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this is deja vu news live from berlin and a very high threat chilling words from germany's interior minister after the racist killing of 10 people near frankfurt he blames far right extremists and announces new measures as the government tries to reassure people and calm anger after the terror attack but will it be enough. also coming up iranians vote for a new parliament will explain why the opposition is urging people to boycott the polls and why that worries the hardline leaders. and on day 2 of the berlin film
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festival held on humphrey and david leavitt's to have all the action from the red carpet. hollywood acted johnny depp is great he waves throughout the festival with the world premiere of his latest movie minamata we have a sneak preview for you of that and a look out pixar latest release coming up until later on the show. time sunni so much going to thank you for joining us we start with the aftermath of the shootings in the german city of handouts that have shocked the country interior minister hasse a hoffa says there will be stronger police presence across the country to counter what he describes as a very high security threat from the far right 10 people were killed by a suspected right wing extremist and 2 nights ago the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack the city near frankfurt has a multiethnic population of about 100000 some of the shooting victims were of
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turkish descent other victims had kurdish origins as the anguish sinks in many in the culturally diverse city are worried about the future. condo is a city in shock the crime scenes a place for mourners to pay their respects they say the impact of the murders goes beyond the tragic loss of life. does this really worries me the social and political climate in germany is very scary. as a german with a migration background i feel unsafe will go a few victory for. those fears echoed among members of a local youth club. he said a phobia has reached the center of our society and we germans with a migration background we feel this. many germans of foreign descent say it's no
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longer inconceivable that's what's happened to skandha mohammed at this shisha bar could happen to them. as is. as old as i lay on the floor covering my wound and looking left and right with people drawing their final breath and have blood everywhere. that's when i realized that this was a shooting. a real sense of anxiety was evident out of it joel berlin spawn to gaze on thursday evening. you know this is this is terrible i have lived in germany for 20 years and always felt at home here. but after what happened yesterday i feel like i have a target on my back. german president frank steinmeier has been offering comfort to han i was shaken residents dissolve and leave than what the far i say f d a growing force in parliament has e.j.
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knows azadi thinks that politics is part of the problem she lost a cousin in the attack has put on there a part of us that is now gone. they will not come back. and they will not be brought back by the words of a whole titian dozen people who are doing. as far right thought lintz increases in germany. says talking a good game is not good enough. right let's go right to hunt now where do you skate brady is standing by for us there hi kate what more can you tell us at this point about the victims of this attack. well several more details have come to light in the last few hours we now know that 9 of the 10 people who were shot in that wednesday night shootings were actually of foreign descent somewhere either foreign or german nationals and of the 9 people that was shot at the 2 close to those bars they were all aged just between 21 and 44 years old there was one
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pregnant woman among those victims as well as a young man who had fled to bosnia during the war with his family as well as another young man who had just finished his exams and we can take a listen now to what one father had to say having lost his daughter in wednesday's 9 terrorist. all right here good to you my child was murdered here she was only 35 years old. she came here to eat a pizza and drink a coke and then she was shot down. because i ask all of hono to understand what happened here a tragedy that i mean i should add to that we're devastated and the children. who. are. kate such an incredibly difficult time for the victims' families and their friends and relatives i mean how have people there been expressing their grief today. was the day they was just
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a couple of hours ago and memorial held just behind me a demonstration if you will of somewhere around $200.00 people who united in a sign of solidarity against for rights extremism they held hands and that is being organized via social media into the hash tag we can now but many people throughout the afternoon have been coming paying their respects to the victims laying flowers and candles and it seems have you spoken to many people around the city center today it seems that somehow everyone knew one of the victims either directly or shall we say through some 3 degrees of separation so what happened here on wednesday night really is hitting home with many many people here who have been only if they haven't lost relatives or loved ones themselves they know someone who has kids so there are signs of solidarity there today and what are people telling you about their concerns are they afraid for their own safety. certainly some
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people are and many people that i've spoken to particularly people of foreign descent who you are even themselves german nationals say that they're not sure anymore whether they should be closing up their shops early but at the same time they don't know whether some of the measures that have been announced like bringing more police presence to the streets of germany whether that's really the answer and whether instead germany should be having a closer look at the fundamental change the change in thinking of how immigrants and how people of foreign descent are accepted here. kate brady reporting from the ground there thank you so much. but as we said this is a terror attack that has shocked the country we have our chief political editor michelle are with us she's been following the investigation and the political reaction as well hi michelle thanks for joining us at the german interior minister jose. he held a press conference today talking about the aftermath what is the good german government planning to do here well in concrete terms say he says there will be
