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deliberately carried out by a party to the current fighting. these killings as civilians would of course, amount to war crimes. it's still unclear who is responsible for the mass killings follow days of clashes between federal troops and to ground forces. the region has become the latest flashpoint, stemming from ethiopia's complex, if politics to grinds, controlled, central government for 30 years, but their power has waned under prime minister who came to power in 28 increasing resentment intentions became open defiance in september and to grow rejected the central government's authority and held its own elections. now the feud has descended into conflict with the government varying to crush what it calls a rebellion
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and fugitive brought to justice. as civilians flee fears amounting that ethiopia could be at the beginning of a protracted and bloody civil war. a lot of talk about here. let's get to it with a semi all get you is a journalist based in athens abacha standing by for us. samuel, thank you so much for joining us. it's been difficult for outsiders to get accurate information on this conflict communication and the tea cry region shut down. journalists aren't allowed to move freely there. what's the latest? you can tell us. the league as human, if you're going, has suspended any flights close to growing including going to go under barca are the 2 cities that were attacked last night. 18 people have so far today because of the incident and even lalibela, the historic city of lalibela. so you know,
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the information we're getting is very limited because we can't travel to too great for instance. but we're getting the information from amnesty international and people are sending us information. once we share the sudanese side. but we are certain that people are dying, and more people will be heading to sudan because that's the only option the conflict has been building up for quite some time. now. what led to it ultimately, escalating in the way we're seeing now? well, you know, the state of the great held election in september, but isn't accepted by the government nor the parliament of the house of federation . so since then, and even before that for the last year, they've been having different, you know, social media or staying, you know, conflicts
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a general those of pointed by the federal government to head to mcnally was the jet, the us sent from mccully back to the cell of our so the prime minister and the president who has just immediately go, has a wanted man, according to the federal government. they've been having this kind of conflict and you have to know that the both of them run for the to be prime minister of 2 years ago. and the action in support of them are leadership. so they've been having this back and forth while it was building up to these conflicts. that's generally, that's become a deli making many people miserable and sending them to sudan for safety. today we started receiving reports of the fighting spilling over into neighboring region. how could this conflict affect the stability of ethiopia as a whole? it's not just if your people should be worried about, well, to answer your question. it's
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a faith in the region that has been in conflict with the great leadership for a long time. but it's also the fears that might even spill to south sudan, sudan, which was a part of your one point. and even this migrants with so little resources in sudan might be forced to head to european nations. so this is a concern of international perspective and that's why the uk and even even washington d.c.'s and trying to bring them all sides to some kind of ceasefire because people are just miserable just in need. and the resources are just, they don't even compete in the u.n. has been calling for a cease fire or even to be allowed to goods. it's a great so they can actually save lives. and this is what happened, a definite situation there, samuel get a show and as abba, thank you so much for your analysis. and you let's take
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a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. u.s. president donald trump has made his 1st public statement since t.v. networks called the election for his democratic rival. joe biden. though he did not concede, trump said, quote, time will tell when talking about which administration will be leading future efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. dozens have died in the philippines after typhoon unleashed floods and landslides. it's the deadliest storm. the country has seen this year. more than $400000.00 people had to flee their homes. vietnam's central coast is now bracing for the typhoon to make landfall early on sunday. thousands of anti-government protesters in thailand have gathered bangkok's democracy monument. the festive demonstration is the latest and months of rallies that are also calling for reforms of the country's powerful monarchy. protests began in july,
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initially seeking the removal of the prime minister, a former leader in india's capital, new delhi, smog has taken to on the day of to ali the hindu festival of lights. the city's air quality is currently considered hazardous. this, after authorities have banned the use of firecrackers on the most important hindu festival. environmentalist's had called on government to do more this week, a peace agreement put an end to over a month of bitter conflict between a surprise john and armenia, and calls for armenians to leave large parts of the long disputed nagorno-karabakh region. that's provoked outrage in armenia, where people see themselves betrayed by their government and by russia, which oversaw the deal. those forced from their homes, say they're not leaving anything for their enemies. one last
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look before leaving it all behind. while their home might still be somewhat intact, after 6 weeks of conflict, their right to live, there is not. now many armenian residents of the cabbage or region are intentionally burning their homes before they're forced to hand them over to their enemies. after decades raising their families here and fighting to keep the territory, the new peace deal says it's time to leave. in the end, we will blow up or put a fire to all of this. we will not leave anything to them. who i didn't want us to now the children in armenia are crying, they want to return home. it's hard, this depth of sorrow.
