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this is deja vu news live from berlin tonight germany in the morning after a far right extremist killed 10 people with immigrant backgrounds the government walked into 2 bars in the city of han near frankfurt and killed his victims execution style prosecutors are treating this as an act of terrorism german chancellor angela merkel today expressed her condolences. with people across the
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whole of germany i shares the deep pain shall today by the people of high now over the fruitful jaques of so many of our fellow citizens the german the president from culture steinmeyer joined other political leaders to lay wreaths at the scene of the attack to see said that he stands with all those who are threatened by racist hatred and he added you are not alone. i'm boring it's good to have you with us it has happened again germany is reeling tonight following the deaths of 10 people in another far right terror attack a suspected far right extremist with a gun walked into 2 bars in the western city of han l. near frankfurt he targeted people of color and he shot them execution style the
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suspect is a 43 year old german man police are naming him toby as are now he is reported to have later shot and killed his own mother before turning the gun on himself. the morning after in hand. residents woke up to speculation that far right extremism motivated attacks in their neighborhood the severity of the incident is being felt far beyond the city strong condemnation from the german chancellor. racism is poison heat. and this poison exists in our society and it is to blame for far too many crimes already. at 10 o'clock last night local time the shooter opened fire in a hookah bar and killed 4 people before driving to a 2nd venue where he shot dead 5 more people the bar owner son describes what happened. it was like
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a massacre. around page there was blood everywhere people on the ground. my kids and i were in good spirits. i live 100 meters from here and when i went upstairs i had 567 shots that's what i saw and had. and i was at st john's a service of on the one hand you feel a bit powerless and on the other hand i don't want to call it fear but it's something like that that you have to be afraid to go out on to go to a bar but. also a good. many of the victims are believed to be of turkish or kurdish descent prosecutors say the gunmen. following the discovery of a confession letter the attack is being treated as an act of terror the suspect had
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uploaded a video to youtube a few days earlier in which he expressed his extremist ideology. the suspect along with his 72 year old mother were later found dead in his home. police are searching the property and seizing items of interest as part of their investigation . it's been tough and we looked out of the window and saw a lot of police officers. around $25.00 to $30.00 with 20 big cars and dogs and they were running around. since. the attack comes amid growing concerns about far right violence in germany investigations are ongoing. for more and now we want to go to the site of the shootings my colleague correspondent kate brady is joining me now let's bring that camera around kate there you are you've been following this story for us all day
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what have you heard from the people there was in the reaction there to these attacks. well this 1st so for my speed or reaction of shock air that this has happened yet again of course it's only 4 months since we saw that fall right tara attack against a synagogue in the eastern german city of hala but there was also a sense of frustration here today among many members of of locals here and especially among the turkish community of course many of them are in fact german but they voiced their concerns to me as well saying that now they are wondering that even now so many years after that i'm sisters most likely their grandparents if not the great grandparents moved here from turkey to germany to help rebuild the country in the 1950 s. and 1960 s. they still feel as though they don't belong completely to germany and that they have viewed as some kind of other by some of the germans because they perhaps are
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perceived to at least look different all they don't have a traditionally german name so there was a lot of frustration voiced as well when front of the german president arrived this afternoon to lay flowers and pay his respects to victims but we can have a listen now to what else he had to say at the memorial service. that's been seen as. this year old enough to know. what happened last night here in home now has left us stunned it's not the ones that makes us sad when his mother. songs and it makes us angry plus the scene is this is what happened was terrible. what happened is something that we all fear most deeply. losing people who we love the dimensions of a. neat skull and nothing can take away our pain. nothing can explain this senseless act and nothing can only do it. when you see in.
