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kurdish or turkish origin germany is home to about 3000000 people with a turkish heritage and organization representing them has demanded that the authorities ensure a comprehensive and permanent focus on right wing extremism turkey's president's friendship type one that this is. all my own all knowledge and in the meantime i express my condolences to our expired trades who lost their lives in the german city of hono last night a lot i met. i wish patients for their families and friends. yet i wish a speedy recovery for our wounded. can't you name it our embassy and other relevant institutions are following the process with sensitivity. and we are offering the necessary support for us it is. all mama coming i believe that the german authorities will make every effort to shed light on all angles of this attack. and
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i know our data is correspondent yulia han is in istanbul for you among the 9 victims were those with the turkish origin what has been their reaction we just heard from the president. well the terror attack in hanno is making headlines here in turkey many t.v. channels have special coverage the turkish state broadcaster tira t.v. has been citing the turkish ambassador in the then according to him 5 people killed in the shooting were takesh citizens now this has from what i understand not been confirmed yet by the german all sora t's the state prosecutor the federal prosecutor just announced earlier that all 9 people killed not including the attacker and his mother were all for backgrounds now president. gave
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a rather brief statement today he expressed his condolences so did other government officials he also called the attack a he knew as attack a similar statement of by the turkish foreign minister the foreign ministry today there the rampage was called and i quote again and new and grave manifestation of the rising racism and hostility to islam it is not possible to consider these incidents as individual attacks anymore the foreign ministry statement reads it also accuses europe of not doing enough to fight racism and these concerns these accusations are being echoed here in the turkish media many channels for example are asking can muslims still feel safe in germany but no of course is home to the largest turkish community outside of turkey how loyal he
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claims impacts bilateral relations. yes said there are about 3000000 people off turkish origin including 1000000 ass make a living in germany that's the single largest a minority and this immigrant community is a hugely important factor determining the 2 countries relations so it's safe to assume that the turkish side will bring this attack up in diplomatic talks turkish officials have been very keen in recent he is all in the emphasizing that concerns when it comes to rising xenophobia and racism in germany sometimes it's almost as if they want to lecture the german counterparts at balloted sometimes that's because they're trying to appeal to voters all supporters but then again there is
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a reason for this concern and the attack in hanoi is also a painful reminder of the neo nazi a terrorist group that have been committed there in germany most of the victims back then. were people of the turkish origin with a turkish background you who porting from turkey with their reactions from there thank you. vigil for the victims of the attack is about to get underway in downtown berlin joining us now as you do some calls when he's at the brandenburg gate where the vigil is due to take place any moment now frank describe what's happening behind you. it's amazing in about of a few minutes time several 100 people suddenly appeared here in front of the brandenburg gate this national symbol of germany and photos of the length many
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people. what politicians is behind me out saying we have the main figures of the main parties of the christian democrats the social democrats here not only on a national level but also 3 percent of sense of the city of gold and together that many people in this and i'm going to say you a lot of people are sad but also angry when you talk to the to those people who are gathered behind you the crowd is swelling what have they been telling you i'd like to give it as one example we were able to talk to one pullin a with a turkish family background to build in a city with a lot just turkish population outside of turkey for the people of to turkish background and this person told us look i was born here ok i have family background that comes from turkey but also my children were born here and he said there's fundamentally something going on wrong in this country when something like this is happening like the incident in hono how upset are people by what occurred.
