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tv   Heute Xpress  Deutsche Welle  September 25, 2020 1:00pm-1:04pm CEST

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this is g.w. news live from berlin a global day of climate action gets underway around the world from the arctic to australia the fridays for future movement returns for the 1st time since the start of the pandemic. also coming up francis says the number of people hospitalized with coke is 19 is back up to levels last seen in june now major french cities are getting ready to bring back restrictions to stop a 2nd wave. i'm
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sumi so much going to thank you for joining us and we will let's start with some breaking news that's just coming in to us of police in paris are saying that at least 4 people have been wounded in a knife attack now at this incident occurred near the former offices of the satirical magazine charlie abdo that was the site where islam because islam make extremists killed 12 people in 2015 now let's get the latest on the story now we'll go straight to paris our correspondent lisa lewis is standing by for us hi lisa what more can you tell us about what is happening in paris right now. well it's obviously a very fluid situation a breaking news situation the latest been hearing is that one set spec has been arrested by police the area is cordoned off and the latest number of casual of people who were injured who are injured who are now in hospital severely injured
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but their life is not in danger that 2 people who were injured during this attack it happened indeed in the street of the a former news room door and it's not really clear yet if this is a terror attack at the police is looking into it and they have obviously activated their special anti terrorist cell and the prime minister has gone back to his office to talk about this and look into situation look into just to the to look into the situation right now lisa we mentioned that in 2015 islamic extremists killed 12 people at the charlie hebdo offices and just recently the magazine we published these controversial mohammed cartoons to tell us more about that well absolutely you know the court case against the supposed to help us of the attackers and 2015 is still ongoing and started a few years few weeks back and it will go on for another few weeks and for that the magazine repopulates published the same cartoons and after that actually they said
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that they received all sorts of death threats from around the world against the magazine but also against other media here in france and even against the french president and that's why recently there was a common article published by about 100 newspapers speaking out in favor of press freedom and speaking out against this threat but obviously it does remind us of the fact that these people who are now working from a secret location and being watched and guarded 247 by police are still under in danger really. lisa as we said we still don't know exactly what is happening but if this does turn out to be a terror attack put this into perspective for us because it would be the latest in a series of attacks we've seen in the french capital in recent years well absolutely that been over 200 people that were killed during several attacks it all started with the shah.

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