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this is state of the news live from berlin at tara a conversation that has international consequences of course into a few sentences german turkish journalist dennis you chill in absentia to more than 2 years in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda the verdict is likely to further the strained relations between uncorrupt and burn then also coming up. and hijacked barack obama bill gates and iraq masks are among the high profile faintest whose twitter accounts were used by had to post fake tweets asking people for money
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. and asked spain pauses to remember the lives lost to the girl in a fire as we have from brussels and how did your opinion hopes to strengthen unity in the wake of the pending. past hundreds of thousands of india's migrant birth business their jobs in the cities to pave the road a virus now back home they struggle to feed their families. and to walk into the program a course in turkey has sentenced german to his chair in the stennis yourself to. a 9 months in prison for spreading what turkish law defines as terrorist propaganda who lives in germany and was sentenced in absentia denies the charges against him his case has already put a strain on german turkish relations. the trial of dennis you jail has lasted more
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than 10 years and finally the court in east ambuhl has delivered a verdict the german turkish journalist has been found guilty of spreading propaganda on behalf of a terror group you jails lawyer very set up says the case was a miscarriage of justice right from the start. we don't accept this verdict we think it's illegal because the constitutional court had already cleared him. a year ago the turkish constitutional court declared that holding you jel in custody was illegal breaching his personal freedom. we will appeal today's verdict and continue to pursue justice dennis's cases also before the european court of justice right now today's ruling shows that turkish law is not about justice. you jail was forced to leave turkey after 12 months spell in prison from germany he reacted to the ruling.
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this verdict again shows how little the rule of law camps in turkey and in what a terrible state it is the constitutional court didn't just declare my imprisonment illegal it went through all of the articles mentioned in the indictment the commentaries reports and interviews i wrote for event and it declared all of them lawful under the constitution. this isn't the only case against you joe in turkey 2 new counts have been brought against him insulting the turkish president and the state. we asked our correspondent in istanbul give the on just how independent the turkish courts are and what message are the turkish authorities trying to send with us but it. well according to ben is your job himself and his lawyer this whole case has been politically motivated from the very beginning president edwin himself had publicly accused and i quote him here of being an agent terrorist
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so nobody had really expected the judges today to be let's say brave enough to acquit dan is your joel of all the choice charges that were brought against him and in a 1st reaction today then is your child he wrote an article. of reaction in his newspaper he said he thinks he was given a jail sentence today because the judges did not one to embarrass president according to him and he's repeatedly said that he thinks the turkish traditionally is not independent its being instrumental lies for political reasons you know as we mentioned of course he has been sort of and at the same has in absentia but what does this mean for him now as usual that is well well he is in germany right now it's very unlikely you has to go to jail here in turkey again although it's probably very unsafe for him to travel here to turkey but if you
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remember the man has already spend a year in a maximum security jail here in istanbul most of the time in solitary confinement with a very few opportunities to receive a visit is so this has done a damage to his personal freedom now dennis here jill is very keen to emphasize that this is not just about him he is free in germany but there are many many other journalists human rights defenders government critics who are still behind bars here in turkey and that's what he is always emphasizing all right that's all. in istanbul for us on the story thank you. and now to some of the stories making news around the world britain the u.s. and canada are warning that russian spies are attempting to carry out cyber attacks on coronavirus vaccine research is british intelligence services did not say which
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research scientists may have been targeted or if any information has been stolen russia has denied any involvement. and britain leveled even more allegations against moscow on thursday accusing russian activists of seeking to disrupt last year's general election foreign secretary dominic rob say if this was done by in the city acquiring sensitive documents about a planned free trade agreement with the us and taking them on social media. social media platform twitter at was hit by a massive hack that people into making bitcoin donations it affected some of the network's most high profile accounts including those often former u.s. president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft founder bill gates and firms including apple and twitter is investigating the matter and has called it a major security breach it's a is the heck is targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. and we're joined by spin her pick he is the director
