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i am. this news coming to you live from berlin germany and america remembers the victims of one of the last crimes against humanity she made some 1st official visit to the smiths def jam causing beneath that infamous slogan makes you free feel hope fox would. ever feel again because the nazis mudded more than a 1000000 people at auschwitz most of them jews also coming up. deserted stations schools and hospitals as films faces a 2nd day of a nationwide strike public sector workers are protesting against proposed pension
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reforms. and added a dynamic duo called the top a chance i'm going to mack and jill new social democratic party is expected this weekend to confront its 2 leaders and they're challenging the coalition deal and their boss he has with them that is conservative. tolerable welcome to you i'm. jill and johnson is on their 1st official visit to the former death camp the site was the nazis a largest death camp during the 2nd was born merkel's visit and last the 10th anniversary of the foundation in charge of preserving the memorial day the chancellor paid tribute to the victims of the camp and spoke of the necessity of room. remembering the atrocities committed there. let's listen in to part of what
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she had to say identify the perpetrators and to commemorate victims in a dignified manner that is our enduring responsibility it is not open to negotiation and it is an integral part and will forever be an integral part of our country acknowledging that crisp on civility is an integral part of our national identity theft protection act as an enlightened and liberal society as a democracy where rule of law reigns so that was speaking a short while ago at the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp we'll have more on the story later in the bulletin but 1st let me bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild a huge fire is heading towards australia's largest city sydney authorities say the blaze formed out of a series of bush fires and is burning out of control in the north of the city climate change is being blamed for the fires that have been raging for months.
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years democratic presidential candidate joe biden has scored a voter at a campaign event a damn liar the man suggested biden had helped to sunland a lucrative job at a ukrainian oil for president trump's efforts to push that claim about biden at the heart of an impeachment inquiry against him. in india 4 men accused of raping and killing a 27 year old woman have been shot dead by police authorities say the men were killed as they try to escape custody in the city of hi there bad the case has sparked nationwide protests of a violence against women and some people have been celebrating the deaths of the suspects. a hero's welcome hundreds gathered to shower police with gifts as news of the suspects death spread people across india have praised the actions of these police after years of anger over
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authorities slow response to rising sexual violence against women on the beat of what questionable many are all glad today the victim was the daughter of our society so we have all gotten justice from now on whenever someone even thinks of doing such a thing they will think long and hard before doing it will be as a lesson learned 3 years authorities say the men were brought to the suspected crime scene to reenact their alleged killing police say the suspects then trying to seize their weapons and escape the officers responded by opening fire for the family of the victim who cannot be named for legal reasons justice has been served . but i would like to thank and congratulate the regional government police and old those who supported me i hurt my daughter so it is now in peace. with. the men were suspected of raping murdering and burning the body of
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a 27 year old woman last week she was found under a bridge the next day. but not everyone is celebrating the suspects deaths family members of the accused man were distraught at the news the foreman had not been formally charged with any crime opposition groups accused police of taking the law into their own hands to pacify the public they are calling for a store investigation. turning now to france which is bracing for more disruption as the country's longest strike in decades enters its 2nd day public sector workers join mass rallies across the country and if a test is against president in modern the craws plans to reform the pension system public transport schools and hospitals were seriously disrupted each union is deciding how long to keep its members out on the streets but further protests are expected on friday and in the days ahead.