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more police presence outside sensitive sites also including some mosques but at the same time he stressed that there wouldn't be any call for legal changes in fact just on wednesday in the german cabinet a hate crime hate speech law was being debated was being discussed that's being brought on its way and there's a sense that the government really has to react by using all the measures available to its max and quite clearly politicians are also understanding that there won't be a simple moving on that was a direct question towards him how much blame lies with the far right if the party in the parliament he said he couldn't really comment on that but then pointed to a quote of one of the leading figures of the f.t. saying that the nazi period that docked in history was only a stopping in german history and that that really prepared the ground for people who clearly had mental issues to then move towards actually taking violent action
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here so there you have it and this is a new chapter in the political debate we're seeing here now on this question this broader question of far right extremism in germany had some strong words about this let's listen to a clip from that press conference taught. on the critically a terror attack with a racist motivational after the murder photo look at the attack against the synagogue and howler this is driving terrorist attack in germany in just a few months. or so. since the end as you know the rampage in munich a trail of blood has been left by right wing extremism in our country up until this very. you heard it there michel that's very chilling a trail of blood i mean how seriously is the government taking this threat is taking it very seriously and to me has seen a learning curve from what was just mentioned there the and it's you basically on
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the ground terrorist trio which managed to kill people in broad daylight for most a decade and the authorities were unable or unwilling to connect the dots i also spoke to security officials around that press conference he said yes this really was a turning point in thinking that authorities are no longer blind on the right that was put also in many reports that no longer simply is the focus on muslim extremist terrorism this is also something muslim representatives deplore that this is always seen as a threat but then they really are the victims and we saw the interior minister for the very 1st time say that the right wing extremists read was the biggest threat to durban security at this moment in time that is significant and as you said they the government is promising concrete measures your concrete steps to fight far right extremism and there was also a press conference from muslim associations today what did they make of the government's reaction while they welcome that but they say that
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a lot of trust has been broken there they want to see their concerns being taken seriously they say many of them there are they are germans they've listen this is size for decades and they've been through several episodes of debate. actually belongs to germany and they want an end to that they want to no longer be question marks over their identity and they too are very concerned about the climate of debate here in germany and what violence could spring from that all right our chief political editor with us thank you very much. and let's check in now on some other stories making news around the world prime minister thomas to bonnie has failed to appear in court to face charges connected to the killing of his strange 1st wife his son said he had gone to south africa for a medical check up police say they will issue an arrest warrant if it's proven that
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obama is trying to flee justice. libya's military strongman star has said he will accept a cease fire if turkish and syrian mercenaries leave the country in an interview with russian media he also demanded that turkey stop arming libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli this week the government to pulled out of un hosted ceasefire talks after huffed us forces shelled to tripoli support. the taliban is set to begin observing a week long period of reduced violence in afghanistan this measure is supposed to show the militants a commitment to peace and it will start on saturday if the agreement holds it could pave the way to finalizing a peace deal between the insurgents and the us. iranians are voting in parliamentary elections many moderate candidates have been barred from competing iran's guardian council rejected almost half of the candidates the country's president hassan rouhani has urged people to vote amid predictions of
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a low turnout many are expected to boycott the poll to divide the country's leaders the election comes amid ongoing economic hardship under prickling u.s. sanctions conservative iranian hardliners are expected to dominate these elections . let's go to did you correspondent to a setup a she is at a polling station in tehran for us hi took place to tell us what the voter turnout has been like today. well some people are voting here in this polling station an instant to run but not as many as 4 years ago when people were queuing up outside the polling stations to cross the vote and it's not just quiet here it's also quiet outside a polling station and all that and silent iran where we checked it was more than 50 percent of the candidates bad from running this time many iranians feel not voting is the only way they have to show that they do not agree so many people told me they're going to stay at home today so we're really expecting to see the lowest
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turnout in years here in the. islamic republic at least in the capital che run this is just on thursday the us sanctioned 5 iranian officials on grounds of electoral manipulation what a fact will that have on the spot. well that was a largely symbolic move that is not going to have any real consequences here inside iran not on today's vote and for sure not on the people affected by those sanctions that's members of the guardian council iran's elektro watchdog but it's important to see that there's been also a lot of criticism inside iran about the mass disqualification ahead of this election especially since it was mostly reformists that got banned and so many of principle is candidates now don't have any real competition in many areas of iran and even the president rouhani himself has criticized that saying iranians should have a real choice at the ballot box. to say this really is the 1st test of iran's leadership since the on rest with the u.s.
