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i mean there's something wrong. with the cleaners social media shadow industry starts joining us on t w. t w news a line from berlin a comeback of sorts for germany's elite football and at the krona virus pandemic the good becomes the 1st major football league in europe to resume action after the lockdown but with new hygiene rules and no fans in the stadium it was not quite football as we know it also coming up. thousands of protesters call for an end to
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all through the virus restrictions in germany but he accused the government and scientists of lying about the dangers of the infection and saving measures to control the outbreak for unnecessary. plus the orchestra trapped in a german castle. these majestic surroundings have become a group of bolivian musicians but not by choice to be stranded because of the pandemic. i'm michael ok welcome germany's a buddhist leader became the 1st major european football league to resume play this weekend after 2 months break to the coronavirus pandemic all eyes were on the riviera darby as brewster dortmund thumped shall at home without any fans in the
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stadium. this doesn't look or sound like you usual been deceived again bullis your daughter been playing shaka in front of an empty stadium due to the coronavirus pandemic players who didn't start have to wear masks and keep their distance but what's not unusual is some of each machine erling holland scoring goals and 1900 groped a deadlock in the 26th minute for his 10th each goal of the season and it was a muted celebration with play as unable to embrace one and not bow. but there was no stopping to outland just before the break they made it to nil thanks to laugh i am sure. and it all started with this nifty pass from you until. the 1st half was one to forget. and so was the 2nd. one picked up exactly where they left off the top and added
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a 3rd goal minutes into the 2nd half and if that wasn't enough gay at all with the brace to seal a 4 nil victory for the black and yellow was. there now one point behind by and munich normally is 80000 but but we knew that we we had the support at home from the fans so we were not. we were never afraid of anything we knew that we're going to win dogman play is kept with tradition and end at the match with a celebration in front of an empty yellow wall. as we saw there were no supporters at any of the stadiums but that didn't stop fans from cheering on their team's fans gathered at home or in bars to follow the matches and support their favorite team like here in dublin all clubs had urged their fans read here to create a virus restrictions. we spoke
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earlier to deja vu sports davis up door who was standing outside brewster dortmund's home ground we asked him how much of an impact he thought the empty stadium had on the players well a lot of these teams around the been listening have actually brought in psychologists to specifically deal with that question sebastian who is one of the members of the front office a former player for prison dormant he said that that's one thing that they've been actually trying to mention to prepare the players for during the coronavirus hiatus is the fact that they were going to be playing in games without fans so whenever they scored a goal you didn't hear the thunderous roar of cheering that you normally would hear when the ball hits the back of the net so there's definitely a mental aspect that the players have to prepare for if you were standing outside the stadium during the game you wouldn't even have noticed that a match was taking place there were people cycling by also just walking and and just in as if they would normally do and then occasionally besides perhaps a few whistles or perhaps some few cheers when one of the players scored there were
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no other sounds from the stadium so it was incredibly quiet after considering how big of a game it was for german football we should mention the bush league has returned so far has been without incident at least for the most part the german football league has advised players to keep their distance even when celebrating goals but berlin's . along with his team mates didn't follow that advice if you surveyed scored her 2nd goal when there were no over hoffenheim and lucky for the subjects the league said no sanctions will be handed down for such celebrations obesity which had this to say following the match. really hide your emotions for saying i asked our doctor before the match if the goal would count if someone does something like that that was the most important thing for me it's hard in those moments motions take over and we also way to defend a long time to be allowed to play. off let's give you look at the
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results from the match day 26 in the bundesliga so far as we saw dortmund dominated shaka 4 goals to nil or be light sick in freiburg share of the spoils her took berlin down hoffenheim 3 nil a school or straw for dusseldorf and powder borne out spurs lose to wilson berg munch munch and claude buck when at frankfurt lots of action to look forward to on sunday including by in munich at berlin moving on now protests were held in cities across germany on saturday against the government's current virus restrictions small demonstrations have been taking place since the end of march but the crowd swelled last weekend despite many of the curbs being eased political analysts fear the protests are being weaponized by far right extremists to sow divisions within society. that protesting against the
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government's corona restrictions and supporting more freedom once again thousands are gathering in stuttgart families with children corona deniers or people who are afraid of compulsory vaccinations. because it just can't be there we're being beaten down and off fundamental rights are taken away from us that this is our lives this is all a deprivation of liberty and it's manipulating people and frightening in tiny groups of society that's crazy right by it because i'm the mother of 3 i want them to go totally free as i did i don't want to have to secretly meet up with my trying to 3 year old daughter from across germany organizers have called for demonstrations against the restrictions such as this one here in berlin. in munich only 1000 people are allowed to the demo but at times more came. political scientist tom mann of it sees similarities between the protests and the beginnings of the far right to get a movement going to i'm sorry i don't believe that the number of people on happy
