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[000:00:00;00] play . play. this is good news live from for lend a target it's national grab that yields a spectacular haul feast break into the royal palace of the german city of dresden and make off with diamond jewelry a measurable cultural value museum authorities say it is a disaster but don't get know exactly what's missing. also coming up. oh good beating her 1st stray should be made the young georgian activist who lost
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an eye in anti-government protests and has become one of the faces of the push for reform act making the best of the bad news hong kong leader kerry lamb takes voters for a peaceful election but says the landslide results that went against her will not change her mind she promises aber view but no reform will go live to hong kong cause. she's got one of the voices of rock'n'roll t.v. turner turns 80 believe the other here. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program it reads like
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a hot. he would movie script thieves have broken into one of europe's most renowned museums and made off with a haul of priceless 18th century jewelry now police of the german city of dresden are still looking for those robbers while the devastated museum officials try and work out what they've lost dresden screenful museum home to one of europe's greatest collections of treasures now it's a crime scene after burglars snatched up to $95.00 pieces of the 18th century jewelry from these cabinets including diamonds and rubies this is one of the sets that was stolen exactly how many items were taken from this set is still unknown dresden police say the thieves entered through a window c.c.t.v. footage shows them heading straight to a display cabinet and smashing the glass with an axe before making off with the treasure but the time or thought is a rifle the burglars were long gone
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a nationwide hunt is now under way saxony state premier say security measures were considered adequate is an issue it is exception shot because it's not just the state art collections that were bra but are saxons we now want to get a sense of the damage and the investigative work of the police of. the collection interest and was founded in the 18th century by augustus the strong elector of saxony and later king of poland the jewels here are priceless. because misconduct and i mean we can't put a value on these items as they are unmarketable kept therefore this simply isn't a value that we can work with there is no financial value we can work with with the jewelry to identifiable to sell in the open market the museum fears that the pieces might be broken up all melted down. the stolen jewels survived the allied bombings
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in world war 2. by the soviet union and whatever 10 here in 1958 now dresden is hoping for their return from the hands of the thieves who vanished without a trace. and correspondent erin tilton is at the crime scene in dresden erin you know 1st of all a tell us a little bit more about the investigation into this spectacular heist what's the latest. well as you can see behind me the police cordon around the window that the thieves actually use to gain entrance to the building has been removed and we're also told that forensics teams at least for now have called off the hunt for clues within the building although that's likely to continue in the coming hours we know that right now that they're looking for d.n.a. and fiber evidence which might help the police actually besar ascertain the identity of the use of broken the building however that search is likely to be a long and difficult one a police spokesman recently said that the building plays host to some 10000 or several tens of thousands of people each and every day and looking for evidence of
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2 men within that huge massive information is like the proverbial hunt for a needle in a haystack we also know they're continuing to look at 2 small fires which are reported around. their own devices and at the time of the break in wanted a power box and another one in a small personal vehicle and people believe that there could be a direct connection to the break in yesterday and we've been looking at the c.c.t.v. footage aaron of the break and the thieves they really seem to have an in-depth knowledge of the building what's being said about the state of security out of all . the people in dresden there are a lot of open questions when it comes to security and we keep hearing from both the police and the director of the museum that the security concept was up to all modern standards over people here in dresden are wondering on exactly how people were able to break in so quickly there are questions about whether or not there was an electronic alarm system and why that wasn't triggered there are also questions about. why there weren't infrared cameras within the building and why the night watchman weren't actually allowed to get involved once they realized there were
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thieves in the building also there are their people are drawing parallels to a theft back in 1907 here in dresden where i.d.d. our museum was broken into and a set of jewels was also stolen due in part to lax security preparations and part of the museum and also speaking to people in the street you seem to sense a real frustration yes they say you know the museum had a large piece of its history stolen but they're also saying a piece of their cultural history a piece of the city history was stolen as well. and it's interesting i mean when you look at the artifacts themselves if you've ever been to visit this vault you know that they're you know they're really identifiable that they're very special. given that air and what is likely to happen to these artifacts. what we don't know directly however there are 3 main scenarios they've been kicked around i mean they could be sold directly to an individual. buyer on the international market with people thinking that this may have been like a focus attack looking for specific pieces others are suggesting that as we heard in the report there that the pieces could be melted down like we saw happen to
