this is deja vu news live from berlin as german lawmakers reject a controversial new offer to outlaw to increase the supply of donated organs transplants are becoming more difficult because not enough people declare that they're willing to donate their organs after they die and the new law would have made transplants easier and help desperately ill people to survive. also coming up raina finally falls in australia the southeast of the country celebrates as

a downpour bring some relief from the bushfires crisis but now forecasters are predicting possible flooding is this the new normal of climate change as scientists warn. this is what used to happen when you try to use brick a p.d.f. and turkey site to unavailable but now access has been restored thanks to a ruling by the constitutional court ending a 3 year ban. and we meet the rapper from mozambique knows no fear. that's the truth the it's over so we're going to see if it. was a guy i guess up the noses of those who wield power no matter how much they try to stop that's the secret. i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us germany's party. and has

rejected that controversial legislation aimed at helping people who need organ donations now the new ought to outlaw would have assumed that every citizen agrees to having their organs transplanted after death unless they sign a declaration saying otherwise when they're alive the german government is looking for ways to increase the supply of organs because the country has the lowest organ donation rate in europe we'll have more of the vote in parliament shortly but 1st this report. function is job as a business consultant kept him on the road but then he was diagnosed with genetic lung disease he fought to stay healthy as long as he could but it became clear his health depended on getting a donated lung i'm asked to speak it's that when i 1st spoke to the doctors and they told me i needed a lung transplant if i was shot as. it's my lung and i would have preferred to live the rest of my life with my own along. having someone

else's lung was a concept he would have to get used to for just a few more examinations than his name could go on the waiting list for donor like function you know there are around 1500 people in germany who are waiting for lifesaving organs to be donated and many of them have been waiting for years. the problem is dramatic in all of europe germany has the lowest number of organ donors the longest waiting lists and the highest number of patients whose lives are in danger if they do not receive an organ donation. all believe this is the case even though more than 80 percent of germans a positive about organ donation according to doctors one problem is that death and organ donation are to many families people simply don't talk about it and if it's not clear what the deceased would have wanted most relatives decided against organ donation or even when the patient wants to donate an organ often the donation doesn't take place so organs cannot be transplanted and presents on the waiting

list. that was the case 900 times in 2018. or so there is a need to address that problem here in germany but as we said parliament has rejected legislation that would automatically make all citizens organ donors unless they opt out our chief political editor michel because there has been following the vote in the bundestag for us and she joins us so as we said this legislation has failed to tell us what happened. here is basically the proposal by the current health minister again spawn which would have meant that everybody is assumed to be a donor unless you opt out has been clearly rejected but there was a resoundingly support also now finally through. the parliament for an alternative proposal which is still an opt in solution where people have to actively become organ donors but it includes measures for the german government the

state to double up efforts to basically get people to sign up and register to become organ donors once they die so no significant turnaround in policy here but a pledge to do more on the recognition that 10000 people on. the waiting list in germany with germany pretty much bottom of the list when it comes to european organ donors is no longer acceptable michel are coming back to this original piece of legislation from the health minister. there was a lengthy debate in parliament as well before the vote why has this been such a controversial issue. because it goes all across the party lines and m.p.'s here today were only bound by their conscience and we also even saw a preterist spawn the current health minister who was. very office and is in the same party being vehemently against this option saying it turned the

constitutional relationship between state and citizen on its head that it was too intrusive into people's very personal rights of personal health and that simply wasn't acceptable now this clearly found of authority in the parliament here today michelle looking at what has been decided that you just described this other piece of legislation we know the problem that germany has the lowest organ donation rate in europe will that change now going forward. well one could hope so at the very least there has been an intense public debate about this that in itself raises awareness germany will put more funding into raising awareness and ironically when there was a scandal surrounding organ donations in 2012 with people illegally moving up the list even that led to more people signing up so yes there's a hope that more people will sign up but there is clearly still no legal obligation