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for international cyber security policy at the shift don't know if i'm for to when they're laying eyes to see you so just how will these hackers able able to pull this off and who could have been behind that so as it looks right now it was really an authoritarian it was an incident where criminals convinced employees of twitter to hope to get access to all the other cones. so as it looks like it was criminals who do that to make some sense in south korea. right spent these target some of the most powerful people in the world right. is this really just a bit point scam or could there be more to this. so what we see right now owns those that do targeted in sense of they used their columns to publish this but if everything's correct then the criminals would have her access to mostly almost
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every account on twitter but of course there might be some hidden agenda or something we don't see yet but apparently it was really just sort of a cruise making some money the next day tell us more but right now it's really seems like that ok so if it is just that right side of a career criminals is trying to make some money i mean what is the say about what is security it doesn't sound that it's all that good in there of obviously. yeah i think what it's really is really difficult to defend against insider attacks everyone wrote an entire reality security knows that defending against insiders your own employees will be difficult there are not only technical measures that you have to take but also organizational procedure marrows you have to have always 2 or 3 employees checking these high profile changes but yeah they should have done better and this incident shows that especially as we're looking for 5 months in the run up to the presidential years and actions ok one more spin and very quickly i
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mean what does this say about his credibility can we trust the tweets that we see from prominent user accounts or should we always think well this might not really be who i think tweeting. well that was it wasn't the 1st instance but it will definitely be used instance i would say you can never really trust them but to a large degree most of the time they are correct all right that is spent. on that story for us thank you very much. thank you. in moscow and ended with more than $140.00 arrests demonstrators have gathered to collect signatures against changes to the constitution pasta earlier this month but police moved in quickly and put an end to the gathering. dozens of arrests follow on to government protests in the russian capital where officers in riot gear forcefully rounded up protesters people took to the streets to protest the outcome of
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a recent referendum on constitutional reforms that will lead president putin to govern for another 16 years i'm with you we do not accept the results of the constitutional reforms vote we believe it was all right we are against the crackdown on independent journalists we are for a rotation in government and we want our country to have an opportunity to live well to try to stop. the controversial votes that amended the constitution earlier this month also included populist measures such as an effective ban on gay marriage as part of their campaign protesters also collected signatures against britain's new measures $5000.00 signatures were collected according to moscow city councilor mina. i am not afraid of anything don't believe it don't hope and don't ask but do what you think is necessary if i am arrested so be it if they give me a fine so be it we will handle it somehow. well protesters here remain
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defiant the kremlin's crackdown on dissenting voices seems to become even harsher after putin's recent victory. spain has held a state ceremony to pay tribute to corona virus victims and medical workers but the national struggle is far from over a spade again faces a certain cases and e.u. fund that could prove a lifeline for the country's better the economy is still not certain but today's focus was not on the future it was about remembering the 10s of thousands the nation has lost. it's been a difficult time for us country king philippe and his wife corinne the t.c. presided over the solemn and dignified ceremony for the $28000.00 spanish victims of the coronavirus. or usually are going to show what emotion can restore memo to
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you today is a day that we'll never forget. it will remain in our hearts. because today we honor with the utmost piety you know what you actually mean and the highest honor of our stage millar's if you the thousands of citizens who have lost their lives due to the coronavirus or review if you know of. european commission president goes off on the line was among several top european figures present. one after the other they showed their condolences by laying flowers. yes also included those were most impacted by the pandemic such as relatives of the
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victims. were excellent robbery when we had one when i speak of my brother i'm talking about all of them and remembering all of them. sad that he was 28 years old get ready he was 100 into their hosts a whole year on from other states and moving on last huss from. where you at the end of the half hour ceremony a minute of silence so $20000.00 deaths in spain across europe but it's all stands at over $180000.00 to talk more about the response to scuttle brussels correspondent barbara faisal as she's standing by there for us to see you barbara so how is you getting to grips with the pandemic. slowly because it's the beginning the european union pretty much failed member countries slammed the door shut their borders they turned their backs on their colleagues in the