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a large gold coin that was most likely stolen from a berlin museum around 2 years ago still others are on wondering if this could be an attempt to blackmail the museum or blackmail the city but so far the police have been very tight lipped and we don't actually know what the season to do with the jewels aaron tells him with the latest from dresden thank you aaron. thank you. well now we had to georgia where demonstrators protesting against the country's voting system are still outside of the parliament building just by riot police being deployed to clear some of them away from the entrances hundreds of officers moved him during the night and detained several opposition figures campaigners in the former soviet republic say that the voting system unfairly favors the ruling georgian dream party the party agreed to change the system last summer as which has so far failed to do so those 200 demonstrators were injured in clashes with police back then and emily sure went has been to visit one young activist who's become one
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of the faces of this protest movement. michael mori wants to make noises. other times that i can put the things i can't say with words into music. music helps me to control my feelings. i chose to learn the drums because they allow me to express my anger my resentment my happiness and my depression. says she's always wanted to learn how to play but the 19 year old student only started lessons 2 months ago after she lost her left eye during demonstrations in the summer. in june thousands of protesters demanded the switch to a proportional electoral system in georgia when the police used rubber bullets and tear gas against demonstrators hundreds were injured including the government was pushed into promising change. since her injury the government has been paying
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marco's medical bills but now that the ruling party has gone back on its promise of electoral reform her frustration at what happened burns even stronger. i'm still angry of course i've accepted the reality of what happened. i can't change that anymore i've become the victim of injustice. my face all of me. and when i see that that injustice still hasn't ended and that we haven't won that all that just strengthens my anger that rage essentially takes over me. sammartino but demonstrators are determined to keep taking to the streets until the government concedes snap elections and changes to a proportional electoral system to many mako has become one of the faces of the ruling party's broken promise whether she wanted to or not but for now members of the georgian dream party are portraying the opposition protesters as an irrelevant
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minority. sure that. our support. for the georgia i'm much more. aggressive. and supporters. marco is determined to get compensation for her injury 5 months after the summer protests she's now finally been named as an official witness in an investigation into police violence at the demonstrations she hopes her loss won't have been for nothing. that i love voice of the people is very hard to ignore the voice of the people is the biggest governing force for a country not individual politicians and when a country is democratic you can get justice you just have to fight for it. while i was just. marco is taking her case to georgia's courts she doesn't
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plan to give up her fight and neither do the protesters. let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world at least 4 people have died in albania's worst most powerful earthquake for decades the 6.4 magnitude quake was centered 30 kilometers northwest of the capital causing buildings to collapse and sending panicked residents out onto the streets it was the 2nd to hit the country in 2 months. yes. the un says that greenhouse gas levels in the earth's atmosphere hit a record high in 2018 carbon dioxide methane and nitrous oxide are the 3 main gases that contribute to global warming the u.n. is warning that the world is not on course to prevent catastrophic climate change. a judge in the u.s. has ordered former white house counsel don mcgann to testify in the impeachment inquiry against donald trump it's a setback for the president to us try to prevent his top aides from giving
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testimony the trump administration plans to appeal the ruling. on congress chief executive kerry lamb says the government will seriously reflect on the results of an election that saw pro-democracy candidates make massive gains during her 1st media briefing since local elections on sunday lamb also thanked citizens for voting peacefully in a volatile environment a former british colony has been rocked by 6 months of the mass protest against asians rule which frequently descended into violent clashes with police the opposition's landslide victory is being seen as a clear rejection of lam's handling of the on rust voter turnout top 70 percent higher than any poll in the territories history. correspondent charlot telson pilled joins us now live from hong kong so we have it there charlotte leader kerry lab making no concessions during her 1st briefing since these local elections how
