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this is d.w. news live from balenciaga in london after britain's conservative party secures an overwhelming election victory protestors confronted they said they won't accept boris johnson lose their prime minister mr johnson's conservatives sweeping. absolute majority in parliament on a promise to get. also on the program u.s. lawmakers approved impeachment proceedings against president trump pusing him of abusing his power and obstructing congress to trying to sell the 4th president to american history to have to face on the beach when folks. disagree
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a green deal to make a cure of carbon neutral by 2050 but heavy coal use of coal and get some. gets a firsthand account of life inside china's internment camps for its minority inmates a promise for speaking their own language from their subjected to abuse and daily humiliations. welcome to the program we begin britain where celebrations over prime minister boris johnson's election victory have been overshadowed by a violent clashes opponents are protesting they would not accept mr johnson as the country's leader of scuffles with police in the capital the conservative prime minister secured a sweeping victory in the election one an absolute majority in parliament to giving him the green light. to push through his present plans. he's not only got an
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absolute majority now he also has the queen's instruction to form a government. a warm welcome back in downing street for him the election result as a personal triumph. in the afternoon he spoke. i frankly urge everyone on either side of water after 3 years 3 years of through an increasingly arid argument i urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin the bigger loser of the night jeremy carbon who had been offering a 2nd breaks at referendum his labor party lost seats in central and northern england which had been safe put decades many party colleagues harshly criticized their leader saying his extreme left wing policies scared of voters he rejects that and says he'll stay in charge at least for the time being i was elected to lead the
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party and i think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing and i won't do that i will stay here until the respect somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point the s. and p. scottish nationalists made significant gains and now feel their demands for a referendum on scottish independence have increased in strength the question of uniting the kingdom has returned after breaks it this will be one of the biggest challenges for the prime minister. straight to london where we're joined by doubly cause one of the bob welcome barbara let's start with a scuffles in central london that we've been hearing about. you know in this smallish maybe a few 100 people groups off leftists some young women protesting against racism that they see sort of embodied by this new government all which is the old
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tory government really in and you guys and then there were people who were showing posters this is not my prime minister not in my name but you was nothing large and it was more or less spontaneous because of course not everybody is happy it's all this huge game that boris johnson had last night during the election and this huge gain for his tory party that is no more or less unchallenged in parliament so yes there's been some scuffles was the police but as far as we could see it was mostly pushing and shoving and smallish crowds are moving between parliament square in trafalgar square sort of in the center of london here but it is going to take some time for some sort of counter-movement to really step out if that ever happens at all i then let's get to the business of the day that mr johnson has made his acceptance speech in downing street what sort of reaction has it generated.
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this is no reaction so far in that sense because everybody really expect that this and if we look at it for boris johnson this was affinity of the moderates i mean he's a man who really likes it is a generous exaggeration and he was almost almost careful there because he also thanked the voters many of them in the north of the country in the northeast those old labor strongholds who had never voted for the tories before so he knows and he acknowledged that he knows that he will have to sort of take them into consideration that he can't just do whatever he wants because these people have expectations now and he has to sort of develop some some policies for them so that is that one is spect on the other hand then of course he also talked about what he always used to call for months now our friends and partners in europe and the skin
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might crawl off some negotiators in brussels when they hear that because they know that behind this wording there is a prime minister who will be quite ruthless in his dealing with the e.u. after breaks it has been done so let's hear what he had to say and as we work together with the e.u. as friends and so really in tackling climate change and terrorism in building academic and scientific cooperation redoubling our trade you relationship i frankly so barbara does this this majority now mean that the issue is settled that the u.k. will leave the e.u. by the end of january. the bricks issue is settled fill in is so far is the official date for leaving 31st of january of next year that is clear i mean the remainders really last night they should have had one or 2 or 3
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stiff drinks and then after that sort of given up i mean this is it it's over that battle is over and so they will have to live with it and somehow figure out how to deal with it boris johnson knows that and he's quite clear next week he's going to ask parliament already to sort of goes with the 1st voting round to except the agreement was the european union and then it's all set on course the rest is just formalities so that much is clear bought a 2nd part of it what will he what sort of relationship will he pursue with the european union what we've just heard were just nice words but we don't know what they mean will it be sort of really tough and hard will be sort of be looking for in an economic model singapore and thames or is it going to be something much closer to the european union is he going to change tech there nobody knows yet so there is the sort of waiting period and little that will emerge maybe in february