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you're very loud very angry and united in their opposition to the policies of french president i'm on your mark all. some cities saw heavy clashes between protesters and security forces in paris small groups of masked activists smashed store windows set fires and hurled flares. earlier in the day one of france's largest mobilizations in decades looked a bit different thousands came to protest pension reforms or a strikers say for the rights of future generations for their pension and security barrier for trade. who don't have enough to make ends meet and this reform will make things worse all the engine than issued by my free time myself in 10 years time and i'm not sure i'll be able to survive on what my car is proposing it's not simple. the protests shut down public schools nationwide subway stations across
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paris were closed and 9 out of 10 high speed trains were canceled. many of the capital's most famous tourist attractions was shot leaving tourists frustrated but strike supporters say the measures are necessary due to the frustration they feel with the french government. they give off and is it going as he says i want to say the money and who is the $1.00 class who pay the price after he cuts an acceptable that's a fact if there's money there the people in power the capitalists have to pay you duffy they know how to find money for not make deals it is their turn the world upside down and they want us to pay even but we don't agree with that you went on in the political trade unions called a strike of the government's pension plans many fear the proposals would increase their work time and reduce their pensions polls have seen high public support for the strike so far. as several forces united for this it's really big
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there are a students nurses and doctors lawyers and yellow vests like me as usual. you needn't say they might extend the strike as far as monday. and he said because one of these a louis is standing in front of god in nord in which is one of the city's busiest railway stations another difficult day for commuters what can they expect today. well the public transport sector is still largely at a standstill here in france where people yesterday well they knew about the strike and many people plan for their state and home work from home took a day off but now things are different today people want to go back to work and that's why this morning there was lots of traffic jam actually around paris specially the 300 kilometers of traffic jam people trying to get to the city especially as the local transport system the air are a.t.p. the metro is still not working properly so people are trying to get back to work
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but the country is really largely blocked yet and this is how much public support is there for the demands of the unions. while they're the majority of the fans are in favor of the strike and support the demonstrate the protesters many people here understand that the pension system needs to be reformed in some way but they don't trust president to do the right thing they think that those who are already struggling to make ends meet are probably have less money after the reforms so they're asking him to change things but they're asking him to take away money from richer people and not from poorer people reforming the pension system was part of a man in the cross election campaign pledge so how is he now reacting to these strikes and this opposition. yes you're right that was one of the centerpieces of his program when he was running for president and he knows that this reform is crucial
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for him and in order to maintain the support of the voters who are still supporting him when he came to power he was saying you know i'm neither from the left neither nor from the right but he has now after a few years largely lost support from left wing voters the center right voters that still support him trust him because they believe that he can reform the country so he knows that getting through this reform might prove crucial and when it comes to his chances to get reelected in 2022 and what can we expect in terms of protest action in the coming days. the strike is going to go on teachers are still on strike hospitals are still on strike transfer unions have said that they will continue would continue for a few days at least until next monday and there are more demonstrations planned over the weekend not really pension reform demonstrations but you know julie's on yellow vests demonstrations then won by a union against
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a recent labor market reform unemployment benefit reform and climate strike and you can expect more to cations between the police and demonstrators over the weekend more strike days to come the government will try to negotiate with the strikers with the demonstrators and find a solution they said that they would announce the details of the reform next week and they will try to calm down people and hoping that they will be able indeed to push through this reform lisa lewis in paris thank you very much for that update on the strike action in the country. and it out into our top story. is visiting. with death camp that's the 1st official visit as the chancellor decides was the nazis launches death counting the 2nd was will make his visit last the 10th anniversary of the foundation in charge of preserving the memorial that mecca is being thanks a bit to the victims of the camp alongside with the polish prime minister and other
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dignitaries. john better joins me now in the studio welcome john we had a look at the set of bodies live as they were going on tell me what were your impressions of what they had to say it was their 1st visit there as john's laugh i thought and research he was visibly very moved by particularly when she was listening to the former inmates of auschwitz who was the 1st speaker he spoke about his memories of being made to strip naked as a little boy really a 12 year old with his mother also naked there and other women and people around and there's the whole humiliating experience that they were put through of course the whole purpose of of the nazi concentration camps where he took jews before apart from exterminating them was just want to humiliate them and make them feel subhuman and i thought he communicated that very well i could the camera kept going