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at the start of this year could we still see a surprise result in these elections. that's not very likely because they failed to deliver on the promise so people are disappointed now and the only people that come out to vote today are now in the arms of wonder more hardline approach by parliament more resistance to the west and so that's why it's very likely that the principle is that hardliners will emerge victorious from this election. he did use today that top a reporting from a polling station there in tehran thank you very much. you're watching the news still to come star studded hollywood glamour at the berlin film festival in the form of johnny depp coupled with pixar perfection in the animated blockbuster on words are headed for the red carpet. but 1st china has reported an increase in corona virus cases with more than 400 new
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infections in chinese prisons alone globally the viral outbreak has infected some 76000 people and killed more than 2200 in south korea the number of reported cases nearly doubled to more than 200 in a single day most of those affected are members of a religious sect the outbreak makes south korea the worst affected country outside of china. elsewhere violent clashes erupted in ukraine over fears that evacuees arriving from china could be infected with the coronavirus. oh i see is over the spread of the corona virus trigger an eruption of violence thousands of kilometers from china. if it's to current seen more than 70 people evacuated from rouhani plunged the stew craney in town into chaos hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police into the night. i never went back to that
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was the launch you were fraid of being infected it just spread all over the world even to egypt but those countries can't be compared with ours and why didn't they prepare and organize to somewhere else not to know a village that you personally don't get and there's nothing on him more of. the just to isolate him here. we don't want to come an isolation zone exclusion zone we are going to live here and we don't want this to become a new route for people to quit your job to move us and we're going to buy lancer opted outside the facility with evacuees and now under quarantine. locals tried to block the road the lighting fires and pelting the arriving buses with starnes. oath already say the 45 ukrainians and 27 foreign nationals on board had been screened twice for the virus before being allowed to fly here to the
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you will know when you believe in them but there's this article paula back here to people who are at the hospital healthy where you can stop most of them there are no reason to say that they're elderly is obviously as acute churchills by logistical measures are on their way to accommodate people comfortably but you socketed the board for board will be called for from the early states or the prime minister has tried to assure locals they have nothing to worry about. before the door to the health minister has agreed to stay with these people and this hospital was demonstrates that there is no threat to your craniums for. several offices and civilians were injured in the violence. dozens of protesters were arrested. now here in berlin it is day 2 of the belly now a film festival and the stars don't get much brighter than this man johnny depp he is premiering his film minamata he says he feels a personal responsibility to tell the story of how big business covered up the
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mercury poisoning of japanese coastal communities in the 1970 s. . i think following it in the herald in the time small stories every couple of months were known as root covert i mean it's and we got the impression. and that's all those poor people have to. the times has a tokyo desk and we have deadlines literally in one sounds to me. yeah so i was over the years. and you know the cover up. is going to be as much of the stories the stories so. helena humphrey and david leavitt's are chasing the stars that the 70th berlin film festival there at the red carpet hi guys good to see you all eyes on the premiere of this film minamata tonight what more can you tell us about it. absolutely see me today is the day all good really with i mean some of the biggest star power we're talking about johnny
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depp is what is the british actor bill nye who also stars 80 minamata now mimosa tells the story all of a war photographer eugene it straight then we meet him at a time when he's suffering from 50 min at diction and he's an alcoholic as well so it's a chopping time he's also suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder you know perhaps unsurprisingly some of the genesis in the press conference question him johnny depp about some of the difficult moments in his personal life recently he wasn't ready to write they were trying to draw a parallel between w. eugene smith the character he's playing and johnny depp's own issues in the past years domestic violence allegations with his ex-wife amber heard johnny depp stuck to his guns talked about this story the story is that in 1971 w. eugene smith the photographer went to minamata japan to investigate the devastating effects of mercury poisoning and i mean it's a serious film but i think what is wonderful about this festival is that this is
