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our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on d w. o o. o o o. this is the news coming to you live from bali in china moves from foreign teaching to crackdown. bob you are not even scared of death you think i'm a communist party. reports from china indicate that critics who should unauthorized images of the coronavirus response are being forcibly disappeared also coming up.
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the syrian government troops advance into a strategic rebel still triggering deadly clashes between outposts and the escalating violence kicks off the humanitarian crisis. and hewas senator bernie sanders claims victory in the new hampshire primary but this is when you get the pontine kills that your candidate who can challenge president trump. plus trying to reclaim what their family lost under the nazis people of german descent creating unfair goodness when it comes to their constitutional rights to gain german citizenship. hello welcome. good to have you with us. china has reported 97 more deaths on the coronavirus and more than 2000 new infections or most all the new deaths 94 but who
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by province the epicenter of the outbreak but the chinese has officially say these are the lowest figures since january and they predict the epidemic could be over by a try to international health officials warn it's too early to make that. meanwhile a growing number of people in china have begun to express anger at the government's handling of the situation authorities have moved to silence criticism they censored critical of comments and 2 social media sites have been raised and at least 2 other local citizens trying to expose the reality of what the s.c. have disappeared the reason fear for this if. these are images the chinese government doesn't want you to see a medical center in han the epicenter of the coronavirus are break under stress short on supplies overwhelmed with patients the video is from. a lawyer who made
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the risky choice to become a citizen journalist and to fight government efforts to control information which in front of me is the virus and behind me just the legal and administrative power of china as long as i live in the city you know i will continue to report i only report what i see what i hear. you well i'm not even scared of death you think i'm afraid of the communist party. trin is gone he disappeared last week and has not responded to messages so far authorities would only say he has called under control the sea international say he's been forcibly quarantined. and he's not the only one to pay the price for defying state authority the blogger been took this video from a hospital and. it seems to show body by victims of the virus then he received a menacing knock on his door. wouldn't you want to know. what you intend to.
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do you will know you'll be you know what do you want. what do you like the other night. you would you go. you know. you will find you in the. firing had been posting videos daily proof that he was free those upload stopped on monday and he's been on reachable by phone fueling speculation over the rest. of the virus in december authorities accuse him and several others of severely disturbing the social order no he's dead one of the more than 1000 people in china to succumb to corona virus so far morning and i have marked his passing online and off in defiance of the state's threats pressure is mounting on chinese authorities to come clean on what's happening in. wanting to know what's happened to people
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like to intro and find bin. and joining me now is correspondent in beijing lisa goddard is a huge just trying to control the spread of the corona virus that as we could not report this growing anger among people what are you hearing that. yeah these 2 cases that we've just heard fung been unturned soules sure they were among very few people who uncovered what was happening as the state media do not dare to report many things that are happening in there and that these 2 have disappeared is of course a sign that the government is trying to control information even tighter than they have before i spoke to which until sure about 2 weeks ago he told me that he did expect something like this to have more he was aware that it could
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happen and now he has disappeared he disappeared the same day when he went along that doctor who 1st uncovered information about the virus disappeared and of course this has angered people a lot of people do not trust the information they get from the government they do not trust the figures nobody knows whether the figures we are seeing are accurate that is in part because. testing kits are lacking and not everybody can be diagnosed we are getting a lot of reports from one about people who are not yet tested but people also do suspect their government is trying to cover up certain facts as they have before and as they have admitted that they had before and let us all do this state propaganda says anybody who tries to counteract the extent of the outbreak will be punished the opposite seems to be happening.
