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starts in terms of. this is from the man who just 19 is just a little fluid now. brazil's president tells the world he's passed it but he now seems to be a convert to social distancing also on the program a fresh warning from hong kong leader about the controversial new security chief executive. violating the new goals will face serious consequences pro-democracy
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activist. oppression. is just about to apologize for its murderous behavior in africa 100 years ago president seems to think so after years of talks palin says the issue is complicated. welcome to the program brazilian president jab also norah says he's tested positive for the coronavirus and made the announcement on brazilian television he'd been showing symptoms of coffee 19 including a fever but said he felt a what enough to walk around president bills not a house drawn criticism from public health officials or appearing in public without a protective face mask on to say it was not worth the effort to prevent a majority of the country's population ok. trying to uncover 90. joined
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journalist material in the rio de janeiro for a welcome material so the president says he's fine do we have any further details about his condition he said that since yesterday he's suffering some pain general pain in his muscles he has fever and he also has a dry cough so he's not in a really good mood. getting back staying at home now and these days i'm waiting for the results which now resulted positive and so he canceled the meetings for today and possibly also for the next days because he might now stay in care and so now we're seeing pictures of him wearing a face mask he's changed his attitude to vatos he likely to change his stance on the pandemic itself. there's really not sure if you will stand
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if you will change his opinion on the crisis it could happen that he will act from now on as it happened in the u.k. for boris johnson who also change his mind a bit and change his politics and his policy after having having suffered there the covert 900. so it can happen like this but it caused can also happen that board so now we stay at the same point will one economy to come back so it's not sure so far if you will be there will be a new mindset for me ok so brazil at the moment has i think a temporary health minister while this crisis is going on and now a president who is possibly going to take the next few days off to take care of himself. who's going to be running the country. normally it was an
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hour should at least say 14 days at home at his presidential palace in brasilia and then the vice president more hours will take over and this also already happened last year when votes an hour had to go for a surgery to a hospital in sao paolo more than we'll take the lead to maybe possibly travel a bit in brazil and so it is a common situation for brazilians it's typical for them it's not a big issue we will see how what's now really react in the next days he was the one who who put pressure in order to get back to normal life restaurants are open shopping centers are open again so yeah the numbers are still high so it's really not sure how brazil will go into the next days. bursts in rio de janeiro thank you . to hong kong chief executive kerry lam has defended the controversial
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new security law imposed on the chinese territory by beijing last week the slum said the changes could make all call safer by preventing violent protests and she warned people not to break the law so the hunger as our government will be crystal implement this law and i for one those radicals not to attempt to wild this law or crossing the red line because the consequences of breaking this law. critics have warned that this new law will and freedom of speech in the territory and many pro-democracy activists fear an increase suppression of dissent. become reports. oh for years now every one has joined fellow members of his party on the 1st of july to mark hong kong's handover to chinese troops but everything changed last week it isn't uncommon for such a race more peaceful protests to have
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a 100 plus police to search a dozen office i guess this will be the new law you may never see the picture of me then hong kong is on the street ok because we are content not because. we are now happy with the government is because now we have to upgrade to come out very very very soon will follow. the swastika 1st protest seems to new security law was put in place to see offenders go to prison for life for suppression. several parties have now decided to disband some leading activists have fled but avery and his party are not about to follow suit. for political party to bow down now. to safeguard to the rest of hong kong psychologically. i'm also 1st compared to go to prison for a long time we are not going to change what we have been doing for years but
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depends on the. suppression we are going to face in the future there will be short term mortification and transformation off activists i mean hong kong there's no doubt a strong sense of fear also lose hope a supporter of self-censorship has been the most common reaction just as many pro-democracy restaurants have quickly taken down declarations for political messages leaving them to animals as a way of silent protest. beijing in sr a lot of facts only a minority of lawbreakers critics say political activism is under threat and that's just the 1st step in the now works for an end based in hong kong for decades. it has been f a k for labor rights across asia hochul has been a popular hub for the also soft local and international n.g.o.s but a new law means many are now we considering the options there's a lot of m.b.a. quitting we don't know what do you mean by somehow may be called where foreign
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forces because we have stuff from overseas under this law we why then sure like how it will impact even the safety of individual staff or why this to frighten us to if we continue to receive for funding we have to somehow p. pair their worst scenario down we may also consider to move to. other countries. beijing has played down the last impact saying in nearly close to strengthen the management of n.g.o.s and our organizations in hong kong. even though is clear how the security will be implemented activists and efficacious here will have to be where they face a rocky road where. i. can take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s.
