this is deja vu news live from berlin and 50 people as die in a stampede at the funeral of the assassinated arani in general cause tomsula monny the stampede occurred as fuge crowds of mourners gathered for the funeral procession the burial of for the money is now taking place also coming up a court in malta ruling in favor of

a ship's captain who rescued migrants in the mediterranean and we examine the role of charity used in helping migrants trying to reach europe plus france is marking the 5th anniversary of the attack on the satirical magazine charlie it was the 1st in a series of terrorist acts in france and provoked a massive security response we look at how the country has been coping with islamic extremism. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program the stampede at the funeral of the assassin aided general the money has claimed more than 50 lives according to iran's state media hundreds of thousands had gathered in the city of care mom to pay their last respects to the general who was killed in a u.s. drone strike after days of ceremonies and processions the burial of so the money

has now begun. they were here to say goodbye to a military commander they called their own instead they lost their own lives caught up in a stampede as hundreds of thousands of mourners descended on cam on. i this is the hometown of kassam son a manny the general killed by a us military drone last friday. after a 3 day state funeral procession this is where his journey was due to end. but following the stampede the burial of iran's latest martyr has been perspective and. more grief for a rainy ins but that anger over the killing of their national hero lives on.

shouting death to america iranian lawmakers have been quick to pass a law declaring those involved in solemn manny's death as terrorists. amir almost all of those involved in this crime who are with the pentagon and the u.s. military accounted as terrorists or more u.s. troops are already on their way to the middle east but tensions with iran have also thrown the u.s. military presence in iraq into question there was confusion after a leaked a letter from the u.s. defense department appeared to suggest an imminent withdrawal of american troops from iraq. the pentagon says the letter was a draw off and a mistake and there was no decision to leave the country. the white house says that in life saw a man named he was considered

a danger to america in death many are now wondering whether he's become an even greater threat. and we are joined now by middle east analyst by from bonn and i'd like to begin by talking about the stampede reports now say that more than 50 people have died where the authority is unprepared to manage such crowds. possibly and i think if you if we as we have been following the coverage of the of the gathering since 2 days ago this was i guess unavoidable the masses and actually also the his tyria of the mourners eventually led to this catastrophe and yes i guess there was a certain level of unpreparedness of how to handle such crowds. iran in the meantime has has warned the united states to prepare for a dark day of revenge what possible scenarios do you see. the scenarios

are or different views the i mean what week would we have to expect some sort of retaliation in the region where iranian troops or iranian backed militias in the region attack the u.s. presence there is also a long term revenge and that is basically the continuity of iran's policy to try to oust the u.s. from the direct neighborhood and these 2 forms of revenge can obviously feed into each other you mentioned the region is that where you believe tehran might take its revenge for the killing of the money. yeah i mean the way that i follow the discourse in iran and the discussions and the debates the focus will be in the neighboring region i don't share the concerns that europe might be a playground or a theater for this so i think the iranians will go after u.s. interests in the region meantime we have many calls to deescalate the tension how

do you see the current and the potential role of u.s. and iranian allies in this regard. i'm afraid that the european statement yesterday which was very and one sided in which it's only called iran for restraint and fell short of criticizing the u.s. for any role in the in the escalation between the 2 will undermine the european role in this because the iranians will not see europe as being a credible mediator at the same time i think there are still sane sane minds in iran that will also know that any sort of revenge can actually worsen the escalation to extend to an extent that nobody really wants and in the meantime we have conflicting signals from washington but we do have the u.s. sending more troops to the middle east how do you see this military presence this increased military presence impacting the situation. it's a bit difficult to make sense of the u.s. posture there on the one hand we really know that u.s.

