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this is news live from berlin a pair of conviction that has international consequences a course in turkey german turkish journalist dennis you tell 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 bennett also i mean up. hundreds of thousands of india's migrant worker has left their jobs in the cities to flee the coronavirus now back home they struggle to feed their families.
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collapse getting over coffee we need to survive and yet how she's coping with the physical and psychological impacts on her road to recovery. and to welcome to the program a course in turkey has sentenced german turkish journalist dennis you chill in absentia to take is and 9 months in prison for spreading what turkish law defines as terrorist propaganda. appeal the ruling germany's foreign minister has also responded saying the verdict of nothing to build trust in turkey's rule of law the long running case has already put a strain on german turkish nations. the trial of dennis you jail has lasted more than 10 years and finally the court in east ambuhl has delivered
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a verdict the german turkish journalist has been found guilty of spreading propaganda on behalf of a terror group you jails lawyer veselov 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 so we will appeal today's verdict and continue to pursue justice dennis's case is also before the european court of justice right now today's ruling shows that turkish law is not about justice. you jel was forced to leave turkey after 12 months spell in prison from germany he reacted to the ruling. this verdict again shows how little the rule of law
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counts 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 divot 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 gary 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 your joel 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 jo of all the trial charges that were brought against him and in a 1st reaction today then is your child who wrote an article a reaction in his own use paper he said he thinks he was given a jail sentence today because the judges did not one to embarrass president edwin 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 at the centers 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 he 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 remember the man has already spend a year in
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a maximum security jail here in istanbul most of the time in solitary confinement with a very few opportunities to receive a visit to his so this certainly has done a damage to his personal freedom now dennis your show 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 stumble for us on the story thank you. and now to some other stories making news around the world britain the u.s. and canada a warning that russian spies or attempting to carry out cyber attacks on corona virus vaccine research is written intelligence services did not say which research scientists may have been told that it all if any information has been stolen russian or russia has denied any involvement. and britain. has levelled
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even more allegations against moscow on thursday accusing russian axes of trying to disrupt last year's general elections foreign secretary dominic robb said this was done by illicit the acquiring sensitive documents about a planned free trade agreement with the us and leaking them on social media russia says it will respond to what it calls the u.k. store and bring the actions humanoids on in our must barack obama and joe biden are among several high profile twitter accounts hacked by scam is twitter is investigating the breach of the fake tweet supposedly sent from the pals to do people into making bitcoin donations. an important agreement on how people's online data is being shared between europe and the u.s. has been ruled illegal by the european court of justice privacy activists at all geared that the accord was unlawful because it gives the u.s. government access to european citizens private data without their consent.
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as india approaches 1000000 cases the northern state of bihar has been placed and the and new 15 day lockdown ever since march when the country went into its 1st lockdown millions of migrant workers have fled their cities to return to their home villages many on foot they feared being left without food and water if they stayed so how have those workers been faring since they headed home to india correspondent . traveled to. and i've just done to find out thank you. for nearly 2 weeks of husband working on this water reservoir it is 7 hours of hard labor every day just can't punishing fun especially for someone who was doing it for the 1st time. was one of more than 30000 migrants who fled home. district when india along down in late march. her husband had been making good
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money working 2 jobs in jeopardy she focused on reason 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. 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 too soon either and the others will only need to 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
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must have a government issued job card to be employed here local tell us that the process to get a new job card can take months but the regions i did landscape leaves little scope for agricultural and other work is hard to find as well pushing over 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 term labor intensive projects is all they have. and even 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.
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for the last decade both carmel and his brother have both as one masons in the southern city of hydro but. to support their family of 9. his brother returned there this week to look for work and to be off their overdue rent. damo has been borrowing money at high interest rates to make ends meet come out of their london 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. this is are on the rise and another lockdown could be looming. but migrants like him nor that for the 2nd time they have to make a choice between facing the wireless and starvation. it to starting to pack their bags again. for many people who've suffered serious call that night in symptoms and
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survived rehabilitation poses its own challenges apart from the physical ordeal the psychological repercussions can also have long lasting effects on patients. one survivor who's only gradually getting back on the road to recovery there's a sense of the faster oh i've got 3. the lung test at the rehabilitation clinic is still exhausting for director neill of each. 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 pneumonia and inexperienced doctor put her on a respirator. moment as
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a vastly longer life 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 and has spent the last 2 here there are strict protective measures in place at the clinic director daniela which 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. called beaut. tightness on the long lasting loss of taste are typical symptoms after covert 19 and. not surprising for
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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 hospitals durata danielle of it is now immune and feels liberated. just
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a few days ago i laughed out loud for the 1st time that's when i told 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. in football news water celebrated their 29th league title on wednesday following a 2 nil wind of a sporting lisbon had just needed points to clinch the title and victory meant they were 8 points clear with just 2 games remaining in the season the club's latest title was celebrated inside an empty stadium at the end of the campaign seriously disrupted by the coronavirus and everything. and finally in the u.s. at least in the state of florida at the able to round up of last moving fugitive. this runaway kangaroo was spotted hopping through the city of fort lauderdale early
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on thursday it's unclear where he came from but deputies were able to call it a critter and get him into a police cruiser but the runaway group would be doing any hard time turned it over to wildlife officials. that's it for the of the teed up today if you can visit our website in the meantime but at the table in 45 minutes joined him. along with. video audio. anytime anywhere. w. me john.

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