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on the magical face and she was as i say visibly moved by that and she feels very strongly about this issue doesn't see it because some people have these questions why did she wait 14 years before she went to this particular death camp that she was at at yad vashem was a member yes several times and she was also the 1st one to it's also to address the israeli parliament which is also has done the other former concentration camps nazi concentration camps there are dozens if not hundreds of former nazi concentration camps and perhaps it's also just as important for the chancellor to draw attention to that fact as to go to the one. which is off the old sinner. animists with the with the shoah but she did talk with a deep sense of shame she felt she said that in the israeli parliament and to say that again today as a gentleman standing there at this extermination camp she felt a deep sense of shame when you know she of course she grew up in east german in communist east germany with the the 3rd because when she was a little girl at school and learning about the nazi period of german history it was
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presented of course as a conflict between communism the goodies on the ones that i and the baddies the bad germans nazis on the other and the jewish the extermination of the jews was of course an issue that was mentioned but it wasn't the main focus it was only in 19912 years after the war came down when she was in. i mean she was a junior minister in chance to have a cold cabinet that she went to israel in the 1st visit and she visited the yad vashem the central memorial for the holocaust and she was shot at by she said she's the chancellor who said that the existence of israel is fundamental to germany's identity the security of the state of israel and this is because of this sense of historical responsibility that she has now highly symbolic visit comes at a time when the singular rise of anti-semitism across europe but also in germany
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what did she say about that well i thought this is one the most interesting aspects of what was a very very interesting and 13 and speech it wasn't simply focused on memory as such memory for its own sake to honor those people who have a right to be remembered who were who were murdered in such a heinous fashion as she she was didn't she stressed also the relevance of that to the present time into the future that is only with memory of dreadful things that happened in the past that we have a chance at all of prevent them happening we know of course they have been genocide since i think particularly of rwanda for example simply remembering the shoah doesn't guarantee that we won't have. atrocities performed in the future but it is a prerequisite for even attempting to prevent that and and there is this rise as you mention it is not simply a question of perceived rise and the semitism it is it has been supported by e.u.
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studies conducted over a period of 5 years and there is a very worrying phenomenon the numbers to prove the rise of descendants of them and the number of attacks have gone in but all this because they actually talked about this importance of remembrance john betty thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us on this very important story a historic visit by chance american to the auschwitz birkenau death camps. here in germany a political shakeup in the social democratic party is prompting speculation that the governing coalition which owns the anglo metals conservatives could be on its last legs the social democrats are said to officially confirm the new readers should do it at this weekend's sponsored conference and their calling for change is a chance to uncle i'm actually really find unpalatable let's hear what the incoming s.p.d. co-leader saskia s. can have to say. i was and am still skeptical about the future of the grand coalition my riding my opinion on that hasn't changed these were this proposal we
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are giving the coalition a realistic chance of continuing nothing more and nothing less may all of our machinery go in from the. now keep brady up little correspondents following the it's pretty spotty conference which is going on in berlin and she joins me from the kids series more about how the new leadership presented itself to the conference. well if anyone was still expecting a revolution from the social democratic party conference here in berlin they said they won't be getting one today i'm retirees turned into a very come affair and as we heard there from saskia as the idea of a quick exit from the grand coalition government with angela merkel's conservatives seems to be very much off the table at least for now of course there are still concessions and issues that the social democrats want to discuss with their conservative coalition partners but it seems at least for now the grand coalition
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as it's known grow co seems to have lived to see another day of course they in their speeches if a head of the electorate the vote later today in which the delegates will officially confirm the jew i as the new leaders of the social democrats they both had some rather harsh words for the full the conservative coalition partners not least of all and all but vote of boy and he particularly focused on some international issues calling on better cooperation in the european union for example but also criticized the german government's obsession as it was with keeping a balanced budget the infamous the no law black because they're 0 as it's known here in germany and instead he wants to see more investment into education into infrastructure digitalisation and also cause a climate protection policy here in germany so these old part of the concessions