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neighboring countries hoarded medical equipment and so on and so forth brussels seemed completely at a loss how to sort of pull people back together it was rather symbolic but then throughout the week so the european commission in brussels we see or slough underlined there in spain today sending a signal of solidarity they recognized that they really had to sort of up their game that they really had to sort of become stronger and try to unify the countries in so they are know starting to talk about the big corona recovery fund because the european union has taken a tremendous economic hit mind is 8 percent this year and so $750000000000.00 are supposed to be put on the table the fight begins tomorrow about this about the details particularly and help countries to come out of the economic slump at least so that the catastrophe that to condemn it was will not turn into an economic
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catastrophe. i mean we have been talking a bit about spain and i just wonder how much spain and other hard hit country can expect from the european union. if all works well spain is supposed to be the biggest beneficiary around 80000000000 euros are supposed to flow to spain to help them overcome the economic difficulties the slump and the crisis they are still in and that is really what this sign of solidarity that the european union is trying to send now to the hardest hit countries spain italy greece the southern countries who who really suffered most during the pandemic at least they will get some economic help from brussels to get back onto their feet so there is this special site summit on friday what can we expect from that unity or disport.
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we can expect the mother of all battles because there is so much tied to this other countries one grants they want to be given this money because they said we have already such high a national debt ratios there's no point in piling debt on top of the debt to make things worse so please we need this money give it to us the northern countries the so-called infamous now are frugal for say no way if we give the money we want to control every last cent of it so it is going to be very very difficult no greenman tomorrow maybe on saturday but maybe not even on saturday maybe on sunday maybe a 2nd summit will be needed so there's no telling. no telling indeed all right that's part of a slow in brussels for us thank you barbara. also in other news researches say a record breaking heat wave in the siberian ox it would have been almost impossible without climate change driven by human action sandwiches in the region will more
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than 5 degrees celsius higher than the average between january and june this year. and china's economy is back in the black returning to growth in the 2nd quarter the economy expanded by 3.2 percent year on year higher than expected at predicted it raises hopes of a similar recovery elsewhere in the world. and that the 1300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits this week roughly the same amount as over the previous 2 weeks millions of american workers have lost their jobs since the pandemic hits the national unemployment rate stands at 11.9 percent. european central bank chief christine the god has called on here is a need is to quickly agree on the coronavirus recovery plan after its latest meeting the e.c.b. held back from topping up its vast and david stimulus for the year is a europe's economy is slowly rebounding from deep and.
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now for many people who've suffered serious call the 900 symptoms and survived rehabilitation poses its own challenges apart from the physical ordeal the psychological repercussions can also have long lasting effects on patients. once a 5 a who's only gradually getting back on the road to recovery there's a fair assessment of the cost or oh my god and grief. the lung test at the rehabilitation clinic is still exhausting for durata. the berliner is a covert $900.00. yeah he's a very positive results. i'm glad you know who. here at the clinic name back to back she's making great progress in late may she was admitted to hospital with bronchitis under severe fever and initial coronavirus test was negative but after another test from a lung she was diagnosed with covert 19 lascivious pneumonia an inexperienced
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doctor put her on a respirator. moment this is all as obvious that it feels at 1st like water running into your lungs i was terrified and feared for my life i almost had a heart attack my heart hurt for hours afterwards i screamed and cried i was in real trauma for several days afterwards. she's lived with the diagnosis for 6 weeks now under spent the last 2 here there are strict protective measures in place at the clinic director daniel of it is one of a handful of x. covert 19 patients the others here are recovering from cancer surgery. therapy here consists of physical exercise breathing sessions and methods of relaxation directed and elevate spends a lot of time here on the cross trainer. said the right are going to only been 3 days now that i haven't had to sleep so much and lie down during the day there is this strange extreme tiredness after covert. viewed. tightness on the long
