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it's. this is deja vu news live from berlin a very high threat chilling words from germany's interior minister after the racist killing of 10 people near frankfurt he warns of the danger of far right extremists and pledges new measures as the government tries to quell anger after wednesday wednesday terror attacks but will that be enough. also coming up iranians vote for a new parliament as the opposition urges people to boycott the election we'll explain why that worries the hard line leaders. and a star studded hollywood glamour of the berlin film festival in the form of johnny
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depp he's premiering the film me not to replace an activist for tough. times sumi so much kind of good to have you with us we start with the aftermath of the shootings in the german city of han how that have jolt of the country interior minister of course a whole thing has announced a stronger police presence across the country to counter what he describes as a very high security threat from the far right that comes after the terrorist attack in one now 2 nights ago when 10 people were killed by a suspected right wing extremist one which is near frankfurt has a multiethnic population of about 100000 some of the shooting victims were of turkish and kurdish descent the citizens of one hour trying to come to terms with what happened. the city and shock the crime scenes
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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 people got a few nice victory for. those tears echoed among members of a local youth club is a. kind of 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 longer inconceivable that's what's happened to skandha mohammed at this shisha bar could happen to them. as old as i lay on the floor covering my wound and looking left and right with people drawing their final breath
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and have blood everywhere. that's when i realized that this was a shooting. this is. a real sense of anxiety was evident out of it joel berlin spondon bear 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 home and leave them with the far i say f t a growing force in parliament has t.j. now says a day things that politics is part of the problem she lost a cousin in the attack. there a part of us that is now gone and they will not come back goodbye has to stop and they would not be brought back by the words of
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a politician because until the border. as far right violence increases in germany as azadeh says talking a good game is not good enough. let's go right to where you give us kate brady is standing by for us hi kate this is a city that is still very much in mourning tell us what has been going on there where you are. well as you might be able to see behind me siri many mourners and locals have been back out again this evening to read lights and lay fresh flowers and candles that was laid out here yesterday evening in the hours and the day after that shooting on wednesday evening and throughout the day today there have been a couple of events taking place earlier on today in the marketplace some 200 people joined hands in a sign of solidarity against the full rights of fall right extremism and earlier just within the last hour or so as several close friends locals and some close
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relatives of some of those victims in wednesday night's shooting actually gathered here just behind me just meters away from the scene of the 1st in that double shooting and they shed not only the names of the victims that were killed on wednesday but also held a minute's silence voiced some of their feelings as well much frustration was voiced during that memorial calling on politicians here in germany to take more action kate what more can you tell us about the victims from the shooting. well several more details have come to light within over the course of today we now know that 9 of the victims were foreign this sent some of them foreign nationals some of them german nationals among them with a few with 5 turkish people a bulgarian one pass from from bosnia had to go of me and also romania and also we know now that the ages of those victims ranged from just 21 to just 44 years old
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and among them 2 was a pregnant woman and another example just a young man who had just recently finished his examiner's and we can take a listen now to what one father had to say on losing his daughter in wednesday's shooting. the words your border you. hear she was only 35 years old. she came here to eat a pizza and drink a coke and then she was shot down. close. to her i ask all of hanukkah to understand what happened here the tragedy. were so devastated and the children. who were going through. can't you hear their unimaginable grief the outpouring of emotion you mentioned that there have also been voices of frustration what are people there demanding from authorities. well 1st and foremost they want to see more action taken by politicians here in
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germany they feel that they have been looking away for far too long particularly when it comes to far right extremism and of course we have seen a slow but steady rise in far right extremist violence here in germany this is the 3rd attack deadly attack in the within the last year less than a year even so people want to see politicians taking more action and not necessarily just putting more police force on the streets but also perhaps a fundamental rethinking of german identity and exactly what it means to be german and who really is included in that in 2020. k. to brady reporting from honduras thank you. let's check in now and some other stories making news around the world listen to this prime minister thomas to bonnie has failed to appear in court to face charges connected to the killing of a strange 1st wife his sons esteban he went 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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to bonny is trying to flee justice. and the taliban is set to begin observing a week long period of reduced violence in afghanistan the measure is supposed to show the militants 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 a parliamentary election but many moderate candidates have been barred from competing by iran's guardian council the country's president hassan rouhani is urged people to vote made predictions of a low turnout many are expected to boycott the poll to defend the country's leaders the election comes amid ongoing economic hardship under prickling u.s. sanctions conservative iranian hardliners looks set to dominate the selection. and let's go to davies reporter today setup a she is in tehran at a polling station for us hi today so how has the voter turnout been today.
