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this is news coming to you live from the dead still rises as iran cracks down on protesters analysts international says more than 100 people have been killed in demonstrations over hikes in fuel prices also on the program dozens of protesters spend another night under siege in a hong kong university campus with food and water drilling how much longer can they hold out against police. and what you think is the right age for a girl to get married to go 60.
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6. digit of the reports from nigeria where child brides are commonplace. plus what lessons can we learn about climate change from penguins we'll head to the antarctic to find out. of a warm welcome to you. and this seemed to national says more than 100 people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests in iran the unrest erupted after hikes in future prices authorities responded by shutting down the internet supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei 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 president 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. but of course the pictures of men who have been arrested are shown on state television they are 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 have been arrested in the wake of the protests the un has expressed concern over the security services heavy handed response.
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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 picture but it's clearly very significant meanwhile the iranian leadership is that hearing to a hard line internet restrictions are still in effect in iran. now for more i'm joined by he's a correspondent in tehran who's following this story for us look at seems a 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 here 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 apparently the security forces used life. to shoot on demonstrators especially
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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 that the immediate trigger for this fellow says no it seems to be the hike in pepper prices by some 50 percent but is there a wider 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 it was getting better effectively 2016 and 17 but then last year since u.s. president trump inflicted you have the sanctions specially on oil export and on the
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financial sector economy went down rapidly devaluation of the local currency here that your reign realities have a year to last more than half of its value prices are up 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 salary so low that they can make a living so anger is much higher than just contented to price hike of gasoline and the government has reacted to this fotis with an immediate crackdown they've made many arrests some of the people expected to face the death penalty they've shut down the intern. 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 a bit. overwhelmed by. the anger industries and by this heavy
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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 week and has come to an end we have a relative stable situation as many police in the streets said internet is down but i don't think that the protests as we saw it last week and 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. in israel a 3rd election within a year looks likely after the man seen as kingmaker in coalition talks. refused to back either of them. blame the party's leaders prime minister binyamin netanyahu and benny gantz of the blue and white party for the failure to find a compromise even ones announcement means that guns now has less than 12 hours to
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form a government and a presidential mandate. kramer has been following developments. don't live in london is the potential kingmakers we said but he says he will endorse neither binyamin netanyahu nor benny gantz why not. why has he said he's seen here from the beginning since the last elections have to already him is well and the kingmaker and he said from the very beginning that he would like to see a unity government a kind of plan could this between netanyahu city could party and any guns discuss the von blue and white party but he claimed in his very much anticipated press briefing today you blame both leaders for that not happening now lieberman is seen as a very hawkish think a he the us defense minister under netanyahu until about a year ago and resigned over the gaza policies which were not harsh enough for him
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but he's also a very secular person and he pushes for secular issues like the draft or like civil marriage and that's why he said he blamed it on yahoo for sticking to his. could listen with his right wing bloc which includes the high rated parties the us also talks religious probably wouldn't sit with them when it comes to guns he said he blamed him for not accepting the. idea that was put forward by president rivlin but also he wouldn't accept to sit in a minority government he said and that was also a scenario that was discussed here under the leadership of benny guns which would have meant that the joint list the arab israelis parties would have been needed to support such a minority government that is out of a question for. joe lieberman who said there aren't
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a scientist he wouldn't sit with them so lots of obstacles then now then a gun has just a few hours to find a pocket to form a coalition government what are his chances. well he still has a couple of hours left i mean his money goes until midnight here local time but it seems if you look at the mathematics of it highly unlikely at the moment but there might be a last minute to you but if he doesn't make a deal by midnight then the mandate goes to the parliament the knesset and then any of the. case they could actually put forward. that they would like to form a coalition if they would have to $61.00. case to form such a coalition but they could also decide that they will to solve the knesset and then pull earlier they have $21.00 days for that and then go on idea for elections for such election which would be highly unprecedented in israel 3 elections within one
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year also it's already unprecedented the 2 candidates postponed in the netanyahu and now been guns wouldn't have been able to form such a coalition and that's why israel is in a political stand there which affects institutions here but also it's a challenging security situation but also it's highly anticipated that possibly. very soon day what might be indictment charges filed against the current acting prime minister binyamin netanyahu so all of this comes together in the coming weeks he has a lot going on there don he actually in jerusalem thank you very much for that. some other stories making news around the world in the u.k. prime minister. opposition leader jeremy corben have gone head to head on television before next month's election johnson's conservative party is accused of deceiving voters off his chains it's true name to fact check the u.k.