for people to be donors unless they say otherwise our chief political editor michelle who is now reporting at the bundestag for us thank you. let's get around now some of the other stories making headlines around the world russian lawmakers have approved. as prime minister. in a lower house vote than was chosen by president vladimir putin after russia's entire government resigned following putin's calls for political reform there is speculation that putin will take on a new role when his term ends in 2024. u.s. president donald trump and the chinese vice premier league have signed the 1st part of a new trade agreement the deal sees china purchasing billions in the u.s. agricultural and manufacturing goods as well as energy supplies stock markets posted major gains on the sign. and dozens of people have died in a loop in syria in intense fighting between pro-government troops and jihadist led

forces opposition groups say government airstrikes on a market in the city on wednesday also killed at least 15 civilians that is despite a truce brokered by russia and turkey. turkey has restored access to wikipedia after a court order that ends a ban that lasted nearly 3 years the encyclopedia website was blocked after it refused to take down entries that allege that turkey had links to terrorist fighters and groups in syria in december of last year turkey's constitutional court ruled that the ban violates their right to freedom of expression. has been following the story for us from istanbul high yulia as we said this ban has been in existence so for 3 years what is life been like without with a pedia. well if you ask me personally as a journalist i better just to survive but i'd say it was a bit annoying because you know if you pedia is just this easily available online

source of information it's entries would pop up during almost every online search and it's easily accessible in most places around the world but not in turkey the page just didn't open for nearly 3 years of course users here were getting creative they were using v.p.n. clients and other means to circumvent the block but that requires a certain level of internet literacy and an extra effort and not everybody was able or is able to do that so today is officially the 1st day they keep pedia is widely accessible again here in turkey that's kind of big news so we talked to some people some users here in istanbul let's listen to what they had to say you know could not karnak it doesn't matter how many alternative sources there were we really need to this platform a lot of information i'm very happy now it's back. in the city i'm afraid it might be blocked again and that's not ok if there's forbidden or sensitive information

they could just block that page instead of the whole website surprise to wikipedia or any other platform. open now but nobody knows what will happen tomorrow twitter might be blocked we compete you might be shocked again. so you'll hear why has this ban on board computer have been lifted now. well we can media that's the organization that runs 80 pedia have filed an appeal against the shutdown and in december off to about 2 and a half years turkey's highest court finally ruled that the ban of the key pedia was a violation of the freedom of expression and that verdict has now been implemented now here in taki it's not the usual way that always every ruling by the constitutional court is also implemented but in this case i guess the pressure of was so efficiently hi and let's also remember the ban was implemented in april 27th

team because the turkish government was not happy about it and few entries on the vicky pedia alleging that it had links to terrorist fighters and groups in syria and they didn't just block these particular entries they shut down the entire pedia in all available languages and that drew harsh criticism domestically and from abroad so you can certainly say you live this is a victory for work of pedia but there are other websites that remain blocked in turkey aren't there. yes that's true and there are many doubts that this ruling on the pedia will have a positive and lasting effect on internet freedom in general here in turkey they could pedia is not safe from being blocks again one well known turkish cyber rights activist told me earlier today the same holds true for twitter or youtube insects according to estimates 300000 web sides are currently blocks here in turkey for

different reasons many of them because they carry content critical of president edge of tired ad one and his government in general i'd say tolerance for public dissent here in turkey that's what critics are repeating over and over again has been shrinking over the past few years especially since the failed coup attempt here in 2016 and that had a huge impact on the internet freedom as well our correspondent yulia han reporting in istanbul thank you yulia. now a downpour of rain has brought relief to southeastern australia after weeks of bush fires raging out of control australians have been celebrating the fire service says the downpours will not extinguish all the blazes and authorities are warning that severe thunderstorms and rains could trigger flash flooding the possible swing from one extreme to the other comes as scientists predict that more extreme weather

events are on the horizon after the warmest decade ever recorded experts have calculated the effect that the massive australian bush fires will have on the global climate here's what they found. the thick haze blankets new south wales as exhausted crews continue to battle the wildfires there the vast cloud of smoke already extends across the pacific past south america but an invisible product of the flames could have a bigger long term impact on global warming the blazes or releasing vast amounts of c o 2 authorities at the u.n. say the problem is twofold fires emit carbon dioxide and obviously they burn up those very forests which are so vital for acting as carbon sinks and absorbing carbon dioxide the australian government estimates the country currently in meds around $560000000.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually now experts say that in the last few months alone the out of control fires have pumped an additional 400000000