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march of next year that we'll see where boris johnson really is going to take this in which direction so brush aside we heard in that clip that mr johnson seems to have a quite a list of domestic he has since i've got a long domestic agenda. he does have a long domestic agenda and that is basically for people in this country and for the people in the north particularly the old labor voters it is much more important because bracks it that's an emotional it's a symbolic issue once that date has passed and once britain has been formally leaving the e.u. the other things will come back up and there is a long list that the ailing health system that is in a terrible condition under finance for years the schools the same holds true for them children in this richard industrial nation are going hungry homelessness is
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constantly rising i mean the list is simply endless infrastructure needs to be renewed so where he's going to find the money to at least technical bit of this nobody knows yet because it comes down to the development of the economy there is a bit of money a few 1000000000 left in the in the budget obviously but then after that we don't know how all of this is going to pan out so he invites johnson isn't has been making great promises and he needs to keep at least a few of them that's not going to be easy. thank you. now the united states where they have judiciary committee has approved impeachment articles against president trump charging him with abuse of power under destructing congress the committee voted along party lines 23 democrats in favor 17 republicans against the house of representatives is now expected to vote next week come whether to impeach the president on the 2 charges the 1st abuse of power is based on mr
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trump's alleged attempt to pressure ukraine to investigate he's a political rival joe biden with the troops also accused of withholding resecured the aid to ukraine for political reasons the 2nd charge alleges that he attempted to block efforts to investigate his actions president front of course denies any wrongdoing. and he was quick to react at one point threatened that had a future democratic president might face an impeachment process revenge it's a scam it's something that shouldn't be allowed and it's a very bad thing for our country and you're trivializing impeachment and i tell you what someday there will be a democrat president and there will be a republican house and i suspect they're going to remember straight to washington correspondent all of a solid welcome oliver president clearly in a fighting mood does he acknowledge this as a grave situation. all right phil it really seemed like it and
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you also seem to be addressing his supporter base when he responded to this vote earlier today of not really trying to convince anyone on the other side of the political aisle you also said you just played a sound bite that it shouldn't be allowed that a president like him is going through such impeachment proceedings so really taking on democracy in and of itself and it shows that he doesn't really understand it's a great situation a grave situation you find himself in and also the fact that he stays on message he's been calling this a political witch hunt since the proceedings began and sensually the argument that the republicans are trying to put forward here is that the democrats are not cannot accept the fact that he won the 2016 election and that they believe the only chance to get rid of president trump is to remove him in after an impeachment proceeding that however is quite unlikely due to a republican majority in senate ok so given this grave situation that is there any
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way in which the impeachment might actually work in the president's favor. when we are entering uncharted terrain filled so it's hard to say because never before didn't impeach president later run for reelection so it will certainly be very interesting to see how that all will play out in president trump's campaign that's where the democrats are putting their hopes hopes in a shift in public opinion but in the end it all goes down to the senate tried and it depends how that will work out by the way wants a long trial he wants the bidens and the whistleblower to testify and the republicans really want to take advantage of that situation and turn the tide and in either way damage the case the democrats are trying to make your own bill this is just the be open the start of the start as you well have a summit in washington thank you. well let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world former turkish prime minister aftermath of a told it has launched a new party to rival longtime president are going to. the new future party is one
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of 2 spades or groups to be a founded by former allies but reports of discontent within the voting takes about the president's authority tarion style. now dearie a former prime minister abdul majid to boom has won the presidential election according to the country's electoral commission turnout was low after the opposition called for a boycott in some cities protesters tried to disrupt evolved here is being in limbo for months since protests helped oust its longtime president. protest against india's new citizenship law for continued for a 3rd day with violent clashes now spreading to the capital delhi critics say the low does not extend the same protection rights to muslim migrants asked to other religious minorities. power outage in iceland has reached its 4th day thousands in the northern part of the country have been that in the dark after
