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this link started to tell me 18. this is deja vu news live from berlin more than 10000 migrants including many children are still sleeping on the streets of the greek island of lesbos that after a fire destroyed the refugee camp police are trying to move them into a new tent city but many are reluctant to go. also on the show guilty of corruption the former head of world athletics is sentenced to 2 years in prison for his part
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in a doping doping scandal his lawyers say the court has made him a scapegoat for much larger problem. i'm brian thomas could have you with us a police operation is now underway on the greek island of lesbos to move thousands of migrants and refugees into a new temporary tent city many of them sleeping on the streets after a fire destroyed the refugee camp authorities say the operation has so far passed off peacefully but many are reluctant to move into the new facility. rows of tents on the greek island. they've been set up for migrants displaced by the fires that gossip the morri account. on thursday week police started moving hundreds into them. over the past few days migrants have chosen to stay on
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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 look that comes to naught at a medical one when we want to free life we've come here to live we are human 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 tense. early on wednesday only about 1200 of the roughly 35000 migrants rendered homeless by the fires have 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 in what we are
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can come to this camp and we encourage them to come there because it is from here that their process will continue that their procedure will continue that tradition is can be found and that people can leave the island because the idea is not that people remain forever on the island of nias was. that while several european states offered to take in migrants from less bus others say they will not they're offering to provide more aid and even more tense instead. well they are being parliament's due to discuss the situation during today's debate or correspondent barbara vai's all standing by for more on that barbara can we expect the e.u. to agree to a common approach to resolving the situation on les mis. there is no wonder no common approach because as we know this is the most poisonous political
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battleground in the european union so even when this debate was scheduled in the european parliament there were some right wing and some populist parties who said we don't want this debate you know where is the problem it was the refuse themselves who are supposed to have put the can set the camp on fire and so we don't want to talk about this but we just of course the bait is taking place there is a majority against that very hard line position but it shows how deep the divisions we've just heard the european commissioner over your hands in the commission for refugees and she said progress on moriah is slow and that is like we just saw the people mistrust the the local police and the people on the ground and they say we don't want to go no scams anymore because we'll be stuck there forever and after 5 years of people being stuck in moria no wonder so solutions here are difficult at the moment the discussion just goes about getting
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more humanitarian aid there and there is no real long term medium term solution in sight it seems we're focusing right now on moria but greece is not the only country with any store or external border that's currently struggling with an influx of march. absolutely not nobody's talking about spain because the southern europe southern mediterranean route has been sort of come back to life towards the end of last year if people mostly from the area in conflict conflict they're like. people from come roun and so on they've been moving ops room a rock and they have now ended up on the cannery islands and it's the same situation and we don't have exact figures but it's several 1000 people that have arrived there already and it's the same situation as in greece the islands are a bottleneck and the greek the greek authorities not the special authority is i'm
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not willing are not capable of moving people on from their same situation again because they say nobody in europe is taking these refugees off our hands there is no redistribution and that is still the point we're stuck it barbara thanks so much for looking into this as the debate continues today in brussels thanks very much. let's get you briefed on some of the other stories making the news today in the u.s. hurricane sally has been downgraded to a category one storm but cause severe damage to parts of florida every rains have given rise to severe flooding in the city of pensacola the storm is expected to weaken as it pushes further inland. once the hardest hit city of the code 19 outbreak in china welcome to its 1st international per passenger flight wednesday the resumption of cross border flights comes after an 8 month shutdown south korean capital of seoul is the 1st city to be reconnected by weekly flights. the
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german biotech specialist by on tech has produced says production rather of a covert 9 team vaccine could start in the 1st half of next year at the capacity of $750000000.00 doses per year for that bio on tech is buying a production facility in the german city of marburg from pharmaceuticals giant no vargas the drug is being developed in collaboration with pfizer. a video released by friends of kremlin critic alexina volley claims the prominent political figure was poisoned in his siberian hotel room and not the airport as was previously thought nova chalk the nerve agent used to poison the well me was the tech did on an empty water bottle at the hotel. well here in germany police of a launched raids against some of their colleagues officers suspected of sharing human also images and private online chat chat groups 29 police officers in the
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german state of north rhine-westphalia have been suspended 11 are now under criminal investigation images share include pictures of illegal symbols in germany 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 a concentration camp police officers from different cities and 34 police departments took part in the check 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
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we're hearing from north rhine-westphalia is very alarming. it is a disgrace 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. the former head of world athletics has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in prison a french court found that. solicited bribes totaling 3000000 euros from russian athletes suspected of doping in the news the money to help them compete in events like the 2012 london olympics. he was one of the most powerful men in sports
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during his tenure at the governing body of track and field the 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 says what danny woodhead you can't 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. put to. dia has long professed innocence in the scandal maintaining over 16 years he turned
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the track and field body into a much admired organization. now d.x. son. was given 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. you also on 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 and 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. well the current virus pandemic and lock downs have been fueling business in the underground economy the illegal trade for endangered
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animals for example like these sea turtles is on the rise but conservationists in indonesia managed to rescue some some of them and get them back to sea. it's a slow walk to freedom these endangered marine tartaros are back on the beach after narrowly escaping the clutches of cultures police in bali rescued 37 of them in a raid on an illegal profiteering in july. but if you want to release the tough times 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 he cannot adapt to the environment we cannot let them go after passing these 2 stages they will be released today i think that you need to look up the. international wildlife charity seaport ching consumption and trading is rife across the region but especially prevalent in
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indonesia. much of the illegal trade is now done online from tough tools and macaques to asian brian bears campaigners say the current pandemic has driven demand. increasing especially because the 1950 wishin that people usually stay at home and they surely 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 adverts on its platforms. person who did the trade of live animals and the. one of the car. and uses it in this type of content since they become. very committed to working with wildlife and one for our teams around the world so we didn't have. anyone involved in trading talk
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to species a potential 5 year prison sentence in indonesia but campaigners say the laws must be enforced until poachers ahd to tear out these reptiles will be heading back into dangerous waters. we have that tennis news now and $200.00 days after rafael dolls last competitive match he returned to the court and roman showed no ill effects of his current virus exile from the game the ball was up against public at a no blue star who was just last week playing in the semifinals of the u.s. open in new york simply cannot keep up with the hard hitting lightning fast ball playing on his favorite surface clay that all defeated his fellow spaniard 6161 to advance to the 2nd round. let's get your mind of our top story at this hour police on the greek isles of us have started transferring margarines phantom urgency tent camp after a fire destroyed their previous thousands of sleeping out on the streets and stuff
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far but have been reluctant to move to the facility. this is live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much from. between their city and self-determination. i don't want anyone to tell me with head scotland no. women are striving to reform. traditional prejudices.

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