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every of the. bases d.w. news live from like a political development in afghanistan could be on the horizon president ashraf ghani and his rival abdullah abdullah have agreed to a power sharing deal because it would end months of political crisis in the country also on the program a grim milestone in brazil the country now has the 4th largest corona virus outbreak in the world brazil's health care system you're struggling to cope and experts warn the worst is yet to come. fast studies are on the way to see what the
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dogs could be trying to detect coronavirus humans before they show symptoms kids successful the canine stitches could be an antidote to important testing tools for the section. i'm rebecca it has welcome to the program reports a coming in of a k. political development in afghanistan president ashraf ghani and his rival abdullah abdullah have ended months of crisis by agree to share power and dylan had refused to accept danny's victory in last september's presidential election observers fear their failure to resolve this standoff was in danger and plans for a peace deal with the taliban. let's wait now to journalist alley live t.v. in kabul ali some positive news just bring us up to speed on this announcement what's been
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a great on. sure so the news is basically that you know there is now political agreement which will see dr up the law given the role of essentially leading all of honest peace efforts and getting to a point of officials in terms of that kind of a portfolio but he also will get to appoint cabinet positions up to 50 percent of the cabinet so it really is much more akin to some kind of a power sharing deal than the previous deal they had from 2014 to 2001000 in which dr ablow held the role of chief executive but didn't necessarily get the exact rights enshrined in this sort of an agreement where it stated specifically that he gets to choose up to 50 percent of the cabinet. they only lost weight we saw 2 appalling attacks including one on a maternity ward emotions must be roll is there a hope that today's announcement will bring us
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a step closer to ending that sort of violence. i don't know if it will necessarily and that kind of violence because that kind of via i mean in terms of the attack on the maternity ward we still don't know who did it no group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the thing about this agreement is that you know in the beginning in the initial days and months after the september election people who voted for either dropped out of any or doctor of the law were very adamant that their cat and candidate not only won but that there would be no agreement there would be no deal and as the months have gone on we've seen that obviously there is a deal and that people essentially at this point they just want it done they're just hoping that there's some kind of a resolution to it and that they can move on they no longer have that adamant faith that their candidate will stand by you know what they promise is that they won't make any deals that they that they will lead the way they want to and now it's just sort of a sense of resignation you know that this is just the way things are and given that
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where it is it leaves the in traffic and pace talks so this will hopefully pave the way for for actually working towards that in travel on peace talks because now we know specifically the doctor of the laws entire mandate will be peace and he's been very pro peace and very adamant about peace even since the election during the election he had said that he would give up his candidacy if there was real developments towards peace at that time. which obviously didn't happen then you know the taleban and the u.s. didn't come to their agreement until february but so hopefully this will end all of those disagreements and these 2 leaders can come together and appoint their specific teams to go and negotiate with the taliban at some point lately in germany are norway. that if he's speaking to us from the afghan capital kabul thank you. thank you. new figures show that brazil now has the 4th largest
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outbreak of the corona virus in the world really 240000 people are infected and more than 15000 have died of covert 9 tain health experts say a lack of testing means the real figures could be much higher and warns that the worst is yet to come. one by one the sick keep arriving at this hospital north of rio de janeiro. it's barely been open for 2 weeks and already 90 percent of its intensive care unit full of people are coming from all over the region as other hospitals become overwhelmed by the numbers of patients needing treatment for covert 19 the local health secretary says they're facing an emergency. fund already by bringing this disease is not kidding around and. whoever thinks it's
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a joke is going to lose their life for brevity. brazil has become the epicenter of the disease in south america what's more experts say fatalities have not yet peaked and the worst is still to come yet despite the surge in deaths and new infections the country's president jab also naru what's lockdown measures imposed by state governors to end so that people can go back to work. or many though are choosing to ignore the president. in this poor neighborhood some pollo leaders are urging people to stay home or potentially be killed by the virus the district is home to nearly 300000 people and has the highest rate of infection in the city the residents are doing all they can to protect themselves but there are obstacles. we have
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a problem with water here there's no water here for $23.00 days the water just arrives at night for all the efforts it seems to some the only option may be to sit it's an out and then hope for the best. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has presented his new unity government to the parliament a power sharing agreement with former rival benny gantz ends more than a year of political deadlock under the deal netanyahu will remain prime minister for 18 months before handing over to guns. dozens of people have been detained at an anti bucktown protest in the polish capital also police used tear gas against the protesters who are demanding that the government move faster to allow businesses to reopen said the gathering was
