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there's something wrong with. the cleaners social media shadow industry starts tonight on g.w. . this is a deja vue news live from berlin putting a spotlight on the challenges facing the elegy plus communities around the world. today's the international day against homophobia by phobia intersex phobia and trends for a day to celebrate diversity and to condemn discrimination and violence also on the program a grim milestone in brazil the country now has the 4th largest corona virus outbreak
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in the world brazil's health care system is struggling to cope and experts fear the situation will only get worse. defending champions and minicab return to action with a victory over who. will take you to the stadium for some post match. the next vice or welcome to the program. imagine being afraid to hold your loved one's hand in public that's how 6 out of 10 plus people feel in the european union and a new report published friday says there remains a long way to go to a colony we'll hear from a researcher on that report in a moment but 1st here's a look at the situation in an e.u. country where activists say. the government is part of the problem. this is the
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town of storm in northern poland one of those that has declared itself an l g b t free zone since february gays lesbians bisexuals and trans people have been finding life even more threatening than usual take yes sure nick has spent years fighting for l.g. beach he writes. the climate has changed things have gotten worse we're going get affects people's attitude towards people for their stuff but what's worse is the constant accusations against us allegations that we have bad intentions we are out to deliberately destroyed families and sexualize children. that's where the future when the authorities of the church and the government make all these claims day in day out it has an effect. poland is struggling to accommodate its own l g b t people here in stone they've passed
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a resolution in favor of the traditional family and implicitly against gays and lesbians speaking they have punch of the conservative governing party p.i.a.'s or law and justice is one of those in favor of the resolution. we are protecting our 1000 year old traditions here a relationship their promise is a future is a relationship between a man and woman even if other relationships were natural humanity would not die out you know it's going to be. with you know critics say this provokes hate against minorities right wing hooligans feel justified in launching attacks on queer people in the ruling p.i.a.'s party since the l g b t community as the problem not the gangs who take the law into their own hands we hear me here we have to defend ourselves against the l.g.b. people their way. life is the road to perdition it leads to the dismantling of
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basic social structures in which the family plays the most fundamental role i many gays and lesbians are pessimistic about the future. as long as the conservative government holds sway they fear they're going to face even more discrimination in their home country the e.u. member state poland. and for more on the overall situation in europe joined pav lou he's with the e.u. fundamental rights agency and headed abroad survey of. people in the european union thanks for being with us you interviewed nearly 140000 people about their reality your report says there's been little progress over the past 7 years why is that because the survey shows that 70 years after 1st i don't like violence
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discrimination and every day harassment against people remain in the you. don't recall the incidents because anything nothing would happen. because you're afraid of homophobia reaction. and it just which countries in europe are the most friendly or least friendly as regards. plus people. yeah the average masks different realities member states new solution policies are not always enough and the public discourse by public figures going to sions and leaders is important to kind of educate people to be themselves and increase the vision we can but especially in society so we have countries that in the recent years have implemented legal and policy forms as well as probably be based in discussions on the rights and equality offered to be our people and farewell from words like martha and better than others such as poland hungary or guardian or
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money or pressure me through any of. some countries do have legislations in place certainly solution such as belgium and france but they do also face the major challenge that you already mentioned your retirement before europe to do your kate would be great violence and harassment or you look at the past 7 years of course we've had this major pandemic news in the past few months according to the un the coronavirus pandemic has made things even worse for these communities why is that because in the but then we have harsh reality that already troubled them even before people are and other minorities such as access to jobs and health care and or socialism or isolation and domestic violence and these are expected to have become even more acute and more harsh realities for the every day not times. ok milters pavlo with the e.u.