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it is not the opposite that the opposite was happening before the state said it now we are seeing more numbers we are seeing more information but what we are not seeing is an independent verification of that information so it is very hard to judge now what we can believe and what we cannot believe there are no independent join or lists who come report from the ground and their experts are also very limited international experts are also very limited in what they can do it is this control of information that the government is exercising that is making people here very wary of what you're hearing right mathias berlin in beijing thank you very much for that update that now being the update but some of the stories making news
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around the wide at least 8 people have been killed and dozens injured in ethnic violence in kazakhstan reports say ethnic conflicts clashed with members of the don't guns a muslim group of chinese origin the incident happened in the village of months on she and friday prompting many doing guns to flee across the border to kyrgyzstan palestinian president mahmoud abbas has rejected the us president donald trump's middle east plan saying it destroyed the concept of a 2 state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict speaking at the united nations abbas said he was ready to resume peace negotiations under an international umbrella. turkey's president richard avedon says his country will do whatever necessary to push back the syrian regime and live by the end of this month the turkish media has threatened to attack regime forces everywhere from now on if any turkish forces are at observation posts or as when syria edger also made reference
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to the escalating tensions in the humanitarian situation there. the regime as well as the russian forces and the iran backed militants acting with it in it would continuously attacking civilians committing massacre and causing bloodshed. and for more let me correspondent. joins me from istanbul you have just heard strong words from we had him before the escalation in an already tense situation. well yes the turkish president shows no signs of backing down we heard him there lashing out at russia and iran who are the syrian regime's top of backers they have been supporting bush in his deadly offensive on the one also said he would retaliate if more of his soldiers were home to let me remind you in the past 10
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days at least 14 turkish soldiers died in direct military clashes with syrian regime forces these have been the most serious direct confrontation between taki a nato member and syrian regime forces in the past nearly 9 years that this war in syria there has been going on now add one has invested a lot military and politically standing up to damascus in the past year or so for him it's of course very difficult now to take a step back he's also accusing the syrian regime of intentionally trying to drive people out of towns and cities and towards the turkish border so they could more easily take these areas now this seems to me as if we are for now heading towards more confrontation if we're going to see more confrontation was also supposed to reveal some concrete steps on what's next we didn't hear much much
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about this from him today my guess is they are still trying to exhaust diplomatic channels talks with the kremlin in particular with russia because as it seems now this is the only way to ease things down to get out of this and what does all of this mean for the humanitarian situation for the people who live in this is. being trapped by this fighting. well people in the middle of continue to see it for their lives i mean 700000 people have fled fighting there over the past 10 weeks that's more than at any other time in syria's war that's according to the u.n. they have warned that it could turn into a graveyard if hostilities continue now many many people have fled towards areas near the turkish border that's what i mentioned and conditions there are very dire camps are overcrowded many people have to sleep outside at night while it's
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freezing cold now it's winter time of course so for people in if the conditions are very terrible many have the warning of one of the worst humanitarian crisis in this war unfolding in front of our eyes. on in istanbul thank you very much. you're watching the news still to come patricia dunn says just fled to brazil to escape the nazis in germany has refused took me into citizenship now she and others like lawmakers to help them. but 1st to the u.s. for presidential hopeful. was one of the democratic primary in the state of new hampshire the left leaning u.s. senator one with about 26 percent of the vote sanders says he now has the momentum as the democratic party decides on a candidate to challenge president trump november's election but moderates insist
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the contest is far from over. it's the 1st clear win in the democratic party's nomination fight a new hampshire choose very moment senator bernie sanders. and love me. that this victory here is the beginning of the end but donald trump. sanders beat off a strong challenge from p.p. to git he triumphed in iowa caucus he congratulated sanders and called for unity. so many of you turned out die hard democrats independents unwilling to stay on the side on the sidelines and even some newly former republicans and we can't defeat the most divisive president in modern american history by tearing down anybody who doesn't agree with us 100 percent of the time. president trying to twist here to