tonnes of c o 2 into the atmosphere in the past scientists have generally viewed wildfires as carbon neutral and believed fresh plant growth eventually absorb the c o 2 emitted by burning forests but changes in precipitation patterns and drought are affecting how quickly some woodlands regenerate and many researchers are worried that in a vicious circle wildfires like those in australia could make climate change happen even faster. let's get some more analysis on the story now we can bring in capetown joshi he's a science communications expert who focuses on energy and climate policy thank you for joining us tell us more about what exactly scientists are predicting for a future how it will look. so australian scientists have a bit of a long history in terms of trying to understand how climate change impacts fires in australia this goes back to the late eighty's in the early ninety's big countries

stay science agency it's called the sea of slaughter and they predicted about a decade ago that bushfire would get worse in australia what they noticed is that this thing called forest fire danger index which measures the conditions required is trending upwards and they're predicting that trend is going to continue past possibly now so what we're starting to see now is the manifestation of that change with these really severe fires but unfortunately if climate change continues as it is today it will get far worse probably about twice as worse in terms of the number of days where these really dangerous conditions are present by the 130 extent is it too late to mitigate the effect that these bushfires have had on the global climate . certainly not there's a lot of different things that a country can do to reduce its emissions of course you can go to renewable energy you can change the transport system all those sorts of things there is a bit of a lag between reducing emissions and the resulting impact on the state of the planet's climate but there is a relationship so the things that we do say will have

a big impact and it really matters that we start acting very soon. he said he found that australia itself is pioneering the denial of climate disaster what did you mean by that and how has that impacted climate action or the lack thereof in australia. so this is a reference to both the reaction from the government and reaction from some elements of commentators across australia i would argue that this sort of been stuck in a very very limited cycle for about a decade of denial of the problem exists but i would also counter that by saying that the australian public is becoming increasingly supportive of change so hopefully what happens in the in the 2020 years that the public pressure starts to increase and that results in a change in other parts of australia as well content are you confident that will happen that this public pressure will actually translate into greater action from governments not just in australia but across the world when it comes to climate policy. i'm optimistic that that it will happen i wouldn't say that i'm confident

because i heard not to be confident about too many things when it comes to this issue but i think that australians care a lot about each other they care a lot about their environment and of course the incredible natural world in the country and what they're seeing right now is that that natural world is and those people are being really heavily impacted so i think that will precipitate a big change in the citizens of australia and i think that probably will have some strong effect on the way in the direction the country in the future 10 joshi thank you so much for joining us on. thanks to greenland now where a people find themselves in the middle of an economic boom as we just heard the last decade was the warmest on record for the world and that could have dire consequences but in greenland the shrinking of the arctic ice has opened up some their sea as new opportunities. the snow came late this winter even in greenland but now the island is looking how so many imagine it a place of eternal ice take

a ride out into the few words though and you soon see how greenland is changing even off the coast. guard dogs. we still finding caught here climate change hasn't affected that. it's the opposite actually we're catching more than we used to. but halliburton craps they've moved further north. in. the arctic has warmed by 2 degrees since the end of the 19th century last summer more than 300000000 tons of ice melted in greenland alone a few remnants are still floating in the few words. greenland is experiencing a construction boom new flats and hotels are being built and the 3 airports in the country are all being expanded and there's like a larson runs a taxi boat company in newark he started out with one boat now he's just ordered his 5th he says more and more tourists want to see the melting last year's.

