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this is deja vu news live from her leg more than 10000 migrants including many children are still sleeping on the streets of the greek island of lesbos after a fire destroyed their refugee camp police are trying to move them into a new tent city but many are reluctant to go look at why also coming up. we'll take a look at new migrant arrivals on the canary islands as thousands continue risking their lives on the. ocean to get to europe. and $29.00 german police officers have been suspended for sharing illegal far right
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images including response that goes in chapters some are now facing criminal investigations. and guilty of corruption the former head of world us sentenced to 2 years in prison following a doping scandal as lawyers say the court has made him a scapegoat for a much larger problem. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us a police operation is underway on the greek island of lesbos to move thousands of migrants and refugees into a new temporary tent city many have been sleeping on the streets after a fire destroyed the refugee camp authorities say the operation is so for passed off peacefully but many migrants are reluctant to move into the new facility. rows of tents on the greek island. they've been set up for migrants displaced by
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the fires that gushed the morea camp. on thursday week police started moving hundreds into them. over the past few days migrants have chosen to stay on the streets in squalid conditions many saying they'd rather remain here than run the risk of being detained for months in a completely new camp. some have even returned to what remains of moria they set the temporary tents and not enough they want long term solutions. going to be needed that comes to look at a medical one we want to free life we've come here to live we are human and we are not animals. they put us in a place where there's no life and it's like a jungle. a human cannot live in such tents. early on wednesday only about 1200 of the roughly 35000 migrants rendered homeless by the fire as have
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moved to the new temporary accommodation the un refugee agency said there is capacity for about another 8000 people and had urged people to move it said it's the only way for went. people have been can come to this camp and we encourage them to come there because it's from here that their process will continue that their procedure will continue that tradition is going to be found and that people can leave the island because the idea is not that people remain forever on the island if this was. that while several european states offer to take in migrant some less both others say they will not they're offering to provide more aid and even more tense instead. while the struggle continues for a european solution for the migrants on lesbos the next refugee drama is now
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unfolding at another european external border the canary islands some 4000 people have arrived by boat since the beginning of the year hundreds are thought to have died while making the treacherous journey on the atlantic ocean many of them are fleeing the deteriorating security situation in the song hell with boats departing from morocco in the territory western sahara they're also departing hundreds of kilometers farther south from where tina and senegal. all rivals to mainland spain fell by half compared to the same period last year landings in the canary islands increased nearly 7 fold. the sea is surprisingly calm this afternoon at least from where to ventura to come out and his friend in for him today remember well the high waves when they arrived on the spanish island they don't already spent 3 days on the sea interrupting the atlanta crossing between africa and the canary islands is considered the most dangerous escape route in the world. suddenly
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we heard air leaking from the reporting at that moment everyone was scared to death i had the feeling that this could really be the end for us and i thought about my little sister who would then be left without me. you know what i thought about friends i would never see again when i was in a state of shock and i couldn't move anymore. the leak was successfully patched and have told reach the spanish coast in the last few weeks alone more than 1000 migrants like him have arrived in the canary islands many mediterranean countries have tightened controls against immigration because of corona and the well trodden route via libya has become dominated by criminal gangs with such developments the dangerous atlanta route has become increasingly attractive new arrivals are placed in largely empty hotels the island's tourism association has sharp criticism for the government's decision. there were currently
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working to promote fuerteventura as a safe and clean island that's in the best of health nobody likes to see hotel full of migrants now that's reality. at the government level island directed to mingle fuentes also receives criticism from other science human rights activists criticize that the migrants are sealed off in hotels and don't have access to asylum procedures they want of conditions similar to those in greece where the migrants lack the most basic necessities twenty's rejects the criticism some of. our southern external border of the european union here in the same way that the e.u. is currently addressing the issues of migration from the near and middle east it should also address the problems arising from migration here on the southern border . and adding to the stress the government sees growing concern over coronavirus infection rates immediately upon arrival people reaching the island are