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slam the democratic candidates describing sanders as crazy berni and mocking prestigious star name in this primary amy club a trial was a surprise 3rd place with elizabeth warren and forward of the former vice president joe biden in face he is adamant that the race for the nomination has barely started so i think. we just heard from the 1st 2 of the states. all right come from us the opening bell. not the closing bell. the white and down from the president has just been. our. victories behind us popular vote in oil war in the big 3. were growing tired of the iraq war go to south carolina with the windows surge. the democratic
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contest is shaping up to be a battle between barry sanders and pete beach separated by 4 decades and clashing political ideologies but united in one shared goal post president. and now to a story of survival and the search for reparations to the 12 years of the nazi dictatorship thousands of germans were deprived of the citizenship and political racial and religious grounds the country's post-war constitution sought to amend that with the clear was promising former german citizens and their descendants shall on application have their citizenship restored in reality though a lot of africans are rejected in 2018 germany received about 4600 applications for german citizenship some $1400.00 approved almost 2 thirds were rejected a many of those whose claims were rejected feel they did not get a fair hearing
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a british lawyer is not taking up their cause and says the german government is violating the constitution. muscling marx was born in sao paolo brazil thousands of kilometers away from her ancestry home in germany. my grandfather a left germany fled actually in 1937 he was only 21 years old when he left and he fled to brazil this was thanks to his smothers foresight because she kind of knew that something was coming he was already not allowed to stay at university where he was studying at that time so in a way he wasn't any more a form citizen under the nazi regime tens of thousands of jews were stripped of their rights and german citizenship now muscle is fighting to get it back my brother and i felt very close to the german culture since
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a very young age was studied in a water school in brazil with german school and we always had this references from germany and european coach are present in our houses article 116 of the german constitution enables germans persecuted by the nazis as well as the descendants to have their citizenship are stored but marcelle is application was rejected on the grounds her grandfather left germany voluntarily and they told me that it was he had left her alone terribly it was appalling to hear something like that it was yes so we were angry but yes we we knew that they are fighting for a right cause a just cause muscle as soon learned that she wasn't alone and joined forces with a lobby group exclusions group article 116 which helps hundreds of people who have been rejected. in january the group brought the debate to the bundestag felix couch
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and his wife isabelle founded the group in 2018 they want to see a new more general law to prevent exclusions from article 116 this time the motion was narrowly rejected the majority. if parliament believes that to decrease passed last august to ease restrictions or enough but some descendants are still excluded or facing bureaucratic hurdles. back in london felix coachmen isn't giving up the decrees of a discretionary. relief effectively but 116 is a fundamental basic right and people pretty content where they can get back their loved ones who they lost they can get back in many cases their property can't get back jobs that they've lost but they can't get back one thing and that's german citizenship marcella has now applied
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a 2nd time. it's something that i have to do to honor the ones that are not here anymore and i think by germany allowing and acknowledging us as citizens this is only going to contribute to have a more fair just and a more diverse. germany in the future almost 3 years since applying again marcella is still waiting for a reply. the obvious political correspondent kate brady was one of the reporters who filed the report and she's with me the studio welcome kid unless it is the case is being rejected why does she think this decision was wrong and what's the state's view on it will be the reason of the rejection from marcello's application isn't actually that unique we spoke to a lot of people who apply while we're while we were researching for this report and we heard from quite a few people that have been that they have been rejected on the grounds that
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sisters had supposedly fled voluntarily now of course that then begs the question how soon is soon enough sometimes some people fled before the nuremberg race laws were implemented but of course during that entire 12 year period of the nazi dictatorship jews were being persecuted and obviously the situation deteriorated and very very quick crates and so of course history tells us that of course people like marseilles grandfather didn't flee voluntarily there was very much a reason why he fled to brazil as a jew in 1937 and the state however it looks at each of these cases individually individually and takes into account the documents as a percentage as well now in august last year as we heard that there were 2 new decrees implemented which aims to at least ease the restrictions that people are facing but even now several groups of people are still excluded and face
