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you're going to be just due to the trace of what you want to dream. black gold oil reserves starts december 4th. a warm welcome to focus on europe. glad you could join us today. recent attacks in european cities like boston, paris, nice and yanna, show that islamist terrorism is still a threat. the attacks reveal to europeans how vulnerable they are, and how difficult it is to protect the population from acts of terror. a special forces in action during the attack,
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a nice 3 people are stabbed to death in paris. the teach us time in a petty is decapitated for showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed in his classroom. president mccall wants to take vehement action against islamists and to forge a european coalition against terror. france has been particularly hard hit exactly . 5 years ago on nov 13th, 130 people were killed in islamists attacks. the terrorists stormed the better cloth theatre in paris, and shot dead dozens of young people at a concert. france never really recovered from the shock. these 2 men will forever be united through the attack for many in france, and it's particularly remarkable that they together are standing up now against hatred and for reconciliation. it inflicted a national trauma on france, the attack on the buttocks 90 concert goers. most of them young people were
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brutally killed in the heart of paris by a commando of islamist terrorists. one of the gunmen was 28 year old who was shot by police before blowing himself up at the scene. 5 years later, we drive in belgium to meet some nice father dina . anymore. still doesn't know what drove his son to take part in the attack. but he was atrocious. so many deaths of innocent people. i was sad. i thought, what ingratitude we gave you everything. you did this to us, to your family in the place where you lived to this day he can't understand why his son became a terrorist. a former law student,
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some he was working as a bus driver when he became radicalized in a matter of months. 2 says he can barely look at photos, memories are just too painful. when his son mysteriously went off to syria in 2013, dean followed and tried to get him to come home. and he was like a zombie for 5 days there, but we barely exchanged a few sentences. i asked him questions, but he wouldn't talk in the end, there was nothing he could do but go home. on nov 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks took place in paris, claiming the lives of 130 people. 28 year old lawyer last eileen was among the victims. she was at a concert at about a clone with friends, a young woman with a zest for life. she sorely missed by her father. she loved to play roller
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derby even to do all of the same. you know, i mean, she is with her entire team despite his grief and anger agreed to talk with me more who contacted him a year and a half ago. you know, he wanted to meet me because he was trying to meet his son's victims' families. you know, to explain himself and ask for their forgiveness. and curiously enough, so i could help him understand what has happened to him. i want to share in his sorrow and explain to him that we're not at all a family of terrorists. not a terrorist. while i also feel like a victim,
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and even so, i mean as a victim of a sort. as deena, i mean, more suggested they write a book together, one in which the fathers tell their stories in a new vest. or we still have words highlights the things they have in common. i'm very interested in the threats against terrorism and the terrorist accomplices . i don't want innocent people to be attacked in the name of this fight. seems counterproductive to me. that issue. but you can even talk with the parents of a terrorist now, 5 years after the attack, joselyn and his family are trying to resume their normal lives in paris. by contrast, as dean anymore spends a lot of time alone in his apartment. and during our interview, he talked more about his experiences as a film producer, singer and businessman in various countries, and less about his son,
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and what drove him to commit an act of terror. last, father celine tells us why he thinks that is the understand everything about his son as far as his son's education is concerned, clean, he made mistakes. they were meeting to face. who can honestly say they'd have done any better the wounds will likely never fully heal and move on. it's important to send out a sign of reconciliation. especially because hatred has returned to france since the latest have tax took place. 22 year old is all too familiar with it. many of
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his friends are muslims and they feel i'm fairly targeted by the media, the state society in general, even by their own teachers. it's a situation that needs some into radicalization. they fall for misinformation, especially on social media. scotty wants to protect other young people and we met him in the notorious. well knew of the tom if they want to find something out, they turn to the cell phones. like most young people in this suburb of paris. are you in social media or in google? i prefer the social networks because the claimants are more interesting to see. but there's lots of hate speech on social media too. many young people believe the conspiracy theory isn't islam. it's propaganda disseminated there.