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. police in malta have arrested a man in connection with the murder of. who was found dead on the island. you're going fenech one of the country's most prominent business men was detained when police intercepted off the coast of. 25 people have been found alive inside a refrigerated container on the danish cargo ship bound for the u.k. . discovered after the vessel left a dutch port the incident comes just after $39.00 victims were found dead in a truck in britain last month. the standoff between pro-democracy protesters and police at a besieged university in hong kong appears to be winding down and remaining protesters options as their food and water run out it's thought about $100.00 protesters are still inside the camp and some of them attempted to escape overnight by climbing through. others amid warnings that police might fire live rounds to
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clear the area more than a 1000 protesters have been arrested since one day. joining me now from hong kong correspondent sean bell shot of hong kong police has given a statement to the press about the latest in the standoff that protest is still trapped in the university campus some 100 we think what do they have to say. it was confirmed that the standoff is still ongoing students do still remain in the university campus at the moment now the officer did not give specific figures on how many remain inside the building but it is estimated that as many as you up to $100.00 protesters could still be inside now as you mentioned that the conditions there are dwindling the resources they have food and water hygiene conditions are said to be extremely bad now days into this standoff with police now the officer crucially said that there were no plans at the moment to to storm the building to
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enter the building he called instead on the protesters to give themselves up to them to put down their weapons and to the parents as well he put out an appeal the parents who've been waiting outside the campus anxiously for days now to hear of any news of their loved ones he called on them to appeal to that to their children too to drop their weapons and to leave the campus you also gave some more information on those who attempted to escape over the last few days he clarified that number of people who abseiled from a footbridge only campus in a desperate bid to try and invade police innovative arrest were actually arrested you also said that those who try to escape from a sewage system a number of those were arrested as well so there was some significant information that's come out from this press conference a short time ago and shocked with so many arrests does this market turning point in the pro-democracy movement. is that it will be
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a blow emerita that so many of these students and how it's been arrested he said roughly a 1000 people have been detained as part of this day's long standoff now whether or not it will bring an end or at least to tone down these protests mean i think at the moment at this stage is unlikely we've spoken to a number of protesters who feel that their fellow students who were caught up in this who have been. detained risk so much they face up to 10 years in prison if they're charged with writing many feel that they have to continue this protest movement to not let down those who have been arrested so far and what we have seen over this the course of this protest movement these students read these protestors really do have the ability to to reinvent this movement and to keep compliment him and to keep drawing crowds on to the street weekend after weekend. in charlotte in a separate development a former employee of the british consulate in hong kong says he was detained and tortured by china's secret police of britain has now silent the chinese ambassador
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in london what can you tell us about this case. well these are revelations that really do cut to the heart of this protest movement now simon chang the former british consulate employee has given various interviews he's also written a statement alleging that he was tortured after he was detained during a trip to mainland china he the allegations are quite difficult reading clude the fact that he was put in stress positions sleep deprivation he said he was beaten as well now this is something that is have of course sent shock waves across hong kong here among the protest movement this is exactly why so many people took to the streets in the 1st place fear of mainland china encroaching on their rights on their freedoms here in hong kong as you say the british foreign minister has now called the chinese ambassador saying he was outraged by these allegations for their part though china said that it is also express anger at the u.k.
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response is long accused the u.k. and the u.s. of meddling and interfering in this protest movement shala chosen bill in hong kong thank you very much as always. you're watching the news coming up ahead what lessons can we learn about climate change from penguins we head to the 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 has yet 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 number of undernourished children has dropped by about half but despite the progress children's rights remain a battleground these are the reports from nigeria where girls
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a marriage off while they're still shockingly young. a muslim neighborhood in kaduna city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years with not much light or food and left on her own her name is her son she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4 a child bride one of millions in nigeria if you're born a girl here there's a 44 percent probability that you will be married before you 18th birthday. this neighbor knows. he says at the age of 15 she wasn't too young to be married he would marry his daughters off much younger. son's age
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66. by the. short. this is. a fierce advocate for women's and children's rights she hopes to be free but he is muslim herself she says the koran does not justify this practice dallas lho pacific or any findings or any security that proved those things the admin as. it is a most of this is not done based on islamic perspective the done best perspective she says education is key to change outdated practices and support women's rights. very why does a leader that is not all. is something that has to do with advancement so other than laws can be amended and can be seeing. that the condition of the.
