this is the news live from berlin panic on london bridge central london is on lockdown this evening following a terrorist attack and left 2 people dead and several more injured officers responding to a stabbing at london bridge near the u.k. parliament eyewitness video shows civilians tackling a man on the bridge before police shoot day the suspected attacker. he would expect to triple make sure the incident we respond to this very this was terrorist related are not a position to provoke that it has prepared

a terrorist groups of last friday's for future goes to global again thousands of young people take part in rallies around the world the call to action comes ahead of next week's un climate summit and political turmoil in malta where prime minister josef most orderly plans to resign as the deepening crisis sparked by a journalist's murder involves his closest allies we'll talk to our correspondent in blunt. i'm called aspen ball come to the program in london police say they have shot and killed a man wearing a hoax explosive device on london bridge after a stabbing attack british media is reporting that 2 people were killed means act footage posted on social media shows a man in civilian clothes wrestling with a person believed to be the attacker. surrounded by armed police other civilians

back away one of them appears to be holding a large knife now footage also shows police checking a white truck which is parked across london bridge emergency services including ambulances were quickly on the scene there. this is once british prime minister boris johnson said this evening i can assure you assure everyone that anybody involved in this crime in these attacks will be on to darwin and will be brought to justice this country will never be carload or divided or intimidated by this sort of attack and our values values will prevail we're joined now by olivia b.'s oh she was near the scene of today's incidents in london a livia thank you for joining us that must have been of course a traumatic day there and what can you tell us about what happened what did you see . well i was on my way towards the bridge and i was coming out on

my bike i had explosions at the time i can only assume that it was gunshots but then the police came and stopped all the cars and i thought it was the construction i wasn't really thinking and then continue going straight on to the pavement and then all of a sudden floods of incredibly panic people are just hoarding towards me and literally sprinting for their lives and i was just so confused and didn't know what was happening until i started running with them and sort of asking what was going on and one of the people screaming it was gunshots it was gunshots and so then well people started running and it was just a massive tonneau sounds like a chaotic scene there i mean we understand also that the suspect was wearing some sort of fake explosive device did you see or hear anything or late it's a vats as people were running away was there a bigger fear that there could be a potential explosion on the bridge i think that when we knew what was going

a lot of people were just sort of saying there was an explosion there were attacks that was something and everyone was just kind of running and didn't really know what they were running from apart from that he had actually see what happened i personally didn't see the actual attack but i just saw the people running away from him the mayor of london con he's praising the efforts of bystanders today he's calling them heroic what did you see him how were citizens responding to the incident obviously there was panic but there also were people actually going towards the alleged attacker. yeah well that i only really understood afterwards because i didn't know what was going on i just saw people running towards me and so i just sort of continue going along with them and trying to figure out what's happened but obviously afterwards realizing and looking on the news and looking at twitter and seeing the people who had actually been involved in getting the knife

in the man it's incredible and i think it's incredibly important to show that it's sort of makes you where i can you know mass scene of extreme panic. how people react and i do think it does so people's to a character and that some people actually went towards it to save people's lives and i think that's incredible and we've of course don't know the motive yet police saying this is being treated as a terrorist attack there was a similar attack in the same area and then 2017 as a londoner given all the political divisions in your city and in the u.k. right now how do with tax like this make you feel about your city. i think fearful but then living in a city like london you always kind of know that there's a risk of something happening so service specially in today's well. but it still is incredibly scary to think that it could have been you and others are now going to actually half an hour before it happens. so incredibly afraid but then again i also think there is a sort of sense of the general election never anything that's been going on of

blacks in this country i feel like the country is just so divided it and so when you have something like this it is sort of a feeling afterwards of bringing everyone together in a sort of sense of. sort of solidarity amongst everyone i want to clear in their midst all the divisions that have been taking place in this kind of time. and i will thank you very much for joining us to libya because though she was near london bridge today when that incident took place thank you for taking the time to speak with us. our now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world china has reacted angrily to president trump's approval of measures backing pro-democracy activists in hong kong beijing says it will take quote firm countermeasures against the u.s. if it continues to meddle in its domestic affairs but the pro-democracy supporters welcomed the move celebrating what it called a major boost to its push for more local political control and more autonomy from