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for instance, the juice room, the old french president, my car is a satanist, fake news. yet many young people in france's poor suburbs believe it. and that's why if i have a lot of cousins so i can always see what you saw. there was an incredible amount of fake news on social networks that was presented in a balanced way to make it believable. it's often targeted at young people because there are these networks in the quite naive when it is the only thing they've when asked why they don't turn to newspapers or t.v. for libel information, scotty and, well, both say the french media often provokes antipathy towards muslims. although they're not muslims themselves, nor no sense of the battle is good to inform people another concern over nonstop.
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they will be used different words, but they're letting muslims know they're not welcome. i mean, if you close, the borders would be better off. since you're there, take us in the ku klux klan small. well know what on earth would associate the ku klux klan with christianity? so it's not ok to associate muslims with these crazies who use terrorism to enforce their ideas. the young people in france's years feel stigmatized. and now that is the mess tara has resurfaced in europe. fake news is booming, teaches in troubled districts like this one, find their pupils are no longer willing to listen to facts in their eyes. teachers are part of the establishment and spreading lies that it's worrying that students begin to question our knowledge. it happens
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regularly that they call into doubt everything we're trying to teach them to start. nothing teachers are going about things the wrong way and know too little about social media, which is a big problem. so he's trying to do something about it. along with the journalists association, he's founded the you tube channel, or liar, to fight fake news. at all, only sort of. there's a remake of the videos. we're going to be told where we decipher true from false. and scotty, the dynamic duo, the order of the most important thing, is to teach young people to always look at where something comes from, who put it online. so their most recent video warns of us about islamist propaganda video is metol his message. be wary when people try to pull at your heartstrings media players
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indoctrinate young people who've had a difficult time at home and who want to bring so well emotionally. and so we give them tips of developing a critical attitude when it comes to ideas that say idealistic, yet in reality are completely crazy. but the more you fall for it, the more who you are with help from signed meton also exposes fake news about the corona pandemic. we have some questions. we found a really crazy info graphic on masks. and then we'd like some clarification on things we didn't understand. a lot of people will think the channel is pretty cool . that was good. what they do. you really need to pay attention to stuff. the tollway still in its infancy, but thousands of young people are already watching videos. and that makes them proud. this was
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a young person who's seen one of our videos reflects a bit more when watching a dubious video than we've already won. you've probably often heard this phrase over the last month. well over $1000.00, pandemic has brought a lot of devastation, but it's good for the environment. well, it has definitely brought some relief to wales. fewer ships are currently in the waters and that means less noise. it's actually never been this quiet. in 150 years, our reporter went whale watching near the norwegian, the 14 islands, and there he witnessed how the giants of the sea are gradually taking back their territory. and refurbish trawler heads out to sea, near the norwegian port of caring. 50 expectant tourists on a whale watching expedition. but sightings, have become less frequent in recent years. growing noise levels are driving the
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giant marine mammals away heard of a little differently under water from pier to inland. and the species are highly sensitive to noise. considerable distances. so we have to be very careful not to generate too much disturbance. we've even installed an ultra quiet propeller the seabed drops sharply near the lu foton islands, making the waters here and ideal habitat for whales, but is all over the globe. the volume of maritime traffic has risen steadily in recent years, from trawlers to cruise liners and cargo ships and even submarines. their noise has an irritating effect on whales, similar to tinnitus and humans, and it impacts their behavior dramatically. but now that traffic