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look there are many people saying god are holding signs against the right wing steve paul t. here is saying anough is enough and this can't go on like this and again many people are convinced that we have a structural problem here in this country when a young man a man of 43 because of the age of 43 just can do this like doubt what he was doing last night in han and i thank the net reporting from brandenburg where people are gathering to pay their respects thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. firefighters rescued at least $85.00 people from a burning building in myanmar's commercial hub young got the 12 story structure in the cities of chinatown our area contains apartments and several stores safety
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standards are considered low in the city's downtown area after years of under investment. 3 men have been sentenced to prison for stealing a gold coin worth almost 4000000 euros from a court from berlin's abode museum while the robbery took place in 2017 the prison terms were handed down under used the crime provisions of 4 to hear 4 and a half years a 4th suspect was released. u.s. president donald trump has named his country's ambassador to germany richard grenell as acting director of national intelligence while cornell is a staunch supporter of trump's policies his new position puts him in charge of the nation's 17 spy agencies all critics say he has no experience in the field of fame i'm directing 2 passengers from a cruise ship or morad in japan have died after being infected by the corona virus
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13 more cases have been confirmed on the ship the diamond princess bringing the total to $634.00 well the japanese government is facing increasing criticism for its apparent failure to contain the virus after keeping the passengers of the ship in quarantine for 2 weeks it seems that that's africa to stop the spread of the kovac in 1000 virus has failed. cruise ships have long been described as floating petri dishes on board the diamond princess the monica is a grim reality. over 600 people quarantined on the luxury liner annoying to have contracted the new coronavirus. now 2 elderly passengers have died the man and woman were japanese citizens in their eighty's. passengers on wednesday began leaving the ship after a 2 week quarantine period it appears to have done little to stop the disease from
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spreading others recuperative here i was so afraid every time they made announcements about infections that there was so many of them. i wondered if we'd be next remarkable but. when the ship arrived in yokohama only 10 passengers tested positive for the virus. following the 14 day koren team period several countries have begun evacuating the citizens from the ship with others set to fall or search on thursday more than 100 former passengers returned home to hong kong on a chartered flight. the arrivals were headed for another 2 weeks of quarantine meanwhile more than 180 s. strelley and have also arrived at dol an airport they too are headed straight back into quarantine those infected with the virus remain in hospitals in japan for the
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passengers and crew who remain on board the diamond princess the ordeal continues. the berlin film festival or belinelli gets underway in a short while it's the festival's 70th year opening with the film my salinger year starring sigourney weaver of alien fame but this flick is anything but a science fiction. hugh discovered that people i don't know who these people are why they don't have more important things to do in their lives but people have been publishing whole salinger's stories on their personal whims with blogs. web blogs ridiculous this is blatant copyright infringement and we are going to have to scour the world wide web to put an end to it we're going to go back to our top story apologies that should be a different background and suspected far right terrorists shot dead 10 people near
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frankfurt here in germany the suspect opened fire into bars in the town of kano he is reported to have later killed himself and his mother in their apartment and of the people he shot dead were people of color the suspect a 43 year old german national left a letter admitting to the killings he also posted a video on you tube expressing racist and other extremist views federal prosecutors are treating the attacks as acts of terrorism. a very i'm suits transition so bear with me we're going to go back to the 1000000000 dollar because down at the red carpet are my highly esteemed colleagues bread and butter not about selling out humphrey and david leavitt's guys looking fabulous you already saw the opening film my salinger year how was it. you know i think david and i came out of the movie theater we looked at each other and we sort of said dick we just watched devil way as projects through
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a kind of literary prison i mean it's that classic coming of age tale as a young girl from the west coast makes her way to new york city with high hopes all becoming a famous poet one david things don't quite go to plan and margaret quali plays that young lady she ends up being working for sigourney weaver at this literary agency and her main job turns out to be responding to fan mail to the famous reclusive author j.d. salinger and basically telling his fans that they're not going to get any response from him but she starts to feel sorry for these lost souls who are writing these letters and she starts thinking about maybe writing some responses of her own yet the temptation i think is just too great and but it also plays a little bit with this idea of a golden age of mixture in the 21st century for example in the end of that time when people were still using typewriters when they were smoking copious amounts of cigarettes whilst churning out that or them potent manuscript thinking that the
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internet wouldn't have an impact on the publishing industry or the internet wasn't going to happen will give you are for review when the world premiere gets underway right behind us. i support wholeheartedly the global movement to address the inequality of women's rights and to protect them from abusive damaging and disrespectful horace munt i applaud the legislation of same sex marriage wherever it has been attained and suddenly i support wholeheartedly the right of women to have an abortion should they so decide well that's jeremy irons the setting the record straight guys. that's right jeremy irons is presiding over this year's jury here at the valley nona and he had to set the record straight because people reporters were digging up comments that he made very huge did not feel were appropriate for the jury president gave quite
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a speech there. all right guys thank you so much great catching up with you. are reminder now to our viewers just joining us of our main story of the day i suspect a foreign terrorist has shot dead 10 people near frankfurt here in germany the suspect now named by police as tobias are opened fire at 2 bars in the city of homs where he killed 9 people a foreign dissidents. like dusty muddy ties and drugs we deliver gynt lifesaving boxes we give our everything to reach those who need us the most every box feeding their futures. boxes for the heart of hope of lifesaving for years and there's so much more down roads with no names we've been listening to live on a relentless you know promise to make every delivery special. not
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