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you. are last player. to player law but. this is d.w. news live from berlin i day of demonstrations in the german capital despite the threat of fire is pandemic berliners to say yes to gay pride and no to racism and double protests against discrimination also coming up superstars turn up the volume to help you you raise billions and coronavirus a. car. with a little help from its rockstar friends that the e.u.
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adds some 6 a 1000000000 more euros to help the search for a coronavirus vaccine. and goals goal or on the buddhist leaders final match day with teams fighting for survival and for champions league qualification we have the highlights and analysis of the league's last game. play. a lot. i'm clear richardson welcome to the show to separate protests against 2 forms of intolerance here in berlin around a 1000 demonstrators rally to support the black lives matter movement and draw attention to racism in germany nearby thousands more gathered to highlight discrimination against the l g b t community w's joel dollar i went to both demonstrations. up early in pride march unlike any other smaller but still strident political
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instead of commercial with the official parade canceled due to the coronavirus some activists still sore cause to demonstrate. just because they're at pandemic we don't have a break for transport beyond homophobia and that's reason why we all the nice upright today rights groups say the number of attacks against the queer community in berlin increased in the past year same sex public affection is still sometimes met with violence even and girl and there's many crimes against gay people here and so we are here today to say that we want to live if you look around the world of countries like poland but also russia. or saudi arabia where the rights are non-existent in some areas and that's why it's very very important to stand up even in these times quoted to write. most participants war
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mosques some little else yet police ordered the march to end early citing overcrowding. nearby a different rally with another urgent message over a 1000 gathered under the black lives matter bana to call for an end to every day racism. what connects these 2 demonstrations is a concern that intolerance is continuing even in the middle of a pandemic these communities have come out despite the difficulties of demonstrating under strict hygiene rules to make sure their voices continue to be heard. even after a wave of anti racism demonstrations globally in recent weeks participants say little has changed. and there's another trend is not something that love. is going to be solved by for them it's a problem and i've always been and we've always been fine. informed because he's getting more with us that this one in one or 2 he has something happen again with
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us and i don't know so it's not really helping but this is just that it's a big part of my life this injustice in the world racism discrimination we're constantly confronted with it all. even when you grow up in germany it doesn't matter where you grow up police violence is everywhere racism and injustice are everywhere and i'm here to my voice calling for change. in the through. the mosques of not muffled the demand for equality and justice. well we have some breaking news coming in at least one person has been shot dead and another injured at an anti police brutality protest in the u.s. state of kentucky media reports say a man opened fire into a protest in the city of louisville the protesters had gathered to demonstrate against the police killing of taylor a 26 year old black one there earlier this year we'll bring you more information on
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that story as details come in that people are telling us just a little while meanwhile there is growing alarm in the united states as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has topped 2500000 that's according to johns hopkins university the state of florida has reported a record daily high of nearly 10000 new cases and 4 other states also report record rises infections are surging and a handful of southern and western states that made an aggressive push to lift the lockdowns but the spike has led several state officials to now reverse their reopening plans. and there are concerns here in europe as people who've been cooped up in cities because of the corona virus are now flocking to the beach for summer vacations authorities in germany close roads to popular baltic sea resorts on saturday to stop here rivals as crowds overwhelmed every available centimeter of sand tourism officials fear the beaches could become coated 19 hotspots if tourists
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aren't careful well belgium however is trying to get ahead of the problem authorities there have developed innovative ways to welcome vacationers while keeping them safe. towns along belgium's almost 100 kilometer long north sea coast have turned to technology for crowd control on their beaches city dwellers can consult an app before leaving home to find a resort that's still got space on it sands the crowd barometer uses colors to indicate how crowded different destinations are. dark green means no crowds light green means that sociable yellow means it's busy and orange that it's very busy every coastal zone is included on the app anonymous data is collected from mobile phones to do the counting but that's not all a network of $250.00 smart cameras along the coast will calculate the influx of people each day. it's
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a service that we want to give to vacationers to tell him listen we're doing everything we can to inform you you have tools you can consult before coming here to the coast. let me call it. so in belgium you can go to the beach with a fair degree of certainty that the sea air you're inhaling really will be fresh and not the stale breath have some stranger sunbathing way too close well let's take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic brazil is struggling to cope with outbreaks of more than 10000 cases a day meanwhile mexico's health ministry reported over 4400 new coronavirus cases on saturday and there are new clusters of infections in south korea these come as the country eases social distancing roles. well this weekend of the e.u. has raised over 6000000000 euros more to help the vulnerable countries battle the