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child marriage exists elsewhere in nigeria to here in lagos poverty drives some parents to marry daughters of under 18. is privileged in many ways but that doesn't stop the 17 year old from raising her voice against child marriage a son a story makes are angry a lot of nigerians don't view women as human beings view them as. i did and it is to them susan wants to amend the constitution so that it bars anyone under the age of 18 from getting married she and 2 friends have started an online petition to bring the issue to the senate floor the next step would be to get to the root of the problem and try to educate. the g.d.p. and he would be in a much better standing than it is now. a son has been transferred to this psychiatric hospital the doctors say it will take months to stabilize her it's
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unclear how long the government will finance or treatment and with her family will be held accountable for the damage it has done. that report from northern nigeria was fired on and found if. now for some other news at the impeachment hearings in washington senior officials have given evidence relating to a phone call between president donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart one of them left in an alexander vinta one said he was doing duty bound to object to what he called the president's improper phone conversation. francis was greeted by adoring crowds in bangkok as he arrived for a weeklong tour of thailand. and japan the pontiff hopes his visit will boost his 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 1904.
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the inter arctic isn't the most remote and most spectacular parts of the world but it's also one that is warming the quickest scientists fear that global warming is melting the continents ice contributing to rising sea levels the into arctic is a key barometer of the impacts of climate change one of the dozens of international of border trees monitoring the effects of global warming there is the noise station we went there to see how the research is this study climate change. antarctica a continent almost completely covered in ice it's extremely sensitive to even the slightest changes in climate it's at the frozen front it's home to the emperor penguin here on the ice shelf it's freezing cold perfect conditions for emperor penguin breeding researchers say if the climate changes it would most
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likely affect them right now they're trying to count the penguins in the colony. do you think about only it's i think a huge danger for this penguin colony here is that the structure of the sea ice on which they've green it 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 or they may not have any pleading grants or tall any more under certain circumstances they wouldn't be able to build their colony a tall will be able to reproduce. so the research is a document in the penguins numbers from above with a drone 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. these pictures are supposed to one of
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the lab that way we can piece them together as far as possible because. they do that here a few kilometers away at the alfred vega institute's noir maya station the research is used 3 d. simulators to collate their data on the colony in the long term they hope to deliver valuable information on if and how the emperor penguins are reacting to warming worldwide temperatures. if warming is limited to 1.5 or 2 degrees celsius has agreed in the paris accord this species of penguin could survive if not they'll be wiped out by 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 where and by how much.
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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 so there has been a stock rise in temperatures there. and it's that peninsula which is causing place see across in the most northerly reaches of the antarctic to melt scientists that have also measured the warming of the water climate change is already starting to eat away it on top it's just a question of how far the effects will reach. some football. has been announced as the new coach of the english premier league club tottenham hotspur replacing the outgoing. now marine neil won multiple titles in portugal england italy and spain and his most recent coaching position was at manchester united but he was sacked in december of 2018 his predecessor took charge
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of the club in 2014 and led them to the champions league final last season but fell short of expectations this season. the germany's national football team completed the euro 2020 qualifying campaign on a high they beat northern ireland 61 in frankfurt and tuesday have trick from a by munich winger says now betty and furthest writes from leon go to sky and brand so germany recover from an early one nil deficit to record an emphatic when the victory means they finished top of the qualifying group ahead of old rivals the netherlands who also qualified. after the match jonathan crean spoke to midfielder mph on about how germany are shaping up ahead of next june stoneham and . obviously it was difficult year last year she thinks the team is now turned the corner and it's going in the right direction. the iraq going the right direction i
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think we have a young group and they have a lot of in the playoffs as well and they will play that often to get like that like today and about it great and. i hope in the future good that they have what you think has been the difference this year and what's improved. we have. to have a lot of the new play offs i think a very good player and. the spirit and team is very strong and. we are very hungry too and thank you. and d.h. on talking to you the obvious johnson crane coming up next on deja vu news asia disqualified over alleged election law violations is thailand trying to silence opposition voices. tackling a difficult issue through film and admission from pakistan seeks to change attitudes about child marriage. and the man who is sniffing your pet
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