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are protesters say could not. we've just been at another prayed says here another lunchtime protests in the shopping center just behind me minutes ago this was absolutely filled with people of all ages singing and singing some of the slogans the chants of these hong kong protests calling for the 5 demands the demands including universal suffrage and an independent investigation into the police to be met a lot of people who are here won't be surprised that kerry lam in that weekly address didn't offer any further concessions didn't meet any more of those 5 demands they've long lost faith in the fact that she might deliver those demands they say that she if she hasn't delivered them up and to this point almost 6 months now into this protest movement and they're not sure exactly when she will when she will do that people here now just wanting to take to the streets to keep up momentum and she really proved that they are still willing to keep going now that
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they have had this boost these protesters from this election landslide this really was a landslide for those pro-democracy candidates on kerry lam in fact she acknowledged the results of the vote charlotte what else did she have to say. well you say no concession she said that she was willing to listen she said that she would also accept that there were some deficiencies within her own government in the way that it's handled the violence the time it's taken to handle the violence as well that fight comes a day after a statement where she also acknowledged that this vote was a landslide victory let's take a listen to what she had to say just a short time ago in that media briefing but we will where of the large number of voters coming out to cast a vote perhaps not only you to select a preferred candidate to sit on the district council but also to express
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a view on many issues in society including i would readily assad including deficiencies in governance including unhappiness with the time taken to deal with the current unstable environment and of course to end its. violence charlotte what happens next. we are expecting protests to continue over the coming days not only these lunchtime protests which have become something of a a day thing in the week but more people taking to the streets last night in particular we saw hundreds of people gathered outside hong kong polytechnic university seram show your member that was the scene of major clashes. over the last week here people students protesters still holed up inside there is unknown how many still left inside but we do know that conditions that really are
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deteriorating people unwilling to leave on winning with the the whole campus surrounded feeling that they will be arrested and charged with rising which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison that really has become a rallying point for the protesters here they're calling for the days who is still inside that campus to be allowed to leave seek medical attention and to avoid arrest here as well in hong kong charlottes also impel in hong kong thank you. you're watching news still to come on the program the political stalemate between israel and the palestinians has left people in gaza living in limbo visit one boy whose cancer diagnosis illustrates what's at stake. in peru there were cheers and anger on the streets of the capital even after the constitutional court ordered the release of opposition leader fujimori she set to walk free later this week after spending more than a year in pretrial detention but the corruption charges against her remain active she still faces
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a court battle to clear her name. a controversial court ruling that prompted hundreds to pour into the streets of paris capital in anger sparking clashes with police. caught these protesters the decision to free opposition leader kate who for 2 mori is a slap in the face of justice you know i think that public opinion has become clear that the party of keiko fujimori has received large amounts of money from the main economic groups of the country. their frustration heightened by the court's emphasis that fujimori hasn't been cleared of the corruption charges against her release means she's still awaiting trial but on the other side of the prison bars. the fujimori supporters that's of course the celebration among them her husband who has been on hunger strike in
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a bid to get his wife freed. i want to thank these judges who are so brave so on orrible to leave politics aside despite the immediate pressure from the prosecutor and make a completely fair decision. the eldest daughter of disgraced former president albert that you morry keiko is accused of accepting illicit party funding from brazilian construction giant crashed. once korea's most popular politician keiko fujimori could now theoretically campaign for presidential elections due in july 2021 but with her popularity hit hard by the corruption scandal she faces a tough challenge to win back her former supporters. of treating cancer on the gaza strip the best option is to go to israel for the right therapy but that means leaving home and family and jumping through administrative hoops it's
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a symptom of how the decades long conflict in the region affects the most. personal stories we follow one teenager who had to leave everything that she knew in order to get a shot at a future. mahmoud is 13 years old she was diagnosed with bone cancer 18 months ago before that he was a talented soccer player who loved singing. his father manages to keep the family going with odd jobs but he has no idea how he'll ever manage to pay for his son's treatment in that you can imagine what it's like you have a son he's happy healthy boy you play soccer he's always having fun even one of the best players then comes the shock of your life. my dad was standing outside our house when i found out that i had cancer he didn't want to come in i saw him crying and i said to him dad you mustn't give up i don't want to see