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with democracy in the government's policies has risen over the polarization between the 2 sides has become huge with you and has come back again jus to the corona crisis a corner of much of talkativeness. experts like none of it a warning that the protest movement could radicalize you can already see more and more right wing extremists gathering. earlier we asked our chief political editor michelle or cliff know why the demonstrations are still continuing now they germany is coming out of lockdown. yes that doesn't really seem to make sense i mean their argument of course is that before they simply weren't illegally allowed to gather and as we saw in munich today more people turned up than were allowed for instance on the 10 days in visa that's the location where you see the october fest is when 1000 demonstrators had gathered the police started dispersing the crouse some see that as evidence that the state is against freedom of speech and freedom of demonstrations and of gathering at the same time we hear policymakers time and time
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again say that they want to keep those restrictions as short as possible and now those are being taken back out back from the state and at that moment in time we see more demonstrators there's a clear concern here that this is yet another expression of movements many to the far right and in fact one for 50 politician has been spotted at such a demonstration in in the brand of today simply to question the very or 30 of the state's predictions amongst experts though point to the fact that these might go away as all of us directions are lifted we're still quite a bit away from that but we're simply down that road 81 percent of germans according to the native polls reject these demonstrations so we can say this is a minority but it's a very loud one and the next couple of weeks will tell whether this could lead to
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a great a movement beyond this moment in time. chief political editor michelle let's give you a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world more than 15000 people have now died of covert 9000 in brazil that's according to the country's ministry of health the number of confirmed infections has also risen to over 230000 making brazil the country with the 4th highest number of cases in the world after the us russia and then you can. in hong kong police move quickly to break up new anti-government protests in shopping malls several arrests were made protests have flared again in hong kong following the release of an official report on friday clearing police of wrongdoing they had been accused of using brutality against pro-democracy demonstrators last year. french police have arrested a man wanted for years in connection with the 994 rwandan genocide. had been living under
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a false identity in paris the 84 year old was indicted by the un's criminal tribunal for rwanda on 7 counts including genocide and crimes against humanity. hopping across the atlantic an explosion in downtown los angeles caused a major blaze that left 11 firefighters injured they had been inside a building housing a hash oil factory after an initial report of a fire more than 240 firefighters were sent to battle the fire before he was extremely. well it sounds like a fairy tale coming to germany to play a concert and ending up living in a castle but for one believe you an orchestra it's more like a bad dream they came for a short trip and ended up stuck in the idyllic surroundings of ryan's brick palace just northwest of the german capital here berlin when international flights were suspended because of the. money's tight and they have no idea when they will be
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able to return home. believe in music in brandenburg the castle and its beautiful gardens seem like a perfect backdrop for it but the musicians are not still here in eastern germany by choice he's about as and. and the orchestra were trapped when bolivia closed its borders and it doesn't yet have a program to fetch it citizen straight abroad. i always want to make music even now. i organize things and support my colleagues and try to raise people's spirits with my positive attitude many of the musicians are sad and demotivated because we can't go home but you mustn't give up you have to stay active to cope with the situation. all together 25 bolivian musicians are living on the castle grounds most are outside their home country for the 1st time. there is no social distancing here but these
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musicians are keeping strictly to themselves should one of them test positive for the coronavirus they would all be confined to their rooms. they were hers every day. the experimental orchestra performs at least 2 concerts a week just for themselves the music gives them a daily routine and help stave off homesickness boredom and anxiety what i wish is sacha we all come back. to our country safe and cool in. and knowing that our relatives that our families are ok because the situation here is kind of controlled in germany i didn't believe there's always an uncertainty in cetacean it's not that easy. berlin ensemble had invited them to play at a festival opening concert but the orchestra never got up on stage 3 of the berliners
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volunteered to move into the castle with them and have been taking care of things in quarantine including finding financial support but after almost 70 days they're running out of options. vias come from we're fighting and we've managed to raise a lot of money but soon i don't know wes it's done and i wish that our governments german really gets through to one equipment there should be the possibility to talk and to solve our problem. trapped in one of the most beautiful locations in brandenburg despite the adele except roundings everyone here can hardly wait for their castle lockdown to come to an end. the eurovision song contest was supposed to take place in rotterdam in the netherlands this weekend but instead the event was held online this time around with artists streaming their performances former your vision winner. from the group welcome viewers to the
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broadcast. everybody knows why there couldn't be usual eurovision this year. but we hope this show comforts you in some small way there was no official voting and no winner was 6 where is your vent europe shines white featured songs from 41 national artists who also sang together in a combined anthem this is d w news i'm michael oku we'll see you at the top of the hour with more news. if nothing else it's not easy to go to another country and know nothing about why i don't do this because we can't stay here and it's way into. that. closely global news that matters d.w. made for mines.
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