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for decades, the nagorno-karabakh region has been the source of bloody conflict between the 2 countries. under the ceasefire agreement signed by the leaders of azerbaijan and armenia, and russia on tuesday, as a by john will regain control of the calabash, our region, and several other areas. as armenians their fleet, many say they want to know why russia has abandoned them, is this good sees it was soviet russia that originally declared nagorno-karabakh part of azerbaijan, 100 years ago. but the majority of people who lived there remained armenians. now under the new russian brokered peace deal, that is set to change defending the new deal. putin is calling for a humanitarian response to the chaos. the conflict has unleashed but if you
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turn our attention to the serious humanitarian problems in the nagorno-karabakh region, over 4000 civilians were victims to the fighting over 8000 were injured estimates show, the number of refugees is in the 10s of thousands. armenians are furious with russia and their own government for signing the deal since it was announced on tuesday, thousands have taken to the streets of year of on daily to demand prime minister nicola pasha neon resign. as this latest turn in history plays out, people on both sides are mourning the thousands who have died in just the past 6 weeks of battle for control of nagorno-karabakh. meanwhile, europe is in the middle of a 2nd wave of the coronavirus and with a number of infections continuing to rise in many countries, governments are turning to even tighter measures to control the spread of the virus . greece is set to close all its schools while austria, which currently has the highest and faction rate of any major country, is planning
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a tough 3 week lockdown in other parts of the continent. graham seems reminiscent of those 1st seen in italy and spring are now starting to play out another life. lost to the pandemic. primitive organs in the czech republic of having to keep pace with the country's covert $1000.00 death toll, which is now the worst per capita in europe. because the number of deaths is rising in many places. and there are problems now with cremations sleeves, to make it a month of may in the french city of bordeaux students queue for food handouts at the university campus. many of lost a part time jobs in bars and restaurants. due to pandemic, lockdowns, i have to pay 545 year olds for rent. that leaves me with $100.00 euros a month to live off. life in france is dominated by the battle to stop the spread
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of the virus. the number of patients being treated in hospital is also hitting record highs. all new patients are being hospitalized at a rate of about one every 30 seconds with about one every 3 minutes being admitted to the i.c.u. . italy's health system is also reaching breaking point again is footage from an overcrowded cleaning can night pulls. oh, my father had oxygen saturation levels of 60 percent, but the hospital turned him away. we begged them to take him, but they refused until he got even worse. yesterday he died. he now fears a repeat of spring when the country became a global if the center of the virus for up to date on w. news at this hour. but remember, you can get more in-depth stories and reports on our web site. just go to d, w dot com, a link in now with pictures of hindus around the world,
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celebrating diwali, the festival of lights on the fairly from me and the entire news team here in berlin. thanks for watching. the film from
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pop star wars against total shock violence coming from a poor family to become president challenges around those the incredible story of bobby wind starts december 10th on g.w. this week on the world story. beijing, joe biden causes a boom for a noodle, bar. berlin, bidding farewell to take the airport. but we start in finland at the capital's airport in helsinki. dogs are helping to detect coronavirus and infected people.
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the dogs could accurately snip out the virus as early as 5 days before. symptoms appear. for a treat, preferably cathode, this now to can be programs to find it just about anything more old bed bugs, cancer. now it could change the course of corona virus detection, need to see rescued from being euthanized as a puppy in spain. he's returned that favor for years sniffing out deadly disease for the wise new smell detection association and then land as coded. 19 began to spread. q.c. was asked as an experiment to try to detect. it took its 7 minutes to figure out that this is what they want it to look for. so that totally blew our minds. you know dog be able to change training sense in 7 minutes. you know, it's the team quickly learned canines can detect
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a coded $1000.00 infection even 5 days before symptoms appear, with almost 100 percent accuracy. helsinki airport is hosting a pilot project through december that will include cross referencing canine results with those for medical devices. if you talk to the skin, so here it just takes a simple swab from a restore neck here. and there you desire. yes, and wait, couple of seconds. a dog can tell immediately if a person has contract and coronavirus. so i received a negative, as all the voluntary tests are proving popular, but no positive signal yet from the finnish government about scaling up. the programme is deputy mayor of vaughan, the site of the airport. i concede it in 2 minutes, took me 2 minutes out and get this budget covers the free tests offered to all arriving passengers. he allocated 330000 euros total to the 4 month dog study.