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which the social democrats now want to try and discuss with their conservative coalition partners so we'll have to see whether the conservatives will be ready to renegotiate anything or even discuss any possible concessions in the coalition deal which was agreed at the beginning of 2018 and kid it does seem that especially one of the younger members of the social democrats is a graduate of discontent over the issues that you. just mentioned and they would like some kind of a renegotiation with chancellor angela merkel's conservative party how do you see the the rest of the conference fanning out will this discontent within the party be addressed specially among the younger members briefly if you can. there is this content there it will be interesting to see later today there will be. just among the delegates to elect the deputy leaders and one of the big names to look out for that is michael kevin crooner you might have already had on your radar he's
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currently the leader of the youth group of the social democrats longtime critic of the grand coalition in recent days he said that he too is against a quick exit from the coalition but is very much against continuing this in the long term and we could certainly see the posse moving further left if he is indeed elected as one of the deputy leaders of the social democrats later today so that's certainly one regime which we might see this discontent with the grand coalition with the with the current half of the social democrats really becoming a reality in playing out in the future policy of the social democrats vidia the s.p.d. party conference thank you very much for keeping track of developments that. you've got indeed have been used let's turn to some other news a 6 story building has collapsed in kenya's capital nairobi authorities say some people could be trapped in the debris military personnel have arrived to assist
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with the search and rescue operation after locals pulled still survive 10 survivors from the rubble with their bare hands. the world health organization says the number of deaths from mazes is on the rise the latest figures show the disease killed 140000 people last year nearly 15 percent in the before its sides failure to vaccinate children as a key reason for the increases. and now to animal conservation the mountain gorillas of rwanda were on the brink of extinction but after a concerted campaign their numbers are rising again a decade ago they were just $680.00 but now they're more the death house and their status has changed from critically endangered to just endangered so how did that happen let's take a look. a very rare sight this mountain gorilla is one of just over a 1000 left in the mountain forests spreading across congo uganda and rwanda their
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numbers have increased significantly in only one decade thanks to close tracking and constant monitoring health births every movement of every single girl is recorded. to be named. and. every baby girl is named in an annual ceremony in one of the villages bordering the forests. these ceremonies have become hugely popular and it invites celebrities to spotlight conservation work and help people in the villages to learn about gorillas. and. we don't want to solve the protect the park with the guns. protected of course of
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this park with people who understand and. that is possibilities as well and the that is. really. sustainable conservation strictly regulated guerrilla tourism has created a sustainable income with tourists paying a $1500.00 u.s. dollars per visit government steers 10 percent of tourism revenue from volcanoes national park to build infrastructure and surrounding villages including health clinics and schools to date about $2000000.00 u.s. dollars have gone into funding village projects 21 year old. loves the gorillas in his free time he works as a porter accompanying tourist to the guerrillas. once i'm done with my study i want to become
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a god i want to make money so i can look after my family. consideration is praised for its concerted efforts to save mountain gorillas from becoming extinct but they also warn that after all gorillas are still considered endangered . funny to some boxing nonwhite the most eagerly anticipated fights of the year takes place on saturday when a mexican american and his defense is heavyweight titles against britain's antony josh rees stunned the sporting world when he beat the previously undefeated joshua earlier this year now the rematch is grabbing headlines across the globe and that's partly because the bulge is being held in saudi arabia. and the ruiz became one of boxing's most unlikely champions in june and now he faces anthony joshua in the rematch at an unlikely venue on the outskirts of the saudi capital riyadh. saudi
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arabia has increasingly opened itself up to tourism this year and the boxing is one of a series of big sporting events planned italian football super cup boasting christiane and ronaldo already took place in jeddah earlier this year this season's match and the spanish version including real madrid and barcelona take place in the kingdom in the coming weeks. the idea of holding big sporting events in saudi arabia has been condemned by the likes of amnesty international they believe the country should not be a major sporting venue because of its human rights record and last year's murder of journalist to market should she by saudi agents in istanbul put the saudis of porn huge amounts of money into sports they've paid a reported $40000000.00 to bring britain's joshua to the country local residents are excited to be the focus of the sporting world for a weekend it's a safe area near lake and to come true earlier this oath even guaranteed them to do
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it to assure and excited that a current. joshua could pick up more than $16000000.00 from the fight as he attempts to gain revenge for his shock defeat in new york. i'm just going to win i know i can do it always this post last time so next time i won't listen ruiz will probably make only around $9000000.00 that's because he was only drafted in as a last minute replacement for june's bout he still won and now is enjoying being feted as a heavyweight champion by his saudi hosts i thought out of me and i are but he's been treating me with. especially enjoying that they're really good with that they have here in this country and i'm just excited for the 5 saudi arabia is in the sporting spotlight like never before. if that last fight is anything to go by louise against joshua could be a classic. the end that's it for me i'm such you must thank you very much for being
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