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the largest public film festival in the world in fact see me so you know tonight we're expecting just hundreds thousands of members of the public from here in berlin people who traveled across germany coming out to see johnny depp bill nighy where we've got our ear plugs ready the all you have to do the grammy nominees just rolled up to the red carpet anyone can come see the stars so this is this is going to be the big night for that yeah a lot of star power there with johnny depp and you guys also got a chance to look at what could be one of the biggest commercial movies of the year called on board and we have a clip of that film let's take a look. here let me tell you what they need. to go to update our. i had my. your hair. are you guys anything pixar is generally great i mean you saw this film what's it
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like. oh man pixar there are 300 filmmakers working on this they worked on the story for 4 years alone and they just have total control over the audience i mean total control over our heartstrings our tears my palms were sweaty i kept being like oh no my plans are short if you're going to have a heart attack during some of the chase scenes unbelievable story teller i mean i think david made the really a very nice news if not turning up any tissues to this film which i told him before because we certainly need it and it was very moving it tells the story of 2 young boys in a fantastic elves who very sadly lost their father and then given the opportunity through a bit of magic to meet their dad and spend just 24 hours with him and they go on this incredible adventure with the spell that they're cast to bring back there that doesn't quite work because it only brings back as a lower half so they have to go on this quest to find his upper have magic and what's really cool about this is the dynamic between the 2 brothers the younger one
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is afraid of everything the older one is afraid of nothing and the older one is this role play magic nerd who thinks he knows everything about magic but it turns out it's the younger brother who actually has magical talents and i think what we pay found really moving is that at a press conference the directed and scanlan who came up with a screenplay actually said that it was inspired by his own story he lost his father when he was just one years old and his brother was 3 and they always wanted you know what they dad was like and try to retrace memories off him so it was inspired by that and some people are saying that perhaps this isn't the the best of the best of picks all but i mean i think let's be honest that's a pretty high standard right it is and what's what's really cool about this movie too is unlike a lot of other pixar and disney movies that are coming out of the moment this is not part of a franchise it's not a reboot it's not a sequel it's an actual standalone movie and they're showing that they still can do that yeah definitely looks like a beautiful film and it is expected to be a box office success but isn't the berlin film festival meant to be more art house
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. it is indeed that we got our 1st big taste of that today with a film called the intruder this is an argentinian production about a young voice artist named as who at the beginning of the film has a rather traumatic experience at least we think she does because it's hard to tell in this movie what's a dream nightmare or what's reality and blows the line and i think it's really interesting i mean this is the 1st time we've seen a female director here and met by name by nature i mean there were dreams within dreams it was also about according to the act is a new wave of feminism in latin america and kind of shaking off who controls you in life and it was supposed i mean a very philosophical question about whether we should pay and pay more attention to our dreams as opposed to our conscious waking life i mean it was very deep i generally pay more attention to my conscious life than my jeans at least i try to
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the theme of this year's berlin international film festival is inner turmoil outer chaos this movie definitely fills the bill it also had some inner chaos some outer turmoil all over the place where we're bracing for a lot more art house right in this vein all right our correspondent helen unfree and david leavitt's down the red carpet there guys good to see you enjoy johnny depp we'll talk to you live it later. this is news and these are our top stories germany is mourning the victims of a racist attack that killed 10 people in the city of hondo wednesday night germany's interior minister who has ordered police to ramp up security across the country to counter what he calls a very high security threat from the far right. iranians are voting in a parliamentary election but many are expected to boycott the poll in defiance of
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the country's leaders after iran's guardian council rejected almost half of the can't. tip's the vote comes amid ongoing economic hardship under crippling u.s. sanctions a strong showing for conservative iranian hardliners is likely a polling stations are staying open 2 hours longer. those prime minister thomas to bonnie has failed to appear in court to face charges connected to the killing of his the strange 1st wife his son said he had gone to south africa for a medical check up police said they would issue an arrest warrant if he is trying to flee justice. germany's biggest film festival is in full swing tonight the 70th belly nala premieres minamata a film by johnny depp about the mercury poisoning of japanese coastal communities in the 1970 s. 18 films are competing for the event's top prize. this is deja vu news from berlin for more follow us on twitter or visit our website dot com. coming up our
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