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has dropped off tremendously due to the corona virus pandemic. there is a whale swimming around a mile away from here. and we should be able to hear it in a minute. the ship's underwater microphones pick up the characteristic clicks, which the whales used to locate food. they've started. i've started and there she blows a sperm whale, maybe 15 meters in length. in their excitement, the tourists have trouble social distancing. all here too, in the extreme north of europe, the pandemic has led to
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a big drop in cruise. liner traffic, most of the ships remain mord for maritime researchers. those come waters mean a welcome opportunity to deepen their understanding of the world's oceans. scientist garryowen, son, has been studying light and noise pollution in the sea. for years. the positive influence of the lockdown can be observed right here in long time short. they were getting court recently spotted 2 or 3 pilot whales. and while that's not enough for an empirical analysis, one thing's for sure. i've never seen pilot whales so close to the city center. they're not the researchers use this device to assess the water quality off the coast of 20 times. this is a standard procedure, but the team also has other more ambitious things in mind. they want to find out what impact this unaccustomed silence is having on the
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underwater world. and on the behavior of everything, from the tiniest organisms to huge whales, how they hunt and find food, and how they communicate now undisturbed by human made noise. in the mix. wrong salutes on their hold on 3 or more us researchers. this is a unique opportunity. their shipping traffic might be gradually increasing again. but for months there was practically no human activity on the water. the researchers want to show how good this break is banned for life under water. back in the extreme, north of norway, nature has a treat in store for the tourists, a school of pilot whales. they are known to pop up now and again in these arctic waters. but it's rare to see this many so close. it's certain to appreciate the true value of these creatures. i notice that every day
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see you soon, rich in life, and it soon beautiful to come right here. i'm sure the wheels to people we do have to be mindful of protecting. make sure you know and that rich array of life is enjoying the relative peace here, at least for the time being. at the end of the 2nd world war, nazi germany lay in ruins. whole cities completely destroyed millions of people dead. they died in a war that raged worldwide instigated by adults, hitler and his regime after the warmth of the victorious powers, one of the perpetrators to face justice. and so they brought them before the 1st international military tribunal. it's been 75 years since the nuremberg trials were held and they had a special significance for those who survived the concentration camps like auschwitz, manami speed,
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you'll have. my name is peter johann contador. in 1904, the german army occupied transylvania. a short time later, we were all deported to auschwitz, with my entire that's it, was murdered there. and nicholas frog. so france, front it deputy in occupied poland, governor, general, poland, and politically responsible for every murder carried out there from 139-2145. if my name is renata then born toma, my father was assigned to be the defense counsel for us. little boys and bag hitless, chief ideologist alfred horse and back and hands. frank were among the leading nazis to go on trial in norm back on november 20th, 1945, joining him and doing in the dark. many of the other big names in the nazi party,
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had it ready disappeared by that point or like adults, hitler had committed suicide. nuremberg was the site of the annual party rallies, huge propaganda event designed to showcase the nazis power. those who had once enjoyed the adulation of the crowds, here at the rally grounds were now called to account for their actions a historical 1st. never before had the leaders of a state been forced to face trial for that actions. the germans were to be shown how a democracy works. alfred toma a retired judge was obliged by the americans to defend alfred always in bag. he was chosen because there weren't enough lawyers deemed sufficiently on the tainted cannot. tahan sometimes accompanied her father to the courtroom. it was a tense and oppressive atmosphere as far as i was concerned and filled with the
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sense of disgrace oddny atmosphere, that the charges leveled against the main war. criminals were conspiring against world peace planning and waging. a war of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. i can assure you that none of the defendants entered a guilty plea right up to the last, the main war, criminals to knowledge there was any systematic attempt to annihilate the jews. it was through the trial that many germans learned the full extent of the nazis atrocities. nicholas franks, father, rice minister, hum's frank was dumped the butcher of poland brewer's nuisance of indignation about his atrocities within the family. you know, no one felt my father deserved to be on trial in nuremberg,
