each other. the program is a hit with florence but is it all a bit of a blur. or fully lose. their lives very well socialized various to people i see my fairy tale and copy. it seems everyone is happy including li lu who obviously loves holding the limelight. all right both carnival season has kicked off in germany with celebrations in several cities across the country. western cities of cologne and duesseldorf thousands gathered for the start of what's known as silly season which officially gets underway every year adolescent minutes past 11 on the 11th of november i'm.
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