nowadays there's a lot of focus on climate change and you can see the effect of that most clearly here in greenland everyone's talking about our ice. the danes have known about it for a while but now the whole world is talking about it that. this is the new container for to know the melting ice is a load easier access to highly valuable mineral resources it's for this reason the united states and some choice here. after president donald trump's failed attempt to buy greenland the u.s. wants to establish a new consulate here. but there is also opportunities with related to felicia mining for example possibly even petroleum exploration in the future and these are things that we want to be a part of. the fisherman i was lucky ensign like many of his fellow greenlanders dreams of full independence from denmark but he also knows that the island relies

on the millions of euros and subsidies that come from copenhagen. i like the idea of greenland becoming independent this creates opportunities for us with the united states on one hand and germany england and the rest of the world on the other we want freedom but nobody should be able to buy us. donald trump on the climate situation of starting something here in greenland the tide is changing for the world's biggest island. now to some other stories from around the world germany's government has agreed on a deal to pay coal plant operators more than 4000000000 euros in compensation for shutting down their facilities as the country tries to reduce its dependency on fossil fuels. government wants to phase out coal by 2038. japan has confirmed its 1st case of a new corona virus which has already been observed in china

a man returning from the chinese city were on tested positive for the infection is can cause the common cold and more serious diseases one person has died after contracting it. and police and protesters have clashed in the lebanese capital beirut for a 2nd night the clashes started after a crowd gathered at the police station to demand the release of protesters who were taken into custody a day earlier. philip a no you see has started his 2nd term as mozambique's president he took the oath of office in puto in front of thousands of supporters but opposition politicians boycotted the event because. they say his election victory was raped one of his biggest critics as the rapper. he's one of mozambique's most influential hip hop artists his music has earned him public recognition as has his criticism of those who hold power. after hours of waiting the audience finally gets what they're here for at some duluth a.k.a. as i got the undisputed hero of mozambique in hip hop.

who the songs of the 35 year old hit back against the corrupt egocentric elite and the voice to mozambique's disillusion post-revolutionary use. local bash real grassroots i really like his music as it reflects the reality we see today in mozambique. he inspires me he has a super strong message. as a guy who doesn't usually give interviews but he makes an exception for us his latest album is titled sort of there on the debt but not just the financial times. it's a life of paying back debts debts that the government made and our own debts that we make every day it's a system it's a culture it's

a lifestyle so we have 2 kinds of debts one is the day to day struggle of all of us and another one is that debt to ourselves a commitment to make things better if you. feel. this is really. not to be despised for him as a guy isn't interested in expensive cars and fancy clothes and his music videos he portrays himself as a mechanic or even a drunkard. he tells the stories of everyday people standing up to the powerful. and the title track sort of there from his latest album called for peace in the shacks and war and the part of. the name as a guy i mean flight javelin spear he's known for his role in the ricks and isn't afraid of offending those in power no matter how much they try to silence him.

it is the fun of. being a musician in was on be is very difficult it's even more difficult to make music off social intervention television or radio publisher music they don't it doesn't matter for me it's important to go to people employ my music so that people can feel they're part of my music this is important to me as a musician. mozambican t.v. channels and radio stations don't play as i got songs out of fear they could become a target themselves. but that doesn't stop a guy from publishing his music after all he has an important message to spread. this continent. and only be hopping to send wealth when we scientifically find our

own we live in scientifically so this is the message that i have for my fellow african by this and sistas so much love. to the people more. to read a book i still going to get to the school. social life. before as a guy as motto you'll see the truth might hurt but without it nothing will change the losers who wish to look good. now large numbers of u.s. musicians have paraded through the streets of havana for the cuban capital's annual jazz festival in defiance of u.s. president cuba policy cuban musicians played alongside visiting musicians from the u.s. city of new orleans they made it to the festival despite trump's tightening of restrictions

on u.s. travel to the country music has long been a bridge between cuba and the u.s. through decades of trade and travel and berghaus. let's get a recap now of our top story here on germany's parliament has rejected controversial legislation aimed at making it easier to donate organs the often outlaw would have assumed that everyone gives permission for their organs to be transplanted unless they sign it. declaration during their lifetime of a job. coming up next on news asia we sit down with pakistan's prime minister and run cause he explains why extremism is behind it and chance with india . the book does a bombing on valley and afghanistan targeted for destruction by the taliban now is

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