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but i had more the sense that he was rightly charged. on october the 1st $946.00 came the verdict, 3 were acquitted. 3 sentenced to life forgot shorter prison sentences, and 12 was sentenced to death. the death penalties were carried out in the courts for much. i'm lazy, i'm soon after the virtex paid to god. just 14 years old at the time, followed to the trial against the men who had deported him, his mother and sister to the death camp at auschwitz. he was the only one who survived. you know, i was at the cinema. that's where they showed it. they didn't show the hanging. you just saw them lying in coffins with a black and white striped rope around their necks. and the thought came to me. it's a necktie that they all deserve to be removed. i just don't think we germans would
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have convicted those criminals at that time or later for that matter, the allies did it for us. i don't know how the trials would have gone if they had been carried out in a german court. then i am dorchin get bitched. the charges brought against the main war criminals that the norm back trials set a precedence that laid the groundwork for the international criminal court in the hague. the norm back trials are considered the birth of the international criminal law is where you see you has the only thing that's positive about my father criminal life. that it was partly because of him. charges were invented products of the people like him to be put in the dog. to make last trunk carries a photo of his executed father. he says, every time he feels even the slightest bit sorry for himself,
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he remembers the pictures from auschwitz and then he feels the verdict reached at the nuremberg trials was the right one. and there's justice still means a lot to a new class, frank, even after 75 years since the beginning of the called 910. to make many people have been investing more time in their hobbies, they were less me is from switzerland. and her passion is a yellowing. but she and her choir can no longer rehearse as freely as they used. so the risk of spreading the virus is just too high. so it's our land recently introduced stricter measures to curb the spread of the corona virus. and that has also affected life in a vague village of kunda in the swiss alps. the secluded mountain village of condor stick in the swiss can't know beyond
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its east in berkeley from the house, a sign to me, you know, doing feels like home. it's tradition. it's about feeling, it's nice and say, this is for me. but now i'm in the pandemic. the popular pastime is deemed dangerous. meat runs a local hotel with a restaurant. and yodel, it means the world to her. you seem to start because, you know, you have a strong social group. i think we put a lot of dedication and passion into our singing. but now the pandemic has caught up with the kansan of sheets, as you can tell from the headline streets and all in the kanto, located some 150 kilometers from conditions. recently made international news after a major cove in $1000.00 operate for a yodel concert authorities say the event is partly to blame for the region's infection spike. in mid october,
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the local hospital issued a stark warning. after the tense, in the fisa, seeing the biggest surge in cool, the 19 infections in all of europe, of the, the number of new infections this dramatic, please wear masks and do not tell parties. news quickly spread around the country, including to the village of kinder, stick things have not been the same sense among us on the one you yodel, at a special occasion. people are shocked. how can they get together and saying it's a mix of respect and fear. thank you, niner friends have cancelled all your concerts for now all they can do is reminisce about the day and who knows, you may soon have a vaccine and then we can surely go back to your living and that's all we have time for on today's show. fire for now and take it
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love interaction, but sometimes you don't have it. if you're a bottle provided, that's great. they're going to replace people at manufacturing. they're going to replace doctors and lawyers. they're going to replace people in jobs, you wouldn't think they can. if all the work is being done by machines, what it was true that they try and keep getting better and better education and taking more and more advanced jobs. where do they end up doing other things, making art, having social interactions with each other? are we going to have enough humanity to make it possible for everyone or some people going to say, i want everything and the rest you guys have to be for it die. it allows individuals to discover their humanity. they have to learn a new meaning for life and do things to do. that's a social revolution that hopefully we can move through slowly.