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a single tear fall. but it's hard to find hope here in the overcrowded oncology unit at a hospital in gaza city there's a shortage of most things medicines painkillers and medical equipment a diagnosis like mark hood's can resemble a death sentence. dr knew immediately he wouldn't be able to help mahmoud under such conditions and that his best chance for survival would be through treatment outside of the gaza strip the doctor a 1st time to a clinic in east jerusalem he knows that will mean an unpredictable journey for mahmoud because even a sick palestinian child cannot easily enter israel. mahmoud has become quieter over the course of his illness he hasn't been to school for a year his father doesn't want him to lose contact with his friends so as often as
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possible he takes them to an aid organization that has afternoon care for kids. meanwhile father has to apply for his son's travel to east jerusalem hundreds of relatives of seriously ill patients are waiting for the travel permit 1st the palestinian national authority has to agree to the trip and then the israeli government has to approve it. the permit finally arrives and the trip is set to begin in the early morning. but locke who doesn't want to leave he doesn't want to be away from his siblings or his parents he wants to stay at home and he's terrified of dying. and. finally his parents managed to convince him to go with his grandmother at his side . then at the border there's another surprise his grandmother
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is not allowed to leave gaza and no reason is given instead mahmoud's mother will know accompanying her son but they have to leave immediately. then it finally happens mahmoud and his mother enter israel together. to victoria hospital is on the mount of olives in east jerusalem. mahmoud's treatment this time lasts 4 hours. of course i think about dying we read verses from the koran we pray more we ask god to help us. now over the course of several months mahmud has had 30 chemo sessions in east jerusalem. and he's doing well. the doctors say he is cheering and that one day he may even be able to play soccer again. now scientists have measured the heart rate of the world's largest animal for the
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1st time using a combination of daring and dexterity in a maneuver timed to coincide with the blue whale surfacing the team attached a sensor pack. on the animal's body the data recorded it gives a valuable insight into the beast's feeding habits and it also suggests that a blue whales heart is working to its limits which could explain why no animal has ever evolved to be bigger than these majestic marine creatures. and sports news now and a key committee of the world anti-doping agency says that russia should be hit with a 4 year ban from the olympics and other major competitions it made the recommendation after doping data taken from a moscow laboratory was deleted or altered the world anti-doping agency as executive committee will make a final ruling next month if the ban is implemented clean russian athletes would be forced to compete as neutrals at next year's tokyo olympics and the 2022 beijing
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winter games. and in european soccer the champions league is back on tuesday with paris sounds i'm on strip to rail madrid one of the key fixtures to watch record champions madrid lost the 1st game between the 2 teams and qualification for the last 16 becomes complicated if they lose again real madrid's coach finds himself in a precarious position it's the pressure is on xina didn't sit down and his real madrid side they welcome p.s.g. knowing a loss could put their chances of qualifying from group by under serious threats. the independent given to this will put 0 as support you must have no matter what but this is the most important match of the season they must conclude you want to win because it's our next match. and against a very good opponent to support those team which is among the best sides noise. going to demand
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a lot for months we know that. they can start but we have to be ready. throughout the build up as a down has been forced to defend the style forward gareth bale off to the welshman posed with a flag mocking his commitment to the club why. away on international duty last week because him much more to much of course and much agree there's been a lot of noise about. the most important the but the important thing to me as a coach and to him as a player in and is to just focus on football. everybody has an opinion. should rayo lose to p.s.g. they could potentially be eliminated in their final group stage fixture at belgian side club. despite lifting 3 champions league titles already as the coach of real madrid and with the club now tied at the top of the league a failure to reach the knockout stages of the competition would surely result in his sacking. and as for the german clubs byron munich have already gone through to
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the knockout stages of the champions league but by oliver couzin a big job on their hands to still try and qualify laver couzin are 3rd in their group and have flown off to meet lokomotiv moscow realistically they need to win in russia to have a chance of going through even that it would all come down to the last match day next month when they host mighty you but it's. your watching today you know from berlin don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that's at d w dot com finally what's age got to do with it tina turner is turning 80 on tuesday the face of rock n roll down the decades turner is now enjoying retirement at her swiss chateau but we can still continue to enjoy her music thank you so much for watching and do
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