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tested in one of the last groups half of the tests were positive many newcomers like come around today want to leave the island as soon as possible and move on to the european mainland where exactly they don't know yet the main thing is a place where they can find work and a safe from people taishan back home. let's go straight to for the ventura now indeed abuse young philip shoals young fellow spanish officials are warning that the difficulties on 7 tour that we've just been looking at will only be increasing with the number of new migrant arrivals set to surge what are they expected. yes exactly some people are already warning that that would be conditions like unless parts of their prices continue for too long and too many new arrivals on a daily basis. the kind every items have already been a popular. destination for migrants mainly 1015 years ago and then migration routes
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via the mediterranean and more popular but i think about also a lot of reasons why. the canary islands it's becoming more and more popular again we have the problem that the conditions because friends of country conditions now are of the migrants. sometimes even kilts we have increased border controls through the use of the pandemic and last but not least we have a lot of desperate people in the countries of the region especially in western africa especially in the. region there are more and more conflicts and more and more desperate people willing interest better lives what's the spanish government doing to help. specially. in danger while making this very very difficult. nuts not enough at least that's what a lot of activists say and that's also what the human rights commission of the
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european union said in a state statement recently they criticize that as does not do enough in the search and rescue missions they all to criticize that's housing conditions and especially here on that kind every islands and want to activists that criticize that migrants don't have access to that site and procedures that you can speak about the ports a sense without a proper you go basis and they stress the need for more search and rescue missions briefly if you could local politicians are putting the blame on the e.u. what do they want to see happen. i think 1st of all they want more attention of course all the focus is on the eastern mediterranean the specially on reefs at the moment of course they also want small financial aid from the european union but most of all i think they want what most countries that have external you want us
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ones they want to european solution they don't want to be left alone the problem solved thanks very much for that from where to ventura well here in germany a place of laws raise against some of their colleagues officers suspected of sharing illegal neo nazi images on private allied chat groups 29 police officers in the german state of north rhine-westphalia have been suspended 11 are now under criminal investigation images shared clued those of nazi symbols like swastikas. by this grace and a slap in the face for germany's police forces that's what the interior minister in north rhine-westphalia called the discovery of czech content in which 29 police officers shared right wing extremist material. including for example pictures of hitler of swastikas of imperial war flags but also many more horrible images like the fictional depiction of a refugee in the gas chamber of
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a concentration camp of police officers from different cities and $34.00 police departments took part in the czech groups they were all suspended pending the results of the investigation they could face charges of inciting racial hatred a spokesman for the federal interior ministry said the reports are worrying. what we are hearing from north rhine-westphalia is very alarming. it is of this craze for the police force there but of course it also has an effect on the entire police profession throughout germany. it's not the 1st case of far right extremism spreading within germany's police and military forces in july a former police officer was arrested for threatening politicians across germany referencing a neo nazi cell in his e-mails and in june germany's defense minister disbanded part of the army's elite commando after allegations of far right extremism within its ranks. did abuse political correspondent you know covering the story for us.
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how did all of this come to light the latest charges that we're looking out of investigations rather. police officers found those chaps groups on a mobile phone that had been confiscated for another reason because there were allegation that a police officer had passed on secrets to a journalist so that's how they found those chats of the messages and the groups and some of those actually date back to 2012 and the authorities keep stressing that the conduct of behavior of those 29 people had been in conspicuous for all those years that there was no initial suspicion is there any way needed to know how widespread this kind of activity is among german police and for that matter as we saw in our report german military personnel. there are estimates but the problem is that there is no reliable data are available at the moment that's new that was
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a big study conducted in the 1990 s. that found that between 5 and 20 percent of police offices in germany had an inclination towards frightening extremist views and that was of course alarming but these. this data dates back from the 1990 s. and so many people are now saying we do need a comprehensive new study because they say is alarming but so far the federal interior minister. has resisted calls for such a study for such an investigation and he has been criticized for it because they say of course is not the 1st such case we remember we saw in the report those 2 cases from this year but also we remember what happened after the national socialist underground the so-called national socialist underground committed their series of murders here in germany and the police offices some of them were involved in sort of dragging their feet or actively involved in helping hush up what