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difficulties in trying to get the german citizenship. were stored or again it was a descendant of someone who was persecuted under the nazi regime as we have been reporting muscle is not the only one did 116 of people and the film does initiative little they're hoping to achieve well the group basically doesn't see or doesn't consider these new to decrease to go far enough they want to see a new law written into the constitution because they're concerned that these decrees are in the discretionary and they want to see something put in law that won't be changed in to encompass everyone that was affected during that 12 year nazi period but at the same time they also want to see an apology because many people who have applied and been rejected so far feel that they have simply been let down by german or thora teasin to receive very direct and bureaucratic les's that seem to have very little empathy for the situation that people find themselves in of course this is a very emotional decision to take for many people whether that's to gain closure
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and to gain back the german citizenship that was taken away from them themselves all to pass on something to that descendants to their grandchildren that they were again stripped of during the nazi regime so in fact writing a historical wrong is what they're looking for a new assessment will parliament make the change to the constitution which is what is the did now well i think during this legislative period it seems very unlikely but the vote was very close just a couple of weeks ago palma voted following i devote a it's for a proposal to change a law and it came extremely close to what we call here how most people in germany and actually all of the parliament areas they had to leave palm and come back in through separate doors to show which side they supported and it was that close that the conservative politicians had to very quickly grab the rest of their m.p.'s from elsewhere in palm and to come so that they didn't actually lose that vote and so in
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the next term perhaps we could see a change in. opinion there i was in the green party as well as polling very strongly at the moment as well so they might be able to flex their power bit more and the greens and the left hair in germany a very strong advocates for this lobby group here we saw that in the reports and they're keen to see a new law and that which will as you said right historical wrong so since some hopeful people like k.p. thank you very much for sharing information on this famed potent issue now for since 14 formula one and the gallatin ferrari have unveiled the cars they hope will help the them get back to their winning ways to season off to yes ophelia german drive us a bus in fact it is meant to be their number one but the emergence of teammate electric has caused tension in the team but the pair put on their best smiles of the kids the ceremony ahead of the opening race next month. a grandiose in northern
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italy was chosen as the venue for the unveiling of ferrari's 2020 formula one car the most successful team in the sport have however not one of will drivers title since 2007. germany sebastian vettel won 4 titles with previous team red bull but struggled badly at ferrari last year so he hopes several technological innovations can give him the boost he needs. i think. it's an incredible achievement obviously a lot of hours that go into the car i like it a lot so i think we had the opportunity to obviously see it a little bit before and to have also a direct comparison with last year's car and you can really spot the difference especially when it comes to packaging and the back part of the. vettel is main problem last season was his own teammate. the 22 year old from monaco
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outperformed the german and several incidents led to speculation their rivalry was causing problems. believes he can do even better this year the approach is a little bit different because now i know the team i know more as the car. but it's still an improvement so we've been working all together to make it better. and to be ready for for the shia world champions miss avies revealed their new look car on monday they hope will power titleholder lewis hamilton to a 7th championship equaling michael schumacher his record old. ferrari have an epic challenge to topple them pre-season testing begins next week with the 1st race in australia on march 15th. this is good news and these are the top stories john has reported 97 more deaths
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from the corona virus and more than 2000 new infections chinese officials say these figures are the lowest figures since january and predict the epidemic could be over by april international health officials warn it's too early to make that assumption . president john says his country really do whatever necessary to push back the syrian regime and it led by the end of this month he threatened to attack regime forces if any to his forces a high. bernie sanders is one the new hampshire primary where democrat voters are selecting a candidates to take on u.s. president donald trump in november's election 2nd in the race is former mayor pete but the judge who won the iowa caucuses. listen in authority president mahmoud abbas has told the united nations security council the palestinians will not accept the middle east plan but put forward by
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u.s. president donald trump abbas said the proposal would be so it would subject any palestinian state to apartheid conditions. this is the news from berlin for more you can follow us and twitter or visit our website that's dot com. this is deja news coming up next business news with stephen because the just a bit off the bat if you get.
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a few can enjoy the benefits of those the regime allows. kim jong un has introduced and insidious reward system to coerce allegiance to the regime. those who don't make it into the fun metropolis often cool and tongue very. have fun in pyongyang starts february 28th on w. the new coronaviruses suffocating business in asia trade and tourism continue to fall putting many firms in danger so where markets already betting on a turnaround. also on the show the e.u. is ready to its biggest ever trade deal with an emerging economy but there are concerns.
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