president trump seeks to withdraw from the region and if there was one consistent point during his electoral campaign it was that he wants to end all those useless wars then we hear about additional troops is it just mentioned we saw this letter which seems to be not the real one or if so where a fake one that they want to leave iraq it's difficult to make to really make sense of the u.s. goals and the u.s. strategy at the current lead but we can see dynamics in iraq that are actually going towards the willingness to oust the u.s. from iraq middle east analyst about to buy thank you. my pleasure. and in a further indication of the rising tension in the middle east nato has announced it is taking its military personnel out of iraq due to safety concerns germany has begun moving its troops from the country a german military training mission there comprises about 150 troops those stationed

in and around the capital baghdad have been moved into neighboring jordan and kuwait 117 soldiers will remain in the kurdish city of air beal in northern iraq. and to look now at some other stories making news around the world puerto rico has been struck by a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake the largest in a series of tremors that have shaken the u.s. territory in the past 24 hours at least one person has been confirmed dead and the governor has declared a state of emergency. socialist leader pedro sanchez has been confirmed spanish prime minister after a narrow parliamentary vote his victory was secured when a small regional party agreed to abstain sanchez will now head of a minority left wing government spain's 1st coalition since it made the transition to democracy in the 1970 s. and austrian politicians sebastian peretz has been sworn in as the country's chancellor returning after 7 months out of power following the collapse of his

government his center right people's party is now in coalition with the green party a 1st for austria. it's 5 years to the days since is a miss harris went on a rampage against journalists at the french satirical magazine charlie. 12 people died in the attack for which the so-called islamic state claimed responsibility it was the 1st in a series of deadly incidents over the next few years committed mostly by french born extremists. remembering the horrific events of 5 years ago. family members and callings of the victims marked the occasion with an emotional ceremony in paris among them some of the magazine staff members who were injured in the attack. on january 7th 2015 in front of charlie doe's headquarters in paris.

terrorists targeted the magazine after it published caricature is of the prophet mohammed it took less than 2 minutes for them to shoot dead 12 people and injure another 11 this was the 1st of a series of deadly attacks that lasted 2 days. in the aftermath of the killing thousands took to the streets to share their grief world leaders gathered in paris vowing never to give way to terrorism. the phrase. i am shining became a global sign of solidarity the magazine bankrupt before the attack gain public support around the world. well you know if you look at this line we've been here since as this morning making a political statement but it's. very important to show solidarity for freedom of expression goes for the attack was a major blow to press freedom and france but beyond that the killing of journalists

revealed that the country was ill prepared to respond to terrorist threats for the next 2 years france remained in a state of emergency thousands more military personnel and police officers were deployed to tackle terrorism. but more attacks followed and clearing the nov 2015 attack on the buttock long concert hall where 130 people died. the following year and nice dozens were killed. when a truck driver rammed into a crowd and. both attempts were claimed by factions of the so-called islamic state . 5 years later france is still on alert for terror attacks when the survivors try to keep the memory of the victims in line. and we are joined now by a french journalist living in paris welcome to the program and thank you for joining

us we understand that you were working in the same building on the same floor as charlie abdo on that day of the attack how do you remember that day 5 years ago. where that arrived maybe 2 or 3 minutes or just after the terrorist escaped the building arrive a bit late this morning and my colleagues were in the office and i arrived by the street and on guard. i was one of the 1st on the on the scene. with all the people in the street and then inside the charlie newsroom we discovered or. basically the consequences of the attack and that it was really a nightmare. trying to identify people who were life trying to do our best with some colleagues of popular in my former agency to have the survivors and to do everything we can even if we were not doctors and move waiting for 4 for the

doctors or for emergency units to try to talk to some people to identify those rules to allow them to do everything we can to the survivors so you you really experience this this firsthand and back then we know that the millions of people in france and abroad they rallied around the slogan just just be sharlee or i am charley it was a sign of solidarity with the free press with what you know you guys have gone through there. how do you feel that sentiment now 5 years on do you feel like the solidarity is as strong as it once was. yes there is still sorry there it's here i think in france and all over the world regarding what happened to to charlie and what happened to all the journalists and all the news room but. of course it wasn't right after the attack you were seeing for millions of people joining in the street