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he had a bit of that this is the, they'll be news live from berlin, new choros virus infections continue to increase to 5 cut on lockdown. just a german is one of several european countries reporting record numbers of new cases, even as restrictions. and to slow the spread of the virus also on the program. health workers in turkey, struggle to track and trace new infections in istanbul, as the opposition accuses the government of conceiving the true scale of the outbreak. hong kong's opposition ball makers make good on their threats to resign. own mouth suffered for effect. colleagues were expelled from parliament. a china condemns what it says is a blatant challenge to it so far. so i'm
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full. gail, welcome to the program. germany's public health institute is warning that covered 19 infections could spread uncontrollably in some parts of the country. case numbers are still increasing despite a partial national lockdown of the robert carr institute says the infection is likely to start flattening soon. germany is in its 2nd week of a 4 week partial shutdown, but the covert 19 situation remained serious. more than 20000, new infections have been recorded in a single day. the head of the country's disease control agency, the robot. kok institute warned of more deaths to come from a small store and you need to accept that the situation is going to get worse. over the coming weeks, some clinics could reach the limits of their capacity and it is possible that patients will not be able to receive optimum care. in the last 2 weeks alone,
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intensive care occupancy has more than doubled. the german doctors say they are watching the number of free beds diminish quickly. authorities have urged people to remain vigilant. but as it was the case with the spanish flu, we now also have to expect the 2nd wave to be more severe. absent it happens during a less fortunate time of year the winter months, which means we will have to deal with this for the whole season. but there are tentative signs that the increase in corona virus infections is slowing. thanks in part to the precautionary measures. because it's flattening, we don't know if that is a stable development. we will have to wait and see but it shows that we are not helpless against this virus. for the next couple of days will be crucial for authorities to decide whether it might be necessary to extend the measures beyond november. well, turkey is also seeing
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a big increase in the number of new infections. it's now banned smoking in public places as a coronavirus measure, but despite pressure to follow the rules, lots of people have been letting their guard down and opposition politicians are accusing the government of hiding the truth. scale of the operation correspondent reports from the city of 16000000 in which the corona virus is spreading. and one of the teams that are fighting to stop it was the last image on as a dentist, at least she was until the pandemic started it. she's been a contact traces since march 1 of around 35000 in turkey. gonna surely a book seen from here the size of the city kelly scary. and i sometimes wonder where this pandemic is headed. but as a doctor, i have
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a responsibility. i try to think positively and knowing that i help people is what motivates me and keeps me going there on the tracing team manages around 10 house calls a day. they work in shifts almost around the clock. the goal is always the same track down test and isolate those who have been exposed to someone with 19 and all of this as quickly as possible. googles 1st case today is the collects is all family. the mother recently tested positive. now the father has symptoms too. could you call it will close up closer. if the test is positive, gergen will also try to trace his contacts. the whole family has to stay at home for the next 14 days. after each visit,
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protective clothing has to be changed. job is time consuming and strenuous, but it's worth it. she says. few countries expanded their contact tracing capacity to the extent turkey did. these teams were keen to slowing the spread of the virus in spring. health officials say, but now like elsewhere in europe, the number off infections here is on the rise again. as in many other countries, people's vigilance here has slackened in a recent survey. more than half of the respondents in turkey said the coronavirus does not affect a worry them and critics also blame the government for this lack of concern. because the health ministry no longer reports the number of new infections every day. but only the number of symptomatic patients john uncuffed on jolo of the opposition. c.h.p.
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says the government is hiding. the real scope of the pandemic is thought will because what cost so slow here in istanbul alone, the number of cases is 20 times higher than the tally from the ministry of health. i'm saying this with regret, but the figures and information we have given are not correct. we're going to go google an image on his on her next house call. although she does not want to take part in political discussions. she knows the debate about the numbers, but doesn't want to get involved. that more and more people disregard the coronavirus rules frustrates her. meaning, which is surely good. it makes me sad. we are putting so much effort into this. but what's the point? if so many act as if nothing can happen to them. and if this doesn't change, we won't see an end to this pandemic sticking. it is a good hopes that she will soon be able to work as