china in south korea k. pop star jones june young has been sentenced for 6 years in prison to 6 years in prison for raping a woman with another k. pop star john also secretly filmed the rape and shared the video online a pop star choi john who was sentenced to 5 years in prison rescue crews in albania are winding down their operation to find survivors of tuesday's deadly earthquake the operation is now focused on a collapsed beachfront hotel in the port town of duras 49 people have been confirmed dead across the region rocked by the 6.4 magnitude quake. to iraq now where prime minister abdul mahdi says he will present his resignation to parliament his offer to step down comes a day after 40 people were killed in the latest clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters the death toll since unrest broke out in october has now surpassed $400.00. a victory for protesters here celebrating in baghdad the

prime minister says he'll resign amid relentless protests they've been demanding change since october in some of the country's most sustained and deadly clashes. am. over 400 people are now dead many of them on 2 young men and a staggering 17000 have been injured. most of the dead were killed by iraq's security forces. on thursday alone over 60 people were killed after protesters set fire to the rain in government buildings the protesters see the political class as corrupt and a puppet of outside forces especially iran. after thursday's bloodshed iraq's grand ayatollah alsa stanny used friday prayers to urge the prime minister to go. imagine this and no way out. or

on the members of parliament from which this current government has emerged to reconsider their options in this regard oh archie he may have a shot. but for the protesters it's just the beginning they do want to the minister to send a message that the resignation of prime minister maliki is not solving the entire problem the problem is about the system that brought him in they would be delusional if they think they can use him as a scapegoat and that the people will withdraw from the streets after his resignation was the most. violent clashes continued on friday in the holy city of new jeff just as new circulated that the prime minister was resigning the funerals continued to testament to the government's brutal response to this protest movement . earlier we spoke to journalist mostafa saleem in baghdad and we asked him if

those developments will calm the unrest. no it's not going to come down before that they're actually going to clean them or increase their numbers when i went there today to check that square they were celebrating they were tears of joy that they finally accomplished something but they're saying that this is not what they came for only for. pushing away the prime minister they want to overthrow the whole system they want to change because they want to change the election law in a way that allows them to directly elect their prime minister not in this way when they voted for a party and the party have collision with each other nominate someone they want to change the constitution and the election low and then they will they want to have an early election which is not going to happen unless the parliament with vote on that and apologise so which hasn't been done yet the thing that always there why

they are saying that is the victory for them because finally they manage a 3rd term of think around $400.00 people died out of the violence they voted to do this but it's not enough for them they are seeking for and i was journalist in a stop asylum in baghdad you're watching t.v. and it was still to come there women in the male dominated by the world of kung fu these himalayan buddhist nuns are using their training to spend. the 1st young climate activists around the world took to the streets in the force global fridays for future strike they're demanding the governments to step up their efforts to cut carbon emissions and they're sending a message to the un climate change conference which will begin in madrid next week here in berlin thousands of young activists protested in the city center. in berlin it might have been the consumer frenzy of black friday for some but on the streets

here and around the world people were on strike for fridays for a future a party atmosphere pervaded alongside the placards some took a dip in the city's river spray to draw attention to rising sea levels others simply felt compelled to demonstrate that it is and why are we here well there is a massive climate crisis unknown is doing anything it's crazy not to to us the saw 1st look on the other side of the world in australia the call to arms of our houses on fire led to protests a metaphor for some but for others here in sydney it's a painful reality. i. think. i think. really. what.