showing the surge there it's a. showing how they wanted to protect press freedom and i think that this puritan what we call the just a shoddy. spirit is still there is. if we need to to to rethink everyday how much press freedom is extremely important and i do think that in that period were you when we have a lot of people don't trust anymore in journalism anymore in news organization we have to remember that people journalists were killed for their job work you for making sure people get access to information we need to remember that journalists could be extremely dangerous and journalists are working for the public interest and you take an action actually in order to achieve that aim and in the wake of this attack e.u. founded a journalist network it's called for been stories tell us about how it's connected to your experience with the attack. i was doing

investigative documentary for for 20 years 4 for french or international networks and i was used to feel balance all around the world i was used to see some terrible things around me but i was not used to see that. on environment in paris in my building were i used to go every day at work so that they change or a lot of things in my life and from that day i decided to do my best to keep the stories alive what what i can do as a journalist to continue the record fascinated reporters and if we continue the work of us knitted reporters we can tell it's a poor for signal to enemies of the free press that even if you try to kill the messenger you will never kill the mrs h. so that's why i created forbidden stories which is an international consortium of investigative journalists all around the world and both were there we are considering the work of assassinated reporters with a with

a lot of paternity reporters there are shall we thank you so much for joining us on this summer anniversary 5 years on from the charlie of don't attack tell us about your efforts and your experience on that day we appreciate it. thank you so much thank you it's it's now the captain of the refugee rescue ship lifeline has been cleared of charges that he failed to properly register his vessel klaus peter reiss helped save more than 230 refugees from the mediterranean in june of 28 he faced 810000 euro fine in malta over claims that the ship was incorrectly registered but a court has now ruled he does not have to pay. in june 2018 more than $23050.00 g.'s drifted on a rubber boat off the coast of libya before the lifeline found them the captain wanted to save lives but felt that everywhere he looked obstacles were in his path

it's a refused to allow his ship to dock for days. the way people are treated around here makes me want to cry people talk about trump and mexico and his wall but i have the impression that europe is no better. only off to several other e.u. states announced that they would take in some of the migrants didn't open. the refugees were finally safe but the lifeline was confiscated and a new on to see began for captain. he was charged with not properly veges string the lifeline which sailed under a dutch flag an accusation that highish that was absurd after a court imposed 810000 euro fine in may 2019 launched an appeal. now he has finally been vindicated the court and quitting the captain but a battle isn't over and now the ship captain by him was seized by italian

authorities last september after he had rescued 100 people from the sea separate proceedings on the way there. and joining me now here in the studio is ruben like of our spokesperson of the german charity sea watch a different migrant rescue organization and in that context what do you make of this verdict 1st of all we're not surprised that actually shows peter was not found guilty because the rescue is not a crime that is very clear even though european states often try to criminalize the rescue by any means necessary and that's why also now the chairman interior minister last see who has to apologize to mission lifeline and calls it because he also played a pretty shameful role in this whole trial when he actually played it for the rest of the ship making it a condition for people to land and to be resettled to chimneys so i expect mr siegel for to apologize to mission leffler i want to talk about you know what the

critics might say in fact of organizations such as yourselves charity organizations they might say that you're encouraging people to cross the mediterranean what's your response 1st of all this is statistically proven wrong by several studies by for example the oxford university furthermore it's actually against any law because actually we are a reaction to a problem that is taking place on the mediterranean when you watch was sending to sea watch one that's the 1st german civil rescue vessel from hamburg in the very same week when we departed to tamworth port there were more than a 1000 people drowning in the mediterranean sea they can barely have been encouraged by our project so it's pretty clear that we have reaction to the broken and not to source of food that's pure logic and also with the same argument you could actually. he stopped a mountain rescue from taking place because that might also encourage of the columbus to take risks so if you take this pretty wrong arguments it's

morally wrong it's also practically wrong and that's what i was so you've taken it upon yourself here you're out there rescuing people now what more do you want to see from the authorities from the e.u. for example it's a pretty easy decision there is the european constitution and the european declaration of human rights and europe has to decide if we want to have those basic rights or not because human rights are worth nothing if they are not folds so it cannot be that human rights are only for european passport holders so europe has to decide whether we want. human rights or not and that means to actually establish safe ways to europe and to stop hindering sea rescue from taking place. spokesperson of the german charity sea watch thank you thanks a lot for firefighters in southeastern australia are racing to take advantage of a brief drop in temperatures before another heat wave is expected to hit later this week but on tuesday dozens paused to bid