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a dentist again. but she also knows that her new job will be needed for quite a while. let's hear more from dr. margaret harris, who speaks for the world health organization. she joins us from geneva. welcome back to day w. . dr. harris. a contact tracing does seem to be the very heart of the fight against this pandemic. but as we've just seen, contact traces, not only in turkey but elsewhere, where they seem to be overwhelmed. so if the answer simply to just lock down and throw more bodies at the job, knowing it's not, and i used to bring your numbers. but as you say, context tracing is absolutely fundamental and strengthening your contact tracing wherever you are. is that something that we must do and continue to do? i think you know your report, it made a very quick point. i think it was actually the contractors are so this is the joe that we need to hire. and even in times when things seem fine,
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we forgot about this. it's so critical not just to find everybody who's infected, but to find those contacts and also support those contacts. just going to acquire teen and state inquiring teen for the full time and more and more we're seeing that the fight against this pandemic is not just a medical or scientific, but it's social as well. and part of the problem is that if we can't see the end of it, it's difficult for us to maintain any sort of extended state of vigilance. you're absolutely right. and this is a case again with many infectious diseases that when you have something is dramatic as a minute, i actually see unfortunately, people in front of you community doesn't understand that. even with the disease, the seriousness that i worked in many places in africa, the next village doesn't believe there's anything. there's a problem because they haven't seen it yet. this disease is now killed 100000000 of
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us, 1250000 of us and it's killed 60 percent men. so we're losing our men, i mean, we do think women too. but, and that's the real problem. if it was an illness that just made us ill, still be a public health problem. but it's the fact that it's killing so many of us. and it's putting so much pressure on our medical and nursing teams to try to save as many lives as possible. and just following on from what we've seen on to lock down protests around the world, including here in germany. so how do we get the message across to there when they're saying, well, yes, it's all very well locking down. but this, this lock downs are costing us democratic freedoms. so i mean say to people that nobody wants to got to know if the infection rates get so high and contact tracing teams or the hospital so. well, i thought geez,
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don't have much else in the, in the 2 kids. so that's why they go to a doctor so that every person he protests against iraq that i know i don't like the times i'll ask them to redouble their efforts to suppress the fires with the things we know that go into closed spaces. so intellectual hives of crowds be serious about washing our hands with the mask. so that's how you protest against a locked you do the things to make to make sure you don't have to go into another one. so without it then this is this our life for the next year or so until this vaccine sort of is widely available, locked down, contact, trace out of lockdown, infectious increase, and repeat no real life. i think we, this time many countries in europe have got the message. i think the populations have got the message, improve the context,
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raising really take quarantine seriously. if you don't fight just having the virus in your body. so if i slate, even if you don't feel right, well we now know this 20 to 30 percent of people who have symptoms, right? they can in fact this dr. margaret harris from the health organization, but we get the message and we thank you for thank you so much for joining us now to china, which has condemned the mass resignation of pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong as a political fast and a blatant challenge to its author. as a 15 opposition legislator stepped down after 4 of their colleagues were expelled and the new powers allowing the removal of members of the territories parliament were deemed to be disloyal to china. you see america is a radical change for hong kong's legislature. these seats are usually occupied by hong kong's democratic parliamentarians, but now they're empty. as the session got underway
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a day after the mass walkout, one of the lawmakers resigning in solidarity protested he rolled out a banner in the foyer, criticizing city leaders carry lambs decision to disqualify the legislative council as not long afterwards. the lawmakers took part in their last act, formally handing in their resignation, letters. they cues beijing of trying to remove the city's autonomy and shrines in hong kong's basic law. we all know that the federal government, big government can always say everything is right because they have alternate theories of home. but the point is whether or not you can come in here with that. yeah, we have to decide on the 15 lawmakers informally resigned on wednesday in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to national security by
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joining and expelled from the assembly. but pro beijing lawmakers dismissed the opposition's resignations as a political show by government. i don't knock out, it's basically a farce. it's blackmail, and it violates the voters trust departs from what they call the principle of democracy. and it clearly shows they're against the central government. and beijing denies its restricting hong kong special freedoms and says, what should happen in the territory is for it alone to decide jungle taught you to hong kong's, legislative council is china's domestic of fear. no one, the country has the right to comment and to fear this lawmakers walk out of vogue strong feelings in the city a mighty get. i'm very thrilled and i support the disqualification of the law make is that i have been creating chaos in hong kong, and they are against every policy of china. all that i've been angry because even