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actually happened in light of all of this you know are there any calls right now for a broader investigation or a push to place greater scrutiny on the private communications of police officers as a result of the latest allegations or looking at. the pressure on hamas the office is definitely growing and the interior minister of now from best faith who we saw in the report has announced that he's going to launch an investigation in his state so the pressure on hospital for a federal study. to have a federal study that is growing definitely and the greens the opposition party they're calling for an independent commission of a police officer so that if they detect conspicuous behavior they can contact somebody independent because of course that is part of the problem that sometimes they don't dad talk to their supervisors and then also it's a question of prevention they say that the process for applicants for police
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offices has to be. put under more scrutiny and so it's a question of prevention and not just sanctioning you know thanks so much for that let's get you briefed now on some of the other stories making the news in the u.s. hurricane sally has been downgraded to a category one storm because severe damage to parts of florida heavy rains given rise to severe flooding in the city of pensacola the storm is expected to weaken as it pushes further inland. the u.s. justice department has charged 5 chinese citizens with carrying out computer hacks that targeted more than $100.00 companies and institutions in the u.s. and elsewhere 5 chinese nationals are not in the united states to be charged in person the deputy attorney general accused beijing of allowing the hackers to operate on hindered. u.s. president donald trump says that fact of corona virus vaccine could be ready for distribution within weeks this directly contradicts comments made by one of his top
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health officials democrats have expressed concern that the president's pressuring government regulators and scientists to approve a rushed back scene to help in his reelection campaign. let's take a look now at some of the latest developments in the pandemic new zealand has entered a recession for the 1st time in more than a decade has forced the prime minister using the arden to defend her government's pandemic response ahead of next month's general elections germany has recorded its 2nd highest daily increase in cases since april the country's public health body of the institute reported more than 2000 new cases and a report by unicef and save the children says the pandemic and related lock down measures have pushed more than 150000000 children into poverty report warns of the situation will likely deteriorate further. well a krone virus pandemic and lockdowns have of course plunged much of the world into
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recession but it's feeling business in the underground economy the illegal trade for endangered animals for example like these sea turtles is on the rocks well poachers have exploited a thriving market online driven by people stuck at home conservationists in indian easier though well they recently returned a batch of rescued turtles back to the wild. it's a slow walk to freedom these endangered marine turtles are back on the beach after narrowly escaping the clutches of poachers police in bali rescued 37 of them in a raid on an illegal profiteering in july. but you know. if you want to release that there are 2 stages that we need to ensure the 1st is to make sure that the animals are healthy and the 2nd is to ensure that the animals are ready to be released because for example if they cannot adapt to the environment we cannot let
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them go after passing these through stages they will be released today i think you need to look at the. international wildlife charity seaport chain consumption and trading is rife across the region but especially prevalent in indonesia. much of the illegal trade is now done online from tough tools and mechanics to asian brian bears campaigners say the current pandemic has driven demand. increasing its teaching because the 1960 wishing that people just stay at home and dangerously you know have time to go on lie and some people may want to buy some eco i like products so you can just go to facebook and easy for them for its part facebook says it's cracking down on our votes on its platforms. pressure hit the trade of live animals and. or their pride.
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and will soon remove the temples content. very committed to working with wildlife and one force and around the world so we didn't have. anyone involved in trading chart to species a potential 5 year prison sentence in indonesia but campaigners say the laws must be enforced until poachers adda tad these reptiles will be heading back into dangerous waters. the former head of world will flood ics has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in prison a french court found that mean the oxalis that had bribes totaling 3000000 euros from russian athletes suspected of doping and then use that money to help them compete in the bents like the 2012 london olympics. he was one of the most powerful men in sports during his tenure at the governing body of track and field the
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international association of athletics federations and a french court says he used that power to rake in piles of money. that included a scheme that allowed russian athletes who paid millions in hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping some of those athletes went on to claim medals at the 2012 london olympics medals that should have gone to athletes who didn't cheat. runner crystal dawn a said she was all smiles after the verdict and i think it says what about me one hand you can see the grin on my face with the mask i'm wearing but i'm very happy to have been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the i double f. leaders and i'm also happy for all the other athletes who were told he was out to prove that. dia has long professed innocence in the scandal maintaining over 16 years he turned the track and field body into a much admired organization. now dx son. was given
