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it's me and they go but you need to interrupt it's the same thing you want to do their story. it's worth pointing out reliable information for margaret. this is deja vu news live from berlin frustration boils over in lebanon's capitol police in beirut fire tear gas and water cannons as demonstrators attempt to storm parliament anger over the delay in forming a new government has reignited the protests but after 3 months on the streets will be movements demands are met also on the show fears that
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a deadly new virus could spread across china and abroad 2 people have now died in the ammonia outbreak caused by the virus countries across asia as well as the u.s. are now screening travelers arriving from the effect today or. and to from the streets of new york to a gold medals for the international olympic committee is considering adding breakdancing to its list of that is. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us after lebanese anti-government protesters clashed with police in the country's capital beirut the government has called on the army to restore call military vehicles have been used to disperse the crowds well earlier police used tear gas and water cannons against protesters who threw fireworks at police that's the latest flare. up in some 3 months of demonstrations
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against alleged government corruption and incompetence. let's get more now joining me is correspondent basile from our beirut bureau basile you're near the site of those protests in beirut just bring us up to date what's the situation right now it's like the old situation in lebanon turned into. right behind me as you know the well there's. also the old jordan is to move away from the point where that own security know it being mentioned. one of the what's happened and that's what you did twitter account i just told the yeah most of the protesters to stay away from old these riots in order to achieve some calm you can see if i can get i think this moment all the clashes of students right behind 100 meters behind me exactly i'd be marked in square president president
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oscar when you see also the sense of what it do. to take all needed measures to protect the protesters and the security and the. security in the tenant. pictures with fireworks thrown at police. how would you compare these clashes to clashes earlier. this week were the purchased. regained its protests protestors we can see the most violent clashes between. police beat. the protesters. something behind me in a way that. old according to the red cross. we have $72.00 of these 4 men and according to the i.r.s.
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. that is dozens of. some of these and. move to the. basile these protests have been taking place all week in beirut what are their demands what do they want. the main reason 1st of all after 3 months more than 3 months of these protests. this woman the. government the economy the sector. all the. the. nose down 45 to 50 percent of its value of. u.s. dollars and. people can't with their old from. between $1200.00 only that we. hold these. tickets and that's what
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we need do you know a couple of these. may need. correction. some. banks. minutes ago we had. one of the main branches bank branches. the right. to take it to take it down. 3 months of protests now it seems frustration potentially even reaching a new level tonight. thank you very much. thank. i let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world in syria a russian airstrike has killed 5 civilians including 4 members of the same family that's despite a russia brokered cease fire in the country the strike was an adlib province syria's last opposition stronghold which is facing a deadly offensive by government forces. protesters on both sides of libya's
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conflict have taken to the streets ahead of peace talks in berlin on sunday opponents of the internationally recognized government of also blockaded several key oil production facilities threatening the country's main source of income. iran will send ukraine the flight recorders from the plane that its military accidentally shot down it's already said it was not possible to read the black boxes in iran and the french american and canadian experts would help analyze the data in kiev. when health officials around the world are sounding the alarm over a deadly new virus that's led to an outbreak of pneumonia in central china where it's already killed 2 people in the city of on there are dozens of confirmed cases but scientists say there are likely many more that have yet to be diagnosed as the number of cases rise officials are fearing a larger outbreak of the virus and they're taking steps to prevent it from spreading to other countries especially as people begin to travel for the upcoming
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lunar new year holiday. it's a race to stop a deadly virus from spreading passengers touching down in the u.s. on flights from central china now face a medical check health officials at airports in new york los angeles and san francisco are testing travelers coming from the region who may have symptoms of the virus most passengers will get questioned get their temperature taken any sent on their way but passengers that are potentially at risk to have the novel coronavirus that is people who are sick and have been exposed to get to get it additional questions and they may actually be sent for a medical work up our goal here is to detect this virus early so that we can better understand it at san francisco international airport passengers support the new checks. is necessary to go through the street. to check the temperature to make sure we're ok when i have