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a legal under the current restrictions. research is a testing whether specially trained dogs could sniff out the corona virus in humans even before symptoms are evident tames in the u.k. and the u.s. have begun trials to find out where they canines can detect unusual stance coming from paypal infected with the disease success could transform the global response to the global krone virus pandemic. researches in england hope that man's best friend could help sniff out the corona virus some people unknowingly infected with it teams from 2 british universities are racing to find out if having coded 19 changes a person's body. the team has already successfully trained canine noses to detect other diseases like malaria they hope to do the same for the corona virus this could completely revolutionize the way that we are tackling this disease as part of this controlled experiment the dog sniffs out fabric samples worn by coronavirus
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patients and from people who are not carrying it what we have to do 1st of all is collect softballs of the souls of people with them without even knowing team so the way we're going to do the. collecting using very smart people who are very small for a few hours and the other thing we're going to do is get people to where not also the bit strange but we know from previous experience this is a really good word is from people. in the us a group in philadelphia is carrying out similar trials the researches say they need to see strong scientific evidence that this method does work before the virus sniffing dogs can be unleashed in airports and stations. germany's bundesliga became the 1st major european football league to resume play this weekend after a 2 month break due to the coronavirus pandemic the games played in empty stadiums
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were being closely watched by other sporting leagues around the world this doesn't look or sound like your usual going to sneak a game bullis your daughter been playing shocker in front of an empty stadium due to the coronavirus pandemic players who didn't start had to wear masks and keep their distance but what's not unusual is one of each in goal machine erling holland scoring goals in 1900 groped a deadlock in the 26th minute for his 10th eve goal of the season and it was a muted celebration with play as unable to embrace one another. but there was no stopping drop munt just before the break they made it to nil thanks to laugh. and it all started with this nifty pass from union and. the 1st half was one to forget. and so was the 2nd. one picked up exactly where
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they left off the top and added a 3rd goal minutes into the 2nd half. and if that wasn't enough gayle with the brace to seal up for a new victory for the black and yellow was. there now one point behind us by and munich normally 30000. 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 were going to we don't want players kept with tradition and at the match with a celebration in front of an empty yellow was. our let's go to taper on all of this with ed mccambridge from alice for stats good morning ed so everyone's eyes watching germany as they get back on the pitch back in the field what was the verdict well rebecca this was the book is the guys we've never seen it before this was unprecedented worldwide audience tuning in to find out how germany coped with getting football back of course as you said
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a little earlier in the show the 1st of europe's top leagues to bring it back and a lot of people on social media were lamenting of course the lack of fans inside the stadium saying that it detracted from the game somewhat they were also treated the same players warming up with masks on their face a social distancing goal celebrations which was very old you could hear the players and the coaches issuing instructions to each other which was very strange indeed but beneath all of the strangeness of course there was football played as we saw in the report just now dortmund absolutely some shelter from the revered rb leipsic stumble against freiburg so typical football and it was very entertaining for the fans but not everybody stuck to the guidelines is that right that's right it was one incident in a head to string a win over hoffenheim the captain and strike of a dad it beez of each actually was involved in a slightly controversial goal celebration we see in those pictures now where he scored and then moved by his teammates now the d.f.l. said that they didn't want anyone touching you know no hugging off the goals and that sort of thing so this is definitely
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a flagrant breach of those guidelines be interesting to see if there's any actions taken against them. bit of a shame but we're actually going to hear from. now this is what he had to say about the incident. really hijra motions 1st thing i asked our doctor before the match of the gold 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 waited a very long time to be allowed to play again till i get that off get out of this one with me and off. but there's plenty more to come ed right what's going to happen on day 2 well we've got 2 games today cologne are hosting relegation threatened minds and league leaders and reigning champions by and are in town against on burleson today so you know they are games with a lot riding on them as i said relegation and also league title candidates involved so it's going to be very interesting to see if there are any scenes like that piece of each one yes that you know when the emotions get in there's
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a lot steak so it's very hard to stop players hugging and touching and things like that but it's going to be another fantastic day of football so fans but that's a look forward to absolutely and slightly unnatural for the players but at least they have back on the field from data before thanks very much thank you. 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 this training their performances for we're a vision went to vegas from the group abba welcome for us to the broadcast. everybody knows why there couldn't be the usual eurovision final this year. but we hope this show will comfort you in some small way. there was no official voting and no when it was declared the event delved europe shines a light songs from $41.00 national ottis to also sang together in
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