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i am. this is the dublin is coming to you live from berlin the dead still rise is as iran cracked down on protesters and this international says more than 100 people have been killed during protests over the hikes on fuel prices also the program dozens of protesters spent another night under siege in a hong kong university campus with food and water drinking how much longer can they
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hold out against police. and on village children's day thousands of young people into it goes capital me up homeless they have to earn a living by collecting garbage instead of going to school and. what lessons can we learn about climate change from penguins we head to the antarctic to find out. how unwelcome i am of that that shima. and the seem to national says mold in $100.00 people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests in iran the undressed erupted off the hikes in fuel prices authorities responded by shutting down the internet supreme leader ayatollah ali come monday has described the protests as a security matter. very little information reaches the outside world from iran
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authorities have shut down the internet whether there are still protests there and where they may be taking place it's difficult to verify. videos from monday evening show angry demonstrators some are demanding that the government step down the protests were sparked by a drastic increase in the price of gasoline u.s. sanctions and mismanagement are the main causes of iran's economic crisis. also by the i have 3 jobs to support myself of course people are upset and now they found a reason to show their dissatisfaction everyone does it in their own way. pictures of men who have been arrested are shown on state television they're accused of initiating the protests at the behest of other countries one hard line newspaper reports they could face the death penalty. more than 1000 people are believed to
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have been arrested in the wake of the protests the un has expressed concern over the security services heavy handed response. numbers killed certainly in the dozens. in at least 2 figures some reports even higher so it would be very useful to have a better clearer picture but it's clearly very significant meanwhile the iranian leadership is and hearing to a hard line internet restrictions are still in effect in iran. now for more i'm joined by what is a correspondent in tehran who is following this story for us look at seems the number of casualties and address is much greater than the government has indicated so far what can you tell us from there. it's very difficult for us as journalists years since we have the internet breakdown to get useful information and trustful information but there are some credible reports from all over the country that
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apparently the security forces use life ammunition to shoot on demonstrators specially on saturday so we tend to believe that the figures that amnesty give more accurate than the official death toll which means probably more than a 100 people have been have lost their lives during the protests on this last weekend now the immediate trigger for these protests look seems to be the hike in petrol prices by some 350 percent but is there a why did anger against the government and its policies that. definitely especially between young iranians they suffer a lot from very bad economic situation in this country we used to have sanctions over a decade here and then came this famous nuclear deal in 2015 and most uranium hoped to decide to ation will getting better and getting better effectively 2016 and 17 but then last year since u.s.
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president trump inflicted new heavy sanctions specially on oil export and on the financial sector economy went down rapidly devaluation of the local currency here that uranium realities have a year to last more than half of its value prices are same for rent commodities staple and the jobs are missing especially in young iranians more than 50 percent of young iranians are looking for jobs and if they have a job it's the center is so low that they can not make a living so anger is much higher than just contented to price hike of gasoline and the government has reacted to these forces with an immediate crackdown they've made many arrests some of the people expected to face the death penalty they've shut down the entire. how people are responding to this. we spoke to many people yesterday here in tehran and specially middle class iranians are very cautious now they are
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a bit. overwhelmed by. the anger in the streets and by this heavy handed crackdown of the security forces so most middle class reunions tend to stay out of out of harm's way now they wait and see and this means that protest as we have seen it last weekend has come to an end we have a relative stable situation as many police in the streets as you said internet is down but i don't think that the protests as we saw it last weekend will continue to do to the fact that the regime is really reacting very very harshly. in tehran thank you very much for this update from there. if we haven't yet today with some other stories making news around the world in the u.k. a 1st televised debate ahead of december's general election has taken place between prime minister barak's johnson and labor party leader jeremy corbyn but johnson's conservative party was accused of trying to deceive voters after its press office
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changed its tritter channels name during the debate fact check your k. . now police in malta have arrested a man in connection with the murder of journalist a deaf in syria who was found dead on the island last year you're going fenech of one of the country's most prominent businessman was apprehended when police intercepted his you off the coast of. pope francis was greeted by adoring crowds in bangkok as he arrived for a week long tour of thailand and japan the pontiff hopes his visit will boost the faith of catholics in both countries and address pressing recent issues like human trafficking is the 1st pope to visit thailand since john paul the 2nd in 1984. the standoff between pro-democracy protesters and police in the besieged university in hong kong appears to be winding down and remaining protesters are ringing their
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options as a food and water run out it's thought about $100.00 protesters are still inside the campus and some of them attempted to escape overnight by climbing. others surrendered amid warnings that police might fire live rounds to clear the area more than a 1000 protesters have been arrested since monday. for the very latest joining me from hong kong is journalist ameri why she works for the news publication website quartz welcome mary is this standoff that we saw outside this campus university campus does it mark a turning point in the pro-democracy movement. it certainly marks an escalation in violence on both sides aggression and the use of force it's very hard to say whether anything is a turning point in this ongoing movement because so much changes and happened so quickly but i would say that it does represent a definitely