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secretary of state's my comparative says these countries considering having china be smart including the social media tick tock you cited national security concerns as a reason in an interview with fox news to 30000000 users in the u.s. . after johnny depp has testified of course he'd london where he sued me of the sun newspaper for libel he deny claims and he's ex-wife lose also had caused a 2018 the article in the sun supported by quotes from. a wife beater. german aid organization. says the coronavirus pandemic could a 1000000000 people around the world into hunger. the charity has launched a campaign to support some of the world's poorest people saying it needs to raise 100000000 euros to help those situation has become worse because of the damage. australia a 2nd city melbourne has ordered has been ordered back into lockdown for 6 weeks
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after saying a single day increase of almost 200 new cases they move comes as the border between the states of victoria neighboring that new south wales is still for the 1st time since the spanish flu pandemic more than a century ago. remember that we have. a scene of distress and frustration a mother trying to reach our son confined inside a tower block after a resurgence of the corona virus was that it was the melbourne housing complex was originally at the center of the latest outbreak but now alarming spikes in the wider community mean lock down for the whole of the victoria state capital. and that is war of the public health 3 have advised me to re-impose stage 3. restrictions for a period of 6 weeks there is simply no alternative other than there wasn't and
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there wasn't of crisis. and potentially more many many people in hospital and the inevitable tragedy that will come from that. the move in melbourne follows other measures to contain the spread of the virus the neighboring state of new south wales is closing its borders to victoria anyone found breaking the rules could face a hefty fine or even jail time the border here hasn't been closed since the spanish flu pandemic a century ago. so this is something entirely different this is going to affect the travel of more stuff because i have stuff inclined spotted living and working on both sides of the border and there's no obviously clarity on the border it's going to work. so it's like really it's a matter of funding and. it's all going to pan out. until now been slated to
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outbreak australia had recorded far fewer cases than many other countries in the coronavirus pandemic the countries all thora hope swift and firm measures can keep it that way. since george floyd was killed in police custody in the united states a resurgence of the black lives matter of movement the behavior of former colonial powers in the territories they once occupied has come under renewed scrutiny as a germany was one of those powers in the 20th century it oversaw the killing of tens of thousands of ethnic people in namibia in south west africa talks about how germany can atone for its actions have been going on for years and last month namibia's president suggested there might soon be out apology but berlin says the issue is complicated. german southwest africa was the one colony where germans really settled but in doing so they forced the indigents for control of scarce resources in this mostly arid territory the germans killed more than 80000 herrero
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and namor people in fact it's estimated 75 percent of the herero were wiped out and victims skulls taken away in a failed search for proof that white europeans was a period. in the image and we say we are free to put the years might have passed but the heroes and nam has still won justice i made lengthy talks between the german and namibian government. apology we got permission any politician these are our main points 3 points we are demanding from the german government because we cannot do recalls really if somebody did apologise or think is that the. negotiations between the 2 governments. but the sudanese of the enormous indian it was excluded from these. negotiations this makes things difficult germany has ruled out paying compensation
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offering to fund development projects instead. there's a great deal of germany's past that's well and publicly documented here and that includes the horrors of it and that in history this for example is the holocaust memorial but that's the history that germany acknowledges but this country has been slow and even reluctant at times to own up to some of its actions as a colonial power and that's another dark era to uncover. yet some streets in germany are still named after its colonialists and it appears that's not a bother to everyone. on the bus want to g.g. not have a problem with our beautiful street names. i campaign groups have succeeded in getting this subway station renamed its outgoing name is from a derogatory word used to describe black people all part of
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a quest to get germany to look inward and ask tough questions about its attitude today towards some elements of its past. that's a chill up today so. here at the top of the hour in between of course there's always the website that's t w dot com and you can follow us on twitter and instagram. you are going to. go beyond. the stories that matter to. us. whatever it takes. to running. a little. detail you made for mines.
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