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fundamental rights agency thanks for that and your time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. dozens of people have been detained in an empty lockdown toe test in the polish capital warsaw police used tear gas against the protesters who were demanding that the government move faster to allow businesses to reopen police at the gathering was illegal under the current restrictions. afghan president ashraf ghani and his rival have agreed to share power the move ends months of political crisis after refused to accept johnny's victory in last september's presidential election. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has presented his new unity government to parliament the power sharing agreement with former rival benny gantz ends more than a year of political deadlock under the deal who will be trying to mr for 18 months before handing over to gets. a suicide bomber has killed the governor of new
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good province in somalia the attacker a suspected al shabaab militant rammed the car carrying ahmed was a newer and his 3 bodyguards with a small 3 wheeled vehicle packed with explosives islamic group al shabaab has claimed responsibility. for the. new figures show that brazil now has the 4th largest outbreak of the corona virus in the world nearly 240000 people are infected there and more than 15000 have died of covert 19 but health experts say a lack of testing means the real figures could be much higher. one by one the sick keep arriving at this hospital north of rio de janiero. it's barely been open for 2 weeks and already 90 percent of its intensive care units full of people are coming from all over the region as all the hospitals become overwhelmed by the
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numbers of patients needing treatment to cope at 19 the local health secretary says they're facing an emergency. this disease is not kidding around. whoever thinks it's a joke is going to lose their life but every need. 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 narrow what's lockdown measures imposed by state governors to end so that people can go back to work. many though are choosing to ignore the president. in this poor neighborhood as some paolo leaders are urging people to stay home or potentially be killed by the virus
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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 a problem with water here there's no water here for 23 days the water just arrives at night. for all the efforts it seems to some the only option may be to sit it out and then hope for the best. researchers are testing whether specially trained dogs could sniff out the corona virus in humans even before symptoms are evident teams in the u.k. and u.s. have begun trials to find out whether canines can detect unusual sense coming from people infected with copd 19 success could transform the global response to the
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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 patients and from people who are not carrying it. what you have to do 1st of all is collect souls of this oval some people with them with their team so the way we're going to do it is clear to him using very small people who are very small for a few hours and the other thing we're going to do is get people to know also some
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of the strange but we know from previous experience this is a really good way because when people. in the u.s. 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. have a sports now reigning champions by munich have just taken on in the capital here sports reporter jonathan crane is outside the ground jonathan did it again and we hear that robin that live and dance he might have had something to do with it tell us more. wrap it up and off throughout the score it's from the penalty spot just before half time to get by and i won't go read his 26th goal of the season it's
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a 40 in all competitions it's the 5th season in a row he's managed that the irony of course early on if coronavirus hadn't happened leavened often even never even played because of an injury but he scored tackles fluent in this game they weren't shy about that it was a tight affair and it was only until 10 minutes from the end point at the french defender heading in to make the game safer by and to know how to say it was really strange atmosphere of course without the fans if you go around and listen you could hear the players talking the voices echoing inside the stadium this is usually a stadium that has a lot of passion a lot of noise a smooth rukus kind of stadium i think you know i'm going to miss the home fans but as it was by and came away with the victory 2 goals to nail. tell us a little bit about the police who see this there's basically nobody behind you president or stand there worries though about fans gathering outside the stadium that happened. yeah that was one of the big question marks really not just for this game before all the games taking place this weekend which fans gather but as we saw
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yesterday the fans were generally very very well behaved ready small pockets gathering around the stadium more out of curiosity rather than anything trying to get a glimpse to france had to be talked down from a tree by the police because they wanted to get a better view they were told to clear off i think the biggest problem was when the 2 of the 14 buses to for each site arrived around 50 fans the police said we're kind of outside wanting to see what was going on they were told to keep their distance and otherwise it was all fine and the police spokesperson we spoke to said look you know you have to expect this debate is all new so curious for these fans they were excited and they want to see that she has the right but otherwise everyone has been really well behaved and i think that was something that they were very concerned about but those concerns seem to have been misplaced ok diffused court reporter jonathan crane reporting live from berlin thanks for that. and this is deja vu news live from berlin of course there will be more headlines at the top of the hour in the meantime you can keep up to date with all the latest
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