residents here are living on the front line of this crisis and the effects apparent if you saw the crowd shape it was some people couldn't come out because of the. long. really really telling that people cannot actually. i mean it's so bad in the philippines sistas was doing it for the planet leading a march of hundreds to demand action. it was a more subdued picture in seoul where the friday protests have struggles to capture the imagination. but in india the roots of this movement as an impassioned call to galvanize the youth into something of a revolution where clearly evident. as we feel it is really really important for children to get parts in the movie. roger is right is a good all about the system genes and it's about finally getting your weight is

about to be moving does not match you know an environment making them on the ball but do not want to see me. they turned out in south africa to with some laying that bodies on the ground to make a statement about the impact that the rampant consumerism of black friday is having on a global ecosystem. or people also took to the streets in washington d.c. demanding action on climate change earlier we spoke to our correspondent all of our salat who was there we asked him what do activists say they want to see happen especially after the u.s. made that decision to withdraw from the u.n. paris agreed. yeah that's right they withdrew effect of november 2020 you want to protesters that i've been able to talk to are demanding is simply that the united states can go back to the paris climate agreement and that they actually even do more than what's agreed on in this in this deal they wanted that

the temperature rise would stay below 1.5 percent sales to us but i also asked them about the role the president trump plays and if they have a specific message for him and they say they don't have any message for the president they just want another president here in the united states because they believe that there can't be any progress made with the current u.s. president here in the united states. but ukrainian government officials have lashed out at u.s. tech giant apple for displaying the cream am peninsula as part of russian territory russia annexed the pencil in 2014 in a move that's been condemned by most of the global community joining me here for more on that is d w reporter isa if now what more can you tell us about that the i'm assuming it has to do with apple maps something on a map right that's right this move came just recently and it comes off as almost a little bit sneaky because it was announced by apple's announced by the russian government actually and if you look on your phone here in germany on my i phone it

looks the same as it did a few weeks ago or crimea is actually not listed as belonging to any country at all but we asked our moscow bureau to send us some screenshots of what it looks like there and we can take a look at that now basically what we're seeing what we're going to see 1st is just a shot with german settings so this is from russia but with german settings then they change the russians that things and you can see under the address under crimea you're going to see it right now russia says that crimea belongs to russia so basically that's the most obvious change they also change the dotted line to a dash line which suggests that it's a country to a national division and not just a territorial division. but this is only if you're a russian living in russia that apple maps is telling you that crimea which was annexed by russian is not recognized by the international community belongs to russia so daunted lines of words change here or there only taking place in russia they seem like subtle changes what's the reaction been though from ukraine well

ukrainians are outraged by this because they like the international community does not recognize crimea as being part of russia or other part of ukraine and the foreign minister took to twitter and he was outraged let's take a look at what he said he said i phones are great products seriously though apple please please stick to high tech and intertainment global politics is not your strong side hash tag crimea as you can. this is the hashtag that's come up a lot recently with complaints over apple and things like this. but i think this incident shows that actually making moves is a political exercise and apple of basically just gave in to russian government pressure to make this change so clearly craning not happy about this is there really anything they can do i mean apple's a powerful tech company right well some people on twitter have called for a boycott against apple some people said this is the last time i buy an i phone but i think they're in for a rude surprise of this which to enjoy because actually google took the 1st step

and they change their minds back in 2014 right after russia and it's all right so you know where to go if you want to that to stay neutral in your maps on the an east of things are much let's go for. our. sources are reporting that prime minister joseph will resign quote imminently his government has become increasingly embroiled in the political and legal crisis sparked by the murder of journalist daphne carr juana. she was investigating government corruption when she was killed in a car bomb attack 2 years ago. at 3 in the morning prime minister joseph gave a press conference he was upset by the investigation into death to the car want to believe he has murdered and the alleged involvement of his close colleagues for us this was not just a murder this was a major case that shook our democracy many people greatly doubt that actually did everything possible to solve the murder of journalist. she was killed by

a car bomb on october 16th 2017 last week the investigation into who contracted the murder led to the maltese energy entrepreneur york and finish allegedly he had transferred money via dubai to companies in panama these companies apparently belong to most cuts tourism minister conrad miti and his chief of staff keith embry both resigned earlier this week co want to go ahead researched suspected corruption at the highest government level this week many demanded most cuts resignation they say he has blood on his hands because he trying to protect officials stay through both feasible one sentence we investigate. found no evidence and released him they won't talk to believe that according to maltese media most cut intends to announce his resignation soon. well joining me now from malta is correspondent barbara