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a massive storm 7 power lines uncovered others with ice the country's national security council has met in emergency session to deal with the crisis. and european leaders meeting in brussels have reached agreement to make the e.u. carbon neutral by 2050 poland heavily dependent on coal refused to commit to the deal and was therefore exempted most who actually wanted to push the deadline back to 2070 but the other member states pushed the agreement through and hailed it as a major step forward. a council president in good spirits following a long day of debate shall michelle seemed relieved to have cleared the 1st obstacle of the e.u.'s climate action plan i am pleased with this important agreement yes to both climate change too as they were important for the opinion to this site into a common goal climate the 20 by 2050 which is a clear vision about the investments we have to to develop into interaction the
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next yes this summit is the 1st since the newly appointed commission president who is still a fun day line unveiled her european green deal a master plan that might fundamentally transform the e.u. in the years to come it includes a 50 percent reduction in e.u. carbon emissions in 2030 climate neutrality by 2050 a carbon boarder tax on polluting foreign firms and a $100000000000.00 euro transition fund for countries dependent on coal and nuclear energy an ambitious plan for underlined we'll have to do some more convincing along the way finland however is already sold on the urgency of the matter. we all know that we have to do more and we have to do it faster it's about our children's future and about future generations but i'm very happy about the steps
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forward that we made last night. last night after 10 hours of debate almost all member states indorse the goal of the e.u. becoming climate neutral by 2050 but one country did not commit to actually implementing that goal poland the reason for this exception is that poland's energy largely comes from coal and the country fears the costs of transition to a greener economy. poland holding back might seem disappointing but not to german chancellor angela merkel. does a puppy trust and suffered us and i understand why he's asking for more time and i'd like to say that of people pretend that the transition is just as difficult for those who rely on 80 percent of those who are like 65 percent on nuclear energy that is not true and the plan is on the table now it's up to the leaders to bring it to life in the next few months the new zealand police chief has praised
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a military mission to recover the bodies of 6 people who died during the volcanic eruption on khari white island question mark bush said the team showed absolute courage at an unpredictable and challenging environment 2 bodies remain unconnected altogether at least 16 people died and dozens more were severely injured. the recovery operation began at 1st light on friday when 2 helicopters settle fulfill cari island and the ever present threat of another eruption. it's all just about 4 hours to recover 6 bodies which they airlifted to a naval vessel and cleared off the coast. 2 more bodies could not be found. police said another operation would be launched to find them we do believe that at least one of them is in the water. the other one we aren't sure so the only
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2 possibilities want to throw our yard and we have a. way to turn the water. arriving back on shore friends and family of those who died on why tide and at sea they taken part in a maori blessing for the victims. for that is still missing dive teams have been deployed in the wards is around the island police said a number aerial search would be conduct says late on friday. now it's the largest in terms of minorities since world war 2 more than a 1000000 ethnic week of muslims locked up in specially set up prisons in china's north west region of john john the chinese government has consistently claimed that the camps are voluntary reeducation censors to counter extremism but a slew of recently leaked documents known as the china cables tells a different story they say the camps are run like high security prisons and the prisoners are can be showed no mercy in recent years thousands of wiggers of fled
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into exile the double correspondent junia han met one woman who says she's has been she was trapped inside a detention center for more than a year. going for walk with her grandson just a year ago good bargello but wouldn't have dreamt it was possible. at the time she was in china in one of the internment camps for a week is for education centers as the leadership in beijing calls them. who won the. good this is from the day i was arrested it states my name but it's my birthday to them and that i am a terrorist it would be to the thought of them call that google has says the chinese authorities never explained why they thought she was a terrorist. she tells us about the cruel conditions in the camps about torture. and humiliation you will feel lucky with those
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a lot of the quite a few of course speaking with you were locked up in a dark room we also had to write out lines of praise to the chinese communist party he's every 10 days we had to stick our arms through to get an injection we didn't know what it was but the younger women stopped having their periods because they all going to look at the bill we had to do sit ups in the nude or dolls or that it didn't matter if you were 14 or 84 that's how they violated. the colonel who talked. istanbul is home to around 25000 we guess for example visit in borno district like many have found refuge here some even say that the capital of the week is no longer inching junk but in turkey. in primary school the children of those who fled china
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a dad would be singing reading writing in their mother tongue. the teachers here say in china that would be impossible for many we girls say that ethnic and religious ties with turkey has made building new lives here in istanbul easier for them at 1st glance this neighborhood appears lively bustling but the community has an open secret almost everybody here they say has a relative or friend who has disappeared into one of the camps in china. of my brothers were imprisoned my sister was sent to account if i get outta are they dead or alive i don't know. i haven't had any contact with my family in 5 or 6 years not even a phone call i'm 99 percent sure that they're in the camps or in prison for a man and his own children that i haven't heard from my family and 5 years. dozens