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a 5 year sentence for illegally funneling out some $15000000.00 during his father's tenure but he spent a lengthy trial comfortably in his home country senegal which has refused extradition requests. and these accusations i can say that based on everything i've read i'm not very reassured that the french justice system has no basis for condemning lamine. to remains free for the time being as his lawyers appeal the verdict a verdict they say made their client a scapegoat that after the judge told the act he had purely and simply violated the rules of the game i mean if you do that we have some football now and parasol forward neymar has been banned for 2 games after hitting marsay defender alvaro gonzales in last sunday's defeat 5 players including neymar received red cards
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after a brawl broke out in stoppage time the brazilian accuses gonzales of using a racist slur against him during the match the spaniard denies the claim the french football authorities say they'll be investigating the incident. last season germany's been this league oh was the 1st major football league to return following the outbreak of the coronavirus the new season kicks off this weekend with 2 new clubs promoted to the big stage including our many a bill of felt bielefeld has the league's smallest budget and it will not be able to host fans for their return to the top reporter max merrill paid the underdogs a visit. hello welcome to a preview to 4 morning in bielefeld home of the bonus league his newest club armenia they've been there before but it's been a while. b. the filled up back in the bundesliga again after cruising to promotion last season
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the entire city is behind the club and the team is gearing up for their 1st game this side used to be known as an elevated club going up and down every other season but they actually haven't been in the bundesliga since 2009 and even spent time in the 3rd division but after a bomb on storming lee dominant display last year when they only lost 2 games back in the big time at the training ground the players seem up for the challenge but can they avoid relegation they'll have to get used to being underdogs again. and yeah i think that's absolutely the go not to go down. if we do our job but i think the quality is better than a lot of people expect. and then i think we will play with season by media have never won any major titles and yet they've still made it into the history books they currently share 'd the record for most promotions to the bundesliga but they really want to avoid is becoming the lone record holder for most relegations and
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it's going to be an uphill task because they have the lowest budget in the division . but what an underdog team needs most is the support of fans due to coronavirus measures bielefeld home stadium won't be full for the forseeable future. will you miss the fans but the feeling on the pitch is like the emotions it's absolutely not the same it will be a tough season for bealefeld on their return to germany's top division they hope the team spirit and chemistry will carry them that may just suffice in order for them to stay on the big stage with the league smallest budget. berlin is renowned across europe for its club's snide life but since the pandemic hit in march the majority of clubs have been forced to close down the sport of measures to contain the darkest one businessman though has come up with a new way to party a warning our next report has flashing images. violent
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nightlife is once again open for business well kind of introducing the tele disco a phone booth disco whose popular rise to fame in recent weeks is perhaps a sign of the times like oh no was it maybe it is or can you say it's great it's the best thing i know. you may come party any time. many of the city's famous clubs are on the verge of bankruptcy. but the inventor of the tele disco is escaping the corona crisis he bought a dozen telephone booths back in 2016 and converted into mini nightclubs. it's a business that makes people happy business this was all you have to do is put into heroes and choose your music. and tourists alike i grateful for the chance to
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experience if that's a slice of bread lends club culture amid the pandemic because to many people as it may be it's magnificent but it's great this little dance to make it. with no reopening date in sight for many of violence clubs for the city's raving urges the telly disco will have to suffice. get your minder now of our top story it is our place on the greek island of love's lesbos have been transferring margarines to an emergency tent camp after a fire destroyed their previous town thousands of them sleeping out on the street some so far but i've been reluctant to move. to the new for so. don't forget you can always get the news on the go to do that dell motor app from google play with my app store because you are says the latest news around the world as well as push notifications from breaking news and if you are part of a news story or having images or information you want to send us you can use that
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thousands of homeless refugees left to themselves without a home. after the fire in the morning i was banned. it's a point for everyone on the island of. what is the e.u. doing is the new interim champ only an extension of the 16 inch mean conditions. focused on europe. next on d w. the conflict zone syracuse. for years
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for lin foreign policy line has been dialogue 1st keep talking no matter what but a russian opposition leader alexina the only recovers in a girl in hospital after an apparent poisoning curlin is under increased pressure my guest this week is germany's deputy foreign minister meals on the cover conflicts. him 16 a double. life her mother succumbing to and. trying to get a coincidence. that terrible previously the 1st was just a messy chemistry level of cognition. where the impossible but.
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to soothe the awfulness of the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery but there are some who can get you the. one person the more you need start september 18th on d w. hello and welcome to focus on europe below thanks for joining us the refugee camp morea in greece has long been a symbol of europe's failed migration policy now it is.

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