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a determination from the police to crack down harder than they have previously on the protesters by don't see the protests fizzling out any time soon the anger that's a fueling the movement is not going away and it continues to grow some protesters are using tactics which have been described as disruptive vandalism destroying public property destroying public space is this undermining a broader appeal for the protests isn't there movement yet certainly the case that there has been an uptick in the use of violence by protesters and that's come as a result of many different factors. particularly because peaceful protest methods have no response from the government as to whether that detracts or hurts the
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movement it seems at least from polling so far from public polls that support numbers for protestors continues to be quite high. even after this past month or 2 of increased violence so it seems like there's more aggressive tactic neither increase the support nor the crease of support for the protesters that the u.s. said it has just spazz to legislation calling for democracy in hong kong and threatening to revoke the territories most favored and trade status. for hong kong now this is a big boost of course for the protests is but will this have any impact on beijing's hong kong policy. it's hard to say for now we have certainly seen hong kong come out swiftly condemning the legislation as expected they're calling it interference in the internal affairs of hong kong for protesters it's obviously as he said a morale booster to know that international community believe the international
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community is behind that cause to whether it will really change how china and hong kong will deal with the current situation i don't really know and i don't expect it to to have a huge effect. right mary apply from the courts publication in hong kong thank you very much for your analysis. you're watching the news coming up ahead what lessons can be climate change from penguins we had to antarctica to find out. but 1st today is world children's day and this one marks 30 years since leaders from around the world made a commitment to protect the young from violence and neglect only one country yet has to ratify the un convention on the rights of the child the united states since its adoption deaths of children under the age of 5 are fallen by 60 percent and the
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number of a number of undernourished children has dropped by about half the despite all this progress for many children around the world life is still a daily struggle the day of the reports from the capital of togo. these kids should be in school however the state they spend every morning collecting least they live on the streets of togo's capital money collecting trash is one of the main reason for them of making a living. i have been doing this for 3 years but i don't like it i would like to study to become a painter and have my own business model. around 7000 children live on the streets of the west african country they all have their own reasons why they are homeless for some it's an issue of poverty and insufficient resources to make great and when they try to return home i usually got to.
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try to go back once every 3 months to see if someone there would take care of me. many of the children feel ashamed and that's why they wish to remain anonymous the lack of a social safety net for kids in tow leaves them painfully unprotected. sometimes i slip into. the same place where the waste. social worker kevin understands what these children are calling through all too well. when i was really young i also spent some time living on the streets for a while it was a really difficult time because the streets are not a place for children and now i feel sad when i see these kids on the streets because their mind of the dark moments in my life. kevin is the founder of health
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international an engineer that promote children's rights and helps to reunite them with their families in addition to assisting them with daily issues on the street kevin wants to work to ensure a better future for them in the long run. this is the welcoming center which we call d.n.r. that means well being here else international we provide a safe space we are situated where these children lead their lives on the streets as you can see we are right in the middle of the ghetto but here the kids can come together and find people who care about them every morning the safe space turned into an alternative school the children come here to learn how to read and write and also get to enjoy various social activities such as painting dancing or sports we have a vision for 2050 and it starts now with us implementing ways to provide these kids
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with access to education and also to involve your families so one find them living on the street anymore kevin and his team will continue to tackle the issue of homelessness among young people and hope to help these teens find a fresh start. to. join him in the studio is. she's an advocate for children's rights and shock protection with was vision germany. now the un can. mention is mocking 30 years but what impact does it actually have on the lives of children and their reality like we just saw in our report. well the un convention did have a huge impact on many lives of many children around the world like we've seen before mortality rate has dropped by half in the sectors of education and health that have been made many successes but still as we see there are many
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children left behind many groups of children that are not reached by the promises of the c.r.c. and we have to work on that and how do we work on that what needs to be the top priority because great progress has been made in the last 30 years but so much more still needs to be done. to my mind the priority is political will has to be renewed it's all laid out in the convention u.n. committee on the rights of the child gives concrete recommendations to every state what the state can do to. reach the children that need to be reached and still. many children are left behind and so it's more a question of political will and how we can change that the attitude and the will see using the responsibility should lie with governments and on the sea make this the primary response ability yes but there is a very international n.g.o.s local n.g.o.s. so we are all there and do
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our. work and support governments really and doing there and doing their work but the political will still needs to become from governments to see n.g.o.s and in critical very important work as we saw in that report. is an ngo was working your organization it said but you're saying the ultimate responsibility lies with governments so how does one in coverage governments to do more in terms of protecting their. it's of children we have to build up pressure. we have to stand together as and jails not see ourselves as. working against each other but together and we're doing that actually. coalitions and coloration and fighting together for the rights of children and i think that's the most important part that we so what are the biggest challenges that you face in trying to protect the rights of children the biggest challenges are that. structural