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of versions of the same story. for some it's too painful to talk. china's ambassador to turkey admits that some weekers have trouble contacting their families he says steps are being taken. but he rejects reports of human rights violations inching junk. in the education centers are not prisons they are not concentration camps as some media reports say but in fact these places are more like boarding schools and the basic human rights of the. students are respected which they can contact their families and receive visitors so you have the impression that some media and powers are abusing the subject to cast china's policy in a bad light and. don't also. sees things very differently she would like foreign countries to put more pressure on china she says the whole
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roles she experienced in the camps of john have changed her and she's speaking up in the hope that others had her fate. week as living in exile around the world say they have heard nothing from loved ones being held in those columns despite china's insistence that they can contact their farms be reported to me how it could tell us more welcome to me so the exiles have been posting about their plight online especially since just a couple of days ago the governor of the region said that everyone being held in these camps had been released he didn't refer to them as cassie referred to them as vocational training centers not camps and said that all the people that were in these training centers as he called them had graduated and were living happy lives he said now that statement has been graded with disbelief from wages of family members who are living in other parts of the world and have not heard from family members in china for some 2 years in many cases they've not heard anything
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so some of them are living in the u.s. one of them particularly barm seen tash started a social media campaign using the hash tag still no info he said he wanted to use a direct quote condemn china's lie that those in the camps have now graduated around the world right now using that hash tag still no info to share their stories stories of those who remain missing despite china's climb to the conference we're just on the longing for what the chinese say and what the relatives of the disappeared. almost completely some would say desperately relatives turn to each other in lieu of anything more concrete insofar as in from. consider seemed like a we had lived to tell where there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world who just say no that's just rubbish d.w. has been talking to we go using this this this hash tag what have you heard spoke to today. is a being granted asylum here in germany he's living in the southwest in stuttgart he's come from general is took a stand as he calls it he's
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a separatist and doesn't recognize traumas control of the region he told us that his brother a computer scientist and his father in law will respect the business men have been detained in camp since 2017 now the family does not know why they were detained and he's heard nothing of them since i don't even know whether or not i did or a lot of us is the way that sufficed. stock choice whether they give up whether they give up their right we go identity and become han chinese or whether by stay in these camps he also rejects the chinese argument of these camps and they did to combat terrorism saying that whether or not you use the united nations estimation of 1000000 people behind bars or 3000000 where the u.s. defense department. they couldn't possibly all be terrorists in another underlying reason why these family members must turn to social media for any sense of support in lieu of anything more concrete. some sort of. thank you so much.
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in sports of football liverpool coach jurgen klopp skull shocked has been extended until 2024 took over 4 years ago after 7 seasons that brasil dortmund and died a big his side to the champions league title last season the vocally have an 8 point lead in the premier league at the club hopes the club can help and the 30 year domestic title drops. to an ancient tradition with a modern twist that is lighting up christmas a deadlock is celebrating st lucie estate with the 1st pillar of illuminated. about $400.00 boats took to the canals of copenhagen decorated to christmas a compass of thousands watch from the streets and bridges each addition of light bearing the procession originated in sweden with this new version is relatively new event that which is growing in popularity. his reminder of our top story the positives of the british prime minister boris johnson have clashed with police in
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london following his election victory. as conservatives have secured the power of interim majority that it needs to push ahead with up mr johnson's brissac plans. and u.s. lawmakers have approved impeachment proceedings against president trump to formally accusing him of abusing his power and strength in congress trump is over the 4th president in american history is one have to face a new piece for the 1st. i'll be back in a couple minutes to take you through the day the stories behind the headlines so stay with us.
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the headlines. what is the heart of the story why does it matter who live in. if you want. to cut through the noise to get to the truth. and i've worked to death. britain has elected a new conservative government when it's out of the old government but now it's got an actual majority form of maverick boris johnson led his party to victory in areas of the u.k. that had never voted conservative on a promise to get it done so now he's got the job again how does he deliver i'm filled this is the day.
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