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a fever if it's issues that are going to affect others states may be good choices to like cashews about it. but the prospect of being exposed to the mystery illness is not to tearing all travelers to china. will know that i am i get the flow of it . but i'm going to be careful the new coronavirus 1st appeared in the city of will hand in central china medical workers spotted a cluster of cases of a new type of pneumonia patients had fever coughs and breathing problems so far only people who visit to do lived in lieu hand develop the virus but as people travel overseas during the chinese new year holidays more cases have been detected . using a thermal camera to check for sick passengers other countries have started testing visits his official screening travelers landing in bangkok thailand found 2 of the
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most recent confirmed cases outside china a 61 year old woman and a chinese tourists are now in hospital medical researches don't know if the virus can be passed from person to person but with millions of travelers crossing countries daily health authorities are taking no chances. journalist simoni putra is covering the story from shanghai he told us earlier what we know about the virus so far so chinese scientists have an ally in a virus and it seems to be 80 persons to me are. the same family but is slightly different and so far. it seems to be slightly less than jurists less deadly and also a bit less fire island so it's dread lest fasts which east rather reassuring but still 2 people have died apparently there were older people there are also being
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so 40 people have been hospitalized and 10 already went out and off safe so so far that's all we know important also it doesn't seem to spread or doesn't seem to spread easily from human to human that was journalist seymour napalm for reporting for us from shanghai well 1st fire now floods in australia heavy storms that hit the east coast and while the rains have helped put out some of those devastating bushfires they've also caused flash flooding for residents and rescue teams the wet weather is a mixed blessing the rains finally fell spelling relief for people. as well as wildlife i remember being crushed 2 o'clock in the rain is welcome it's putting out bush fires and helping improve conditions for the firefighters trying to get
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a handle on the many fires still burning but there's also been flooding. here koalas who've been rescued from the fires now have to be saved from the floods. we saw. some 100 year threshold. and. maybe just a few locations which saw. for us it's not very widespread after a straight is most devastating fire season on record due to manmade climate change large areas left with little vegetation and hard drive ground it's the perfect conditions for flooding storms hit the country's east coast and dumped 2 months of rainfall overnight in some parts the government has received huge criticism over its handling of the fires and now they've got another serious environmental risk to mitigate our sports now in the bundesliga is back in action after the winter break
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let's get you caught up now on all the results from saturday's early games here they are dortmund in intervening match beat in 8 goals long fast their cologne upset involves perk agreements not passed dusseldorf freiburg defeating mights frankfurt taking down hoffenheim on friday took down gladbach and kicking off soon we'll see rb leipzig versus lean then on sunday it's hair tourbillon battling buyer new nick and potter born facing liver. well iranian football is feeling the effects of the heightened tensions in the country the nation's football federation is threatening to boycott the asian champions league after iranian teams were told that they wouldn't be allowed to host any games for security reasons iran has 4 club teams and asian football's top tier competition a spokesperson for the iranian football federation said the country was ready to
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host games pointing to the $28.00 team final that was held in tehran. our right to a potential futures for to the tokyo olympics this summer will feature new events like a karate skateboarding and surfing but give it another 4 years and we could see another olympic event debut in paris breakdancing the international olympic committee is considering adding the energetic and athletic form of dance which it thinks could help the games reach a younger bore diverse audience. breakdancing the athletic style of street dancing was created by african-american and latino youth in the early 19th seventy's in new york. but they made eighty's break dancing went mainstream in the u.s. and was the focus of several full feature films during that decade. for decades the new form of expression inspired many to start break dancing like
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antonio kiss theo who discovered the joyful art as a child and now he's coaching a handful of olympic hopefuls in the states the international olympic committee is considering adding breakdancing to its program in 2024. all we can do now is just with filleted and make sure it happened make sure that our athletes have an opportunity to go and not only go to the olympics when it happens but also come back with gold medal is the birthplace of hip hop culture right the united states we created and because studios young students me boy fozzy. are spinning about the possibility of being an olympian. i was really. like can what i do it for ever and i now it kind of can cause and be on thanks so it's like it's
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a whole lot to process and superrich say the final decision on whether or not break dancing will be at the 2024 olympics is expected to come later this year in december. everyone's trying to get me to break as i'm not going to do it up next we meet south africans all female gamekeeper crew the black mambas that's up next on reporter i'm carl asked i'll be back with more news but no break dancing at the top of the. tape. personally. with wonderful people and stories that make the game so special. a let me plz.

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