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changes are not being made we need really structural changes on. the policy base so that we can go in and do our work but if there are no policies set out to give us freedom to work we cannot do our work so how optimistic are you looking ahead that sit 10 years from now the position of children all over the world will be much better than it was today i'm optimistic because we see what the convention has done. to our view on children and to the children perceive themselves in the last 30 years so if we can you know recommit and if governments can become a to the c.r.c. we can look up to mystically into the future that is the good. of would vision thank you very much for joining us thank you. joining us the united states and an
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army officer has testified he was duty bound to object to what he called the president's improper phone call addressing ukrainian investigations of top u.s. democrats republicans attacked left in kind of alexander vintage one who was on president trump's national security council costing doubts on his loyalty to the united states his testimony launched a pivotal week as the house's impeachment investigation reaches further into the white house. they had witnessed the controversial phone call at the heart of the impeachment inquiry with colonel alexander vnd mn top white house expert on ukraine and jennifer williams an advisor to vice president mike pence both told the panel they had concerns about the cole. part of the record with that i found the july 25th phone call on usual because in contrast to other presidential calls i had observed it involved discussion of what it appeared to be a domestic political matter it was inappropriate. it was improper for the president
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to request and to demand an investigation into a political problem an opponent especially at foreign power where there is at best dubious belief that this would be a completely impartial investigation the democrats hope to amass evidence that president trump abused his position using military aid to ukraine to investigate his political opponents the republicans again sought to undermine the credibility of the witnesses of course. your boss had concerns about your judgment your former boss dr phil had concerns about your republican lawmakers even question lieutenant colonel than men's loyalty to the country having emigrated to the u.s. from ukraine age 3 the proceedings continued with testimony from former u.s. envoy to need to kurt volker and to morrison a former national security council official at the cabinet meeting president trump
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continued his condemnation of the entire inquiry what's going on is a disgrace and it's an embarrassment to our nation given enough evidence of wrongdoing on the president's part the hosts dominated by democrats will vote to send the case to trial and senate this long drawn out political battle is only shifting gears. the intel to the most remote parts of the world and also base spectacular as you can see but it's also the one that's the quickest scientists fear that global warming is melting the continent's ice contribution to rising sea levels. is a key for the impacts of climate change one of dozens of international monitoring the effects of warming there is the noise. we went there to see how the research a study climate change. antarctica
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a continent almost completely covered in ice yet extremely sensitive to even the slightest changes in climate. it's the frozen ocean front is home to the emperor penguin here on the ice shelf it's freezing cold perfect conditions for emperor penguin breeding researchers say that if the climate here changes it would likely affect the emperor penguins right now if they're trying to count the penguins on the colony. deep in could only it's i think a huge danger for this penguin colony here is that the structure of the sea ice on which they breed is changing if there's an increase in temperature and the sea ice shrinks breaks up earlier in the year their breeding season will be shortened so they may not have any pleading grants or tool anymore under certain circumstances they wouldn't be able to build their colony are told will be able to reproduce. so
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the research is a documenting the penguins numbers from above with the drawing. they've been commissioned by the german environment ministry to get the big picture of what's happening here. because the camera looks directly down and takes picture after picture at certain intervals all. these pictures are supposed to one of the lab that way we can piece them together as far as possible because. they do that here i few kilometers away at the alfred vigna institute station the researchers use 3 d. simulators to collect their daughter on the colony and the long term they hope to produce information on if and how the emperor penguins react to increasing global temperatures. if warming is limited to 1.5 or 2 degrees celcius has agreed in the paris accord this bases of penguin could survive and if not they'll be wiped out by
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2100 at the very latest. the scientists measure how much things are warming up on the roof of the research station. they send up weather balloons to collect and send back relevant data. over the coming years the researchers hope to measure what changes and by how much. and so on at this station for example we're not actually seeing any changes in temperature. it's the same at many other stations across antarctica but that's not the case on the antarctic peninsula and there has been a stock rise in temperatures there. that's causing the glacier crusts to melt scientists there of also measured a warming of the water. climate change is already starting to eat away at antarctica. it's just a question of how far the effects will reach. some football years none
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really or has been announced as the new coach of the english premier league club tottenham hotspur replacing the outgoing party cine the lineal won multiple titles in portugal england italy and spain his most recent coaching position was manchester united where he was sacked in december of 2018 his predecessor put it you know took charge of the club in 2014 and led them to the champions league final last season but fell short of expectations this season. this is news and these are our top stories the human rights group amnesty international says as many as 106 people may have died during protests across iran the demonstrations began over the weekend after the government announced a sharp hike in the price of fuel. in hong kong the
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standoff between pro-democracy protesters and police at a besieged university appears to be coming to an end it's thought about a 100 protesters are still inside the campus 1000 protesters have been arrested since monday. police in malta have arrested a man in connection with the murder of journalist a deaf in galatea who was found dead on the island last year you're going fenech a prominent businessman was apprehended when police intercepted his your. pulled francis has been greeted by adoring crowds in bangkok as he arrived for a weeklong tour of thailand and japan the pontiff hopes his visit will boost the faith of catholics in both countries and address pressing recent issues like human trafficking. this is really is from berlin for more you can follow some twitter
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