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well there are still some people voting here at this polling station and all of us to run with not as many as 4 years ago back then people were still curious outside at this time of day to cast their votes and today it's a lot more quiet if you take a look around it's fairly empty here and it's looks the same in other polling stations in tirana we checked one in the east and one in the conservative south and what they were also fairly empty with more than 50 percent of the candidates banned from running this time many iranians feel that not at all to get all this the only chance they have to show that they do in order to free so many told me they're staying at home so we're expecting the lowest turnout in his chair at least in the capital tehran today so we've seen some western media reports that the coronavirus might actually be a factor in terms of voter turnout is that true. i really don't think that is the case we just moved around the city because we moved from
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one polling station to another one and the streets were crowded people were driving . roland also walking around visiting families and friends on this friday evening so we write ins are not afraid to move both sides even with a grow no break so i really don't think that plays a role in this election at all to so we have to say that this really is the 1st test of iran's leadership since that huge escalation with the us at the beginning of this year do you think we could still see a surprise result in these elections. no i think that's not very likely because many reformists a ban from this election as i said but also many iranian voters don't see a reason why they should vote for the so-called reformists in this election because many to run and did so during the last election because they've reformists promised another different future a better future for iranians but that never happened so the reformist couldn't fulfill their promises and now many iranians feel they have let them down this is
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no reason to vote for them and also the most people who come here to vote today are the ones that want to more hard line approach a problem and that one more resistance against the west so that's why it's highly likely that the principle is and the hardliners emerge victorious from this problem and 3 electric. these 2 days that talk of reporting from a polling station there in tehran thank you very much. well as iranians vote health officials there have announced 2 more deaths resulting from the corona virus 18 cases have been confirmed all in the city of como where officials have closed all schools for the week levanon has also confirmed its 1st corona virus case globally more than 76000 people have been infected and more than 2200 have died the world health organization warns that the window of opportunity to stem the corona virus outbreak is shrinking giving us given a surge in cases with no clear link to china. although the total number of cases outside china remains relatively small we are concerned about the number of cases
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with nor clearly if you demurely you can link such as travel history to china or contact with a confirmed case meanwhile in ukraine there have been violent clashes over plans to quarantine dozens of people of that you waited from the coronavirus epicenter in china locals in the town of know the century in the center of the country say they were not prepared for the new arrivals. the i see is over the spread of the coronavirus trigger an eruption of violence thousands of kilometers from china. efforts to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from mohan plunged this ukrainian town into chaos hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police into the night. i never at that says that was the response you were afraid of being infected it just spread all over the world even to egypt but those
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countries can't be compared with ours then why didn't they prepare and organize to somewhere else not in our village that you don't get around them nothing on important. hospitals on the just the 2 i sleeping here. we don't want to come in isolation zone exclusion zone we are going to live here and we don't want this to become a new route hard for people from that which will know we're going to file interrupted outside the facility where the evacuees and now under quarantine. locals tried to block the road the lighting fires and pelting the arriving buses with starnes. otho already say the 45 ukrainians and 27 foreign nationals on board had been screened twice for the virus before being allowed to fly cyril the new what we know when you put me in
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a position is arkell paula back here to the people who are at the hospital healthy the more you know that there are no reasons to say that there are ill it's almost as acute churchills partly just go measures on the way to accommodate people comfortably that is local to the border border to be good for the world to stay for so the prime minister has tried to assure locals they have nothing to worry about. please before the door via the health minister has agreed to stay with these people in this hospital ward 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's day 2 of the badly nala and the stars don't get much brighter than johnny depp he's from marrying the film minamata where he plays an activist photographer depp says he felt a personal responsibility to tell the story of how big business covered up the mercury poisoning of japanese coastal communities in the 1970 s.
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