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the hong kong people, if they stop out all the people i live not belong among the lawmakers, resignations are a sign of escalating tensions between hong kong's ruling executive and the pro-democracy movement, which is determined to show the fight is not over yet. that's it. you're up to date. i'll have more world news at the top off the hour, up next here on day double business update. in the meantime, of course, as always, the web site, as well as i would never
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50th anniversary here on d. w. cutler, south african unemployment leaps above 30 percent of population already struggling to stay in work has seen that situation made much worse by the coronavirus pandemic . also coming up that's very real outgoing. siemens boss, joe kayser tells us he has few regrets over his controversial 7 years at the helm. but as activists point to massive human rights violations in western china, they're asking why volkswagen is still running a car plant that this is the doing business on robots in berlin. welcome to the
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program. south africa's unemployment rate has risen to a record high of 30.8 percent and leapt up by more than 7 percentage points during the 3rd quarter. according to the national statistics office, the country is experiencing its longest recession in 28 years with coronavirus restrictions, forcing many businesses to cut wages, reduce staff numbers, or shut permanently. africa's most industrialized economy has long suffered from extremely high levels of joblessness and government corruption trapping millions in poverty. but i speak to our correspondent in cape town. thanks a lot for joining us. this is a big jump in unemployment. how so many south africans fall into the figures? well, part of it i think, is that south africa had one of the strictest lock downs in the world, basically for months and said that definitely has hammered the job market. what we
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see is that over 2000000, people that lost their jobs during that hard down have not returned to work force and the number that you are mentioning, the 30 percent that's. that's a narrow definition of unemployment. if you look at the broader definition of unemployment and you includes discouraged work seekers, we're talking about 43 percent unemployment. so that indeed is staggering. and a lot of these are young people that africa already for this quarter had the highest youth unemployment in the world. and now it's even higher than it was. yeah, the closer you look at the figures, the west, they also the south african governments, failed to prevent this, but have got a plan to change it. yet as there are several projects that they're starting, for example, to just announce a project of free online courses for young south africans, namely in coding in a building off apps science. but that's of course,
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only for the youth that actually has access to a computer and internet and a lot of them don't. we also see that they have opened up the borders, so they hope that investors will come back. they hope that tourists will come back and that, that's basically basically the plan. and i think the plan is also just to make sure we won't get a lockdown again, because that will be disastrous. what is economy? yeah, those changes that relaxing a very harsh lock down is not expected to how to bring people back into work. yeah, they hope so. actually as of today, africa is welcoming tourists again from all over the world. we have relaxed a little bit already. you know, a while back, but we still had a long list of high risk countries that weren't allowed to fly into south africa. but as of today, the whole world can visit south africa again. and the hope is that that will, you know, fill up, the hotels fill up the restaurants again because that's also
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a sector where there's a lot of job losses and a lot of a lot of those have closed down. so yeah, did they hope that at least will give a little bit of relief and presence will come up or say yes they even they actually spoke on television to, to the nation. and he's saying to people as well, like looks that africa at the moment the figures are not extremely high. but he does see that people are starting to relax because of that, you know, no mosque, no social distancing. and he is also saying, let's please all make an effort to keep the infection rates low so that we can get back to work and build up the country again as much as we can and don't need to go back to, to still staying indoors and, and not working because as i said that that's something really de economy won't be able to handle massively. as those figures are staying relatively static in capetown, thanks for joining us. africa's biggest economy in $1005.00,
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the african continental free trade agreement is a key step towards creating the world's largest free trade area. the deal already signed by $54.00 member states of the african union commits countries to drastically cut tariffs with the aim of boosting. trade by 60 percent by 2022. it was long, unclear whether nigeria would get on board the country is highly dependent on oil. a commodity traded globally rather than within the continent. now german industrial giant, siemens has posted billions of euros in profits for the last fiscal year. as despite the coronavirus pandemic battering parts of its business, its bottom line showed net profits of $4200000000.00 euros. that's a quarter less than during the previous year. almost half the profits came from the recent spin off. siemens energy. the figures cover c.e.o. joe case is final year in charge is exiting siemens to be replaced by roland.