a final farewell to andrew old wire one of at least 25 people killed in the places so far the 36 year old volunteer firefighter died along with his colleague just before christmas when a burnt tree fell sending their vehicle rolling off the road the country is bracing for more tragedy with no end in sight to the fire. australia's bushfires have claimed dozens of lives killed hundreds of thousands of native animals and destroyed thousands of homes the very real tragedy is now being followed by a wave of misinformation and scams let's get more on that u.w. reporter joel droid joins us here in the studio for that side of the story so what are we seeing on social media following these fires there's been a lot of activity there's a blame game going on now sara as a story is trying to come to terms with who was responsible for these terrible tragic bushfires and unfortunately there is some misinformation going around like

one conspiracy mean which is claiming that environmentalists a purpose lee starting fires in order to court perpetuate a fake linkage between fires and climate change and from a green agenda now police in australia have actually prosecuted around 200 people in the recent weeks for breaching 5 bands including some awesome ists but there's no evidence that this is in any way coordinated or politically motivated now as well as the conspiracy theorists there's also a lot of social media chatter blaming the australian green party for allegedly opposing controlled burning that's when fire fight is start small fires in order to prevent big fires later on now this is also been disproven the australian green party actually supports controlled burning and in any case there are minor party that's never been in power so all of this is really a distraction from talking about the real causes of the bushfires which are the

unprecedented levels of heat and drought in australia last year was the hottest and driest year on record in australia and scientists are pretty clear in telling us that that those effects are actually exacerbated by climate change we also have you know another side of the story when we look on the internet you know aside from from the validity of all those claims people are trying to take advantage of the tragedy many people. yes we're seeing fake websites set up online soliciting donations there was one that was set up claiming to raise money for the funeral of a father and son who died while trying to defend their home now the family said that they didn't authorize this and they notified the police the astray the consumer agency says other similar scams are doing the rounds and they've advised people who want to donate to only do so to lodge registered charities they've got a website where you can check whether a charity is registered it's called stand watch so of course many people want to

help out in times of tragedy and we're seeing celebrities cutting big checks but it's also worth remembering that a strain is one of the richest countries in the world and it has money but yet it still relies on volunteers to fight fires and on charities to look after wildlife so now strains are having to have a conversation about whether they've been spending their public money in the right way. thank you. now no region sensation erlang holland has revealed why he turned down bigger clubs to sign for purse it dormant the strike is one of the hottest prospects a striker one of the hottest prospects in football and speaking for the 1st time about his transfer he said that he felt that he was a good match with the german club have aleck. bowling holand is the team's freshest face dortmund hope he's the man to lift them up the bundesliga table. base or of competition from manchester united and you ventures to man the prolific striker and

hall and was impressed with how wooed him they just went direct and said we need you but. we were like your playing style and we want to. and i like how. they spoke to me and then that's what triggered it just felt. good much a 19 year old norwegian cost 20000000 euros from austrian side abi salt spoke he's been one of the most talked about players this season and for good reason scoring 28 goals in 22 games so far as a rate of one every 52 minutes as far as his new teammates are concerned could be the missing piece of the puzzle. it's been a while since we've had a strike like him indorsements it's always positive to tell someone who's not just big but also fast and technically strong so he brings something different for sure

because we. don't mind a well known for developing talented young players all in fits into that category it's now for him to live up to the hype. now the top stories we're following for you on t w news more than 50 people have been killed in a stampede at the funeral of the of sas needed a rally in general for some sort of money almost $200.00 people are reported injured in the crash after days of ceremonies and perceptions the burial of stolen money has now begun. coming up next on news is news asia and these stories the student who became a sexual predator in the case of the rapist described as the most prolific in british legal history and showing. i mean there's 2 of those gentle giants an ngo in thailand is doing away with the dark side of elephant taurus and. all that more coming up my colleague there actually better see in just

a few moments but 1st we leave you with stunning pictures of from ice festival in the chinese city of harper and thanks for watching.

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