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you know here we have to think it was just a couple of weeks ago the german president was that marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of saying that he was hoping that his people would be able to learn their lesson one day and now we have this attack it does certainly makes you think let me ask you what more do we know tonight about the gunman himself well what we do now at least is that he did actually writes a letter missing so the shoe saying no which police have since found him and in the days ahead of last night's shooting he also posted a video online as well in which he voiced much fall right extremist ideology but investigators are still searching his house and have throughout the day been taking away items that might be of interest to that to their investigation and i'm sure that we will be hearing more details about his background and to what extent and
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how he became radicalized and became part of germany's far right extremist see in the coming days we know that when the german president today was speaking before he spoke and after he spoke there were some people who were shouting at him asking him you know when are you going to do something what are you going to do. is there a feeling there where you are among people that that this far right extremism is somehow out of control that the authorities have not addressed it the way they should. i think they certainly feel that it hasn't been addressed appropriately of course if you just look within the past year this is the 3rd deadly full right terror attack a in germany last year we saw the killing and shooting of live a local regional politician and then we also saw of course the attack that i mentioned previously in holland on a synagogue in. 2 passes by were killed in that attack and here we are again and it
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is a strange to listen to those words again coming from today very similar from previous events and which is left to many people asking when does this stop of course the authorities have rolled out a number of new measures in a bid to tackle far right extremist violence both on the streets in society but also online but very clearly there's still a lot of work to be done indeed our correspondent he's pretty there in. the site of those deadly shootings kate thank you. so here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a boat carrying over 90 migrants has apparently gone missing in the mediterranean according to the u.n. refugee agency the inflatable boat hearing mainly african migrants. from. about 50 kilometers east of the libyan capital tripoli there's been no communication with any of the migrants since the boat said. at least 19 people have
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been killed in a bus crash in southern india the vehicle why does it all with the truck 23 people were injured the bus was in route to the state of koala from bangalore. roger stone a longtime adviser and ally of us president trump has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for 7 counts of lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering charges stemming from an investigation into alleged collusion between russia and the trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. campaigning has ended in iran after or ahead of a parliamentary election on friday it will be the 1st such poll since the u.s. withdrew from the international nuclear deal and reimposed saying sions on the country many arabians have endured severe economic hardships as a result opposition figures are calling for a boycott of the election saying it doesn't give people
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a real choice as to research roper reports tonight from tehran. to touch research business is slow and life has become more difficult even here in northern tehran in an old district with many wealthy presidents few people here think much will change after friday's election. that people want lots of different changes but nothing ever happens the system has to concede ground and start caring about the people my only by doing this would it be able to survive for another 40 years if your model was seen you know just sort of that you come up here to take your tears you came isn't an eggplant now cost $10000.00 to man were voting really make a difference. i don't expect anything nothing from the parliament and nothing from the president if they really represented the people they would have long since done something but all they do is talk names and. skepticism is
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a problem for the reformist candidates close to president rouhani their promise of increased prosperity by working with the west is one they haven't been able to keep many have been disqualified by the guardian council from even running and those who have been know that chances are. the mood in the opposing campaign office couldn't be more different hardliners like say at mohamed hussein he feels their time has come and they want to win back parliament in alexandria. it's time to end the cooperation with the west to stop trusting western countries. people are turning to what's coming that's who support the values of islam and revolution all year hardworking people who believe our region must show resistance his own initiative all it matters. to a resistance to the west the islamic republic sounding noticed seems to be enjoying
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a comeback at the moment but analysts say that recent tensions with the us arch enemy 6. when you have so much pressure from abroad people tend to be more conservative so you have what happened to a major general officially it was announced that he was assassinated supreme which tend to feel that this is a major security issue for iran and right now we have to be tough to keep the integrity of the country. let's go to apathy is strong even in the traditionally conservative stronghold of iran. i would i'd rather cut off my arms and legs than go out and vote there are no real elections here in iran just appointments the guardian council in other words how menai makes all the decisions these candidates are stooge. is it won't achieve anything. the hardliners may well emerge victorious in this election but no voter participation could also be interpreted it as
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a vote of no confidence. or the berlin film festival the belly knowledge is now underway as the festival's 70th year in the opening film is my salinger year starring sigourney weaver alien thing but this is anything but science fiction think of the. huge 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 stories on their personal each wins. we have blossomed this is blatant copyright infringement and we are going to have to scour the world wide web to put an end to it definitely not alien they're all right here's a reminder the top story we're following for you germany is in mourning after a far right extremist killed the 10 people the gunman walked into bars in the city of hotmail near frankfurt and shot his victims dead most of them came from an
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