vessel now barbara maltese media reports that prime minister joseph most plans to quote resign imminently yeah i mean but imminently maybe is a relative term i mean i was hours ago do we know what's going on behind closed doors there. it seems to still imminent because everybody here is still waiting for it has been like that since the afternoon televised address was announced for. 7 30 in the evening but it didn't happen so far and we don't quite know what the joseph muskat is now sort of waiting to be pushed or whether he can't find the day the way to the door of his presidential palace here in the background there has been massive problems and infighting and distrust and fury and they scavenge meeting last night many ministers sort of stood up against him and said we can carry on like this you just have to step down we've lost all credibility and so he really is being forced out and it seems he's just sort of dragging his feet and

trying to find some sort of dignified looking way to to leave office but in the end it seems totally. he there's no way around he just has to do it because his own people seem to have turned against him now on the one hand we have the political turmoil there on malta but what would his resignation mean for this murder investigation i mean would this help to bring any justice for what was essentially the murder of an investigative journalist. it seems rather. clear that the murder investigation once must go to step down and once this whole web of conspiracy and of sort of one hand washing the other and everybody being protected by those higher up an office here once this web a story and that things will really be blown up into the open we saw earlier this afternoon you are going fenech the main suspect this businessman who was supposed

to order the hit against definitely sia. emerge from the court to building here in malta and he sort of turned to journalists and said now the truth will come out and he has promised that he would tell all that he would really is sort of the point the finger at the people in government who are implied in this murder and who in the end we're the ones to sort of send out the hit men that put the bomb into her car so it might really be the case that things come you know come tumbling down as soon as the government is gone the protection is gone and not not for nothing do do citizens here yell mafia mafia when they're sort of protesting against the government this is really what it looks like it's a mafia film in real life and barbara we're looking at pictures of protests of citizens talking about corruption in briefly if you can what has this entire scandal done for the people there in

a country in malta and their belief in the rule of law and democracy. as in so many countries in the world right now if you look around the globe there is a palpable anger here in people say we want democracy restored we don't want to be a banana republic without the bananas we really really want to be a democratic state that has some dignity that has a reputation their reputation on the world stage and they are really ready to fight for that and come out for that and protos as long as it takes to get back to get their country back in order to be correspondent barbara faisal for us in malta thank you very much. when the himalayan region the world of kung fu is traditionally a male world but these women behind me. behind me are nuns from a 1000 year old buddhist order spread across to paul in india and they're using their training to send out

a message of equal. like everybody was. similarly in the backpack. using an ancient discipline to come back a centuries old prejudice. one. gender equality because there are not many nuns who have been there not many girls i guess in the himalayas will have been. like an example but out. these numbers are part of a progressive school of tibetan buddhism that encourages its followers to fight the patriarchy. the i aim is to lead by example in a region where girls are often seen as a burden. in all the. good. but i

think. it's a pain in the community that's have left behind for many many. the women say the martial art goes hand in hand with their practice of buddhism. and is embolden them to spread their empowerment they've now given self-defense workshops to almost $400.00 girls across the region and then. we. go on there won't be a poor. person. for the nuns it's a graceful move for equality it will take time and patience. this is the news and these are our top stories in london police shot and killed

a man after several people were stabbed on london bridge british media say 2 people were killed in the knife attack the suspected attacker was tackled by civilians before being shot by police authorities say they are treating it as a terrorist incident. iraq's prime minister idella dual mahdi says he will present his resignation to parliament the move comes after weeks of anti-government protests more than 400 people have been killed since the protests began in october demonstrators are protesting against government corruption and unemployment. maltose prime minister joseph most got will reportedly resign come under pressure from the probe into the murder of journalist daphne carr won a. she was investigating government corruption when she was killed in the car bomb attack 2 years ago. protesters are taking to the streets in the 4th global climate strike today climate activists said protests took place in more than

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