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coronavirus pandemic that's the figure raised at a virtual summit organized by the e.u. and the international aid group a global citizen the goal is to make any future vaccines tests and treatments available worldwide. it was a slick digital production and you as much a symbolic show of global solidarity as an initiative to gather funds to fight over $1000.00. the task of this size can only happen if the words unites. 19 threatens not just people settled but out of common humanity. no one is safe until everyone is safe to move to help people in developing countries to cope with the impacts of this pandemic. some day we're covered my dream is behind us. we would like
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huge to be said that we the nations of the world or the peoples of the world stood together. as one day like for more than 2 hours global leaders and influencers delivered their video messages with one clear message at the center of it all acknowledge act together act to end code 19. the event appealed to the world who is brain power and resources to bring an end to this pandemic that means richer countries should have less privileged countries to ensure equal access to tests treatments and above all that scene's the summit also focused on the need to reduce the impact on the most vulnerable by providing food sanitation and maintaining access to education this is the 2nd pledging marathon spearheaded by the european union leaders it has been championing global
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cooperation in the face of this pandemic in contrast to the world's 2 biggest superpowers countries china and the us testing states also relying on star power to dish the initiative with a digital concert featuring coldplay and cheekier out be broadcast around the world . well let's go now to some other stories making news at this hour the opposition leader of malawi lazarus' track where has won the presidential election rewrite with over 58 percent of the vote voters went to the polls earlier this week after the initial may 2019 election it was just credited by the constitutional court due to mass fraud. early results indicate iceland a president could sneak johannes an is heading for a landslide reelection victory the popular incumbent who ran against right wing challenger with money to a friend and young son of corona virus was not seen as
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a major issue as iceland has only been mildly affected. well the african union is reporting progress in 3 way negotiations to build one of the world's largest dams it says over 90 percent of the issues among egypt the opiah and sudan have been resolved they you is trying to broker a deal to end a dispute about the dam which was begun on the blue nile river in ethiopia in 2011 the theo in government said it would start filling the reservoir in a few weeks to produce hydroelectric power so dan hopes to benefit from the dam as well but egypt fears it could face massive water shortages. the project has triggered a decades long dispute ethiopia began construction of africa's largest dam 9 years ago it will cost more than $4000000000.00 euros now the grand ethiopian renaissance dam is almost completed and ethiopia hopes to benefit from huge amounts of cheap
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electricity but egypt insists its water supplies must be protected you have paid for the construction of the dam from the flesh and blood of their own citizens and for egypt it is the only life 90 percent of egypt's water comes from the nile if the renaissance dance reservoir is filled too quickly 30 percent of the country's fertile land could be threatened by a lack of water triggering disaster for egypt's already struggling economy the talks between egypt ethiopia and sudan had dragged on for years but top negotiators reached a breakthrough early saturday morning during a virtual meeting the talks had to be concluded within 3 weeks according to a tweet by ethiopia's water minister and so then the renaissance dance reservoir will not be filled in contrast to the ethiopian government's original plans for egypt that would dramatically raise tensions the 3 countries are relieved to have
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avoided a major escalation for now. well it's a sports now and it was the final match day of the bundesliga season with the title decided the big battle was for 4th place champions league qualification spot was by rusia mention glad backs to lose as they played hard to berlin meanwhile 5th place leverkusen hopes that a glad back slip up might let them sneak ahead in the table. and began the afternoon with arguably their best player on the bench. and so it was up to kevin folland to strike the right tone. that he did just 2 minutes in i'm sure lucky deflection setting him up for a cool finish and his tentacle of the season but it was soon bad news from glaad but where the hosts got off the mark on 70 minutes my. master good work from
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below and below to make it one nil which is have both games stood at half time. it looked like liver couldn't have turned up the heat on blood in the 2nd puff. but fall and was denied a 2nd on 67 minutes when the video assistant referee spotted a photo in the build up. 10 minutes later in blood but the hosts had 4th place so when up by the press of embattled easing the nerves. just go to consolation go through compton see that the bees of it playing perhaps his last game for the club. because the result filtered through to live a cruise in the disappointment was stark but they can comfort themselves with europa league qualification after a decent campaign. meanwhile celebrated their champions league spot as well as anyone could expect in an empty stadium. you're watching t.v.
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