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lasting loss of taste are typical symptoms after covert 19 and. what's surprising for us is that the damage done to the nerves during covert 19 massively limits our patients mobility the psychological strain is also severe they've survived a life threatening disease and they keep thinking about what could have happened it . director danielle of it spends a lot of time thinking about her father he was in hospital with cancer and the coronavirus in the spring she was only allowed to visit when he was dying 2 days after his death she had the 1st symptoms ourself and couldn't attend his funeral something she discusses with her doctors here. more and more former covert 1000 patients are being admitted to rehabilitation in germany health insurance companies have started covering the costs to ease the pressure on
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hospitals durata danielle of it is now immune and feels liberated. just a few days ago i laughed out loud for the 1st time that's when i thought oh god here i am again i can laugh out loud and from the bottom of my heart that wasn't possible for weeks. she plans to get her immunity tested regularly but for now she's looking forward to life after colette 19. 1000000 migrant worker from india cities since the coronavirus walked out in march when all public transport was stopped people had to walk long distances to their home villages many feared being left without food and water if they stayed so how have those with has been fairing since they headed home in their correspondent. traveled to the toilet and just fun to find out. for nearly 2 weeks so need the job of has been working on this water reservoir it
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is 7 hours of hard labor every day in the car just can't punishing fun especially for someone who is doing it for the 1st time. was one of more than 30000 migrants who fled home to die just transcode ali district when india along down in late march her husband had been making good money working 2 jobs in jeopardy had she focused on breezing their 5 children they didn't need a 2nd income then the shutdown hit. her husband lost his work. virus can come here too we aren't afraid of that we just came here because there was no work there until now we were making do with our savings but now there is nothing left so my husband has gone back to. her husband is now back in jeopardy but with just one job at half the money with much less income she now needs to work
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do you need that and the others will only need go 150 rupees a day 23 euros for 2 weeks off work. yet she is lucky only 3 of the workers here are determined migrants job sites like this one are currently the main way for the government to offer paid work to locals however one must have a government issued job card to be employed here locals tell us that the process to get a new job card can take months but the region's added landscape leaves little scope for agriculture and other work is hard to find as well pushing all the 70000 residents to migrate most of these workers have simply not boarded to get a government job card. after all they can make 5 to 10 times more a day in the city but now the government's cash for work scheme sporadically deployed to short don't leave it in dense of projects is all they have. and even
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these jobs are scarse. gummo singh was desperate to get home he spent a week speed to convince to truck drivers to allow him to cram into their vehicles with 70 other men. without food and water to get to could only. for the last decade both campbell and his brother have both as one masons in the southern city of hyderabad to support their family of 9 his brother returned there this week to look for work and to be off their overdue rent. has been borrowing money at high interest rates to make ends meet out of everyone that everything has been shot what are we supposed to do there's never any work here anyway the one government work project i heard of paid only a pittance for 13 days of work what use is that. says his brother has warned him against going back to the. cases are on the raids and another lockdown could be
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looming. but migrants like him nor that for the 2nd time they have to make a choice between facing the wireless and starvation it is time to pack their bags again. in football news portuguese water 29th leaked title on wednesday following a today no win of a sporting lisbon also had needed just a point to clinch the title of victory they moved 8 point scale with just 2 games remaining in the season. inside an empty stadium at the end of attempting seriously destructors by the coronavirus and they make. this is. top stories at this hour a turkish court has sentenced german turkish journalists in this huge 0 to. 9 months in prison for breaking terrorist propaganda was jailed for more than a year without charge in istanbul and was released in sweden. twitter is
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investigating a massive pact that targeted the accounts of high profile figures including barack obama bill gates at. that point to the nation's biggest putting it as a major security breach. a memorial service to honor the victims of the and to make them to work this terrible then at least 28000 people have died of all to try to. then you think join the families of the deceased paying their respects to the day. you can always. go just found out all at google today or from the after school that will give you x. is full of the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for new breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use the day's every app to send us photos and videos of what's happening. that's it for me in the news team to get you can stay
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