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they are going for executives has been speaking today to the business. we asked how it's sort to find a balance between satisfying shareholders and being a socially responsible company. but the old way of or thinking, you know, the business of business is business. meaning don't care about anybody, just about shareholder value. there it's outdated and the truth have never been that way or kompany, which does not surface, i should not exist. that's my view. so we have to have a value. and if you look at the stakeholders, employees cost them a shareholders, the 3rd edition of the words, there is a new constituency, and that's the society. so they have to say they want to, you know, have companies, performances, they ability, they want the companies to be responsible. they do not want companies to just fire people, because there's a pandemic issue, which is of you know, often nature which can be, it can be defeated. simmons passed
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a german government compensation scheme for energy companies hit by the planned nuclear phase out will have to be completely reworked after a court ruling, a constitutional court here found in favor of germany of energy for vatanen phallus, saying the scheme violated its fundamental rights. germany began its phase out after the fukushima nuclear disaster back in 2011. the swedish company can now hope there'll be more financial compensation on the way for decommissioning. its nuclear power plant compensation for investments that became redundant. soon after the reactor meltdown in fukushima in japan. the german government, in 2011 said it was reducing the certified life spans of the country's 17 nuclear plants for safety reasons. that also had 2 plants in cumberland ponds, buttle in northern germany. at the moment, only 6 nuclear generators are active in germany. they're all slated for compulsory
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shutdown by 2022. button for has not restricted its legal activities to germany. it's also taking its case to the international center for settlement of investment disputes at the world bank, where it's also demanding billions of euros compensation for the loss of its power stations. china continues to ignore criticism of its vast network of detention camps and prisons in the northwest region of jang, human rights groups have increasingly put the spotlight on western companies investing there. one of the biggest is germany's folks. spelling are reports were empty, the capital of china's western region, too weak and other minorities. this is one of the most heavily policed regions in the world. china's repressive policies against ethnic minorities have been called it. genocide is also home to german carmaker folks most controversial and that's w. is the only international car maker to have
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a plant in the region of 20000000 dollars and shut off. we made the decision to they would this factory more than 10 years ago. it was a decision made solely for economic reasons. there was no political motivation. the factor is now in a politically and socially sensitive environment. warnings as china has covered the region with a massive system of prisons and tournaments, centers and reeducation camps. australia's asp institute has documented $380.00 facilities across the region. hundreds of thousands, possibly millions have disappeared in these facilities on a recent visit and constantly followed around, didn't stop them from filming some of the facilities of official prisons, some are unmarked, and some cynically designated as bookish trains. there are several levels of security from high security prisons to just fenced comp.
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kyra, some arcana, cars are born in china has spent several months in one of these so-called vocational schools in 2018. what they had to learn there had little to do with professional skills. he says, to make it be in this camp, we had to sing the chinese anthem and other communist songs. they taught us that china was the strongest country in the world. and we had to study materials about the 19th communist party congress. that's in there. it was china is portraying the mass detentions as a means to provide opportunities on the job market, but there is growing evidence of forced labor inside the camps after release when former detainees have been paused to sign up with employment agencies. v.w. says there's no indication of forced labor and its operations. it was shifting in, the law to direct c., but we hire all our employees directly. they send their resume and we have a job interview. and then the hate charge apartment and the operating department
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make a decision based on the resume and the impression they gave was happened to them before is something that is hard for us to new stuff for us here. this is through extreme shriya enough to footy chinese authorities are aware of the controversy my mind to stay in their car this time, but they call it a factory. god. good bro. filming is not allowed here because it did. they just tell you. no, i saw you from my window. come on, what did they tell you? we're going to come over. they just supervise our work. v.w. says it will stick to its investment, but the controversy is likely to remain economic levy. w.'s investment never paid off. it was planned to build $50000.00 cars a year here, but its output is less than half that and finally, plans for a new highway in kenya's capital nairobi have had to snag well because of
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a century old fake tree. it was due to be up rooted to make way for a support pillar for the chinese funded road. but a government spokesman announced that following an outcry, a presidential decree has been issued protecting the tree, which is the height of a 4 story building. now the china road and bridge corporation and kenya's, highways or thorazine, have agreed to reroute the road around it. and that's all from us. thanks for joining us.
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