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to says the data from this study should help bring in federal funds for expansion of canine testing, as well as legal adjustments to upgrade the virus sniffing dogs authority to that of their counterparts working in customs. because i write about idol, which i like that they can and they go to cope both on a human bjorkman is thinking far beyond airports. we could train dogs with the same samples with the same training areas to open up you know, the concert halls or, or being fair is or go to big working places. hospitals or elderly homes, football matches whatever. both york man and bobby line and mourn. if dylan doesn't harness the potential of the dog program, it's well for they'll unleash it elsewhere. we can will because she loves that. she
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says health authorities from all over the world want to learn what these noses know . our next trip is to kenya in 1998, more than $220.00, people were killed and thousands more injured in attacks on the u.s. embassies in nairobi and dar es salaam and tanzania to this day, many victims are still waiting in vain for financial restitution. esther remembers that day like it just happened on the 7th of august 1998 at 10. 30 in the morning. she heard the 1st blast when i knew that the whole building was time, you know, and that is why i think the pre-op retreat a lot to me because of my getting 3. then the 2nd blast, it's when i was thrown out. and people tell me that i was collected on the pavement . i looked like i had died. so they thought that those severely
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injured she survived. and that they almost imitate his knee. bombs exploded at u.s. embassies in nairobi, kenya and dar es salaam, tanzania. the blasts killed 224 people and injured about 5000. esther was working at the bank right next to the embassy. she was retired on medical grounds at only 42 years old. nevertheless, she still wanted to work, but was rejected because of medical reasons. i was not the noble woman that would be the woman who used to be all my family and if it were not to to be raised. i feel so sad that i'm not able to, you know, to work for my company. from then on the former supervisor dependent on financial support from her family. regularly. she meets up with other survivors of the attack . michael lost his mother when he was only 2 years old. douglas lost his eyesight.
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they've also struggled financially. then they heard of the new deal brokered by the u.s. and the sudanese government sudan has agreed to pay $335000000.00 of compensation to the victims of the attacks in return, the u.s. removes the country from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. so dan was listed because it holds that al qaeda leader, osama bin laden as a guest of the government. but with a deal only for my us and local embassy employees are to receive compensation. that's only one percent of the people who were killed or injured, says douglas, we've become garman through africa, our lives of being american. but we feel we are just human beings like america. and we'd be treated just as much as american citizens now, 22 years later, and still in pain and needs medication to be able to sleep. if she would receive
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compensation, she says she would be able to pay the looming school fees so that her sons can finally graduate. i, frustrated, discriminated, hated, because i don't hear the difference between an american election. esther's biggest help now is that the new us president elect joe biden will reconsider the compensation plan and include all survive us. yes. for days now, a small middle restaurant in china's capital city, beijing has been inundated with customers. the reason us president elect joe biden, he visited the diner in 2011 as u.s. vice president and won the hearts of many chinese patrons with his noodle diplomacy . this noodle joint in downtown beijing has been popular for years with local residents and tourists. but recently,
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a new group of visitors has shown up national and international media. all came here yesterday by accident. but today i fear a serious problem. any ideas that come here, that's not a starbucks surprise for me, as for the reason is america's new president elect in 2011. joe biden, america's then vice president had lunch here and we felt very honored to say that he had his lunch and talk to our chinese customers. i felt he was a very decent and easy going person. yes. mrs. e. i was father opened this traditional beijing restaurant in 1996. mr. biden's visit the restaurant has become well known beyond the city. this is ya does not want to talk politics, but her preferences are clear enough to break down, because biden came joris terrans. many people in china got to know was that i was
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making an appeal out. they know he came to our place to try traditional beijing dishes and they wanted to try them out themselves and only yeah, that's why we feel very positive about him. he might even say we are supportive change the restaurants serves traditional beijing dishes noodles, pork buns and livest to it's a simple neighborhood joined the chinese public quickly note at the modest choice at the time, biden paid just 12 u.s. dollars for a lunch of 5 people this really shows how nice the food is here. it means chinese cuisine has already made it to the world. the u.s. and china may now be pitted against each other as rivals on the world stage when it comes to loot diplomacy. he says, yah, this restaurant is coming out a winner. our final trip brings us to germany. it
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was here where for lent take an airport finally closed last week. it's the end of an era. and the closure is a special moment. that evokes many memories for 2 architects who are now old man. might hard for air con and folks in mark, have come to say good bye to their airport berlin table before it closes down for good. they wanted to take a walk down memory lane. you're here that this is where the wooden puzzle piece floorboards were. they were very beautiful, but an acoustic disaster because of the wire luggage carts. suitcases with wheels came later back then those carts were allowed. so we scrapped the original floorboards and replaced them. they designed every single detail in this terminal from the building's shape to the interior styling and even the indoor and outdoor signs take all airport wasn't just a run of the mill project for these famous german architects. it was their 1st big commission after getting their college degrees. in 1966,
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their design won the competition for the new airport in the divided city of berlin . at that point in time table was just an airfield. it was originally a takeoff and landing runway used for air lift planes, bringing goods to the landlocked city of west berlin after the 2nd world war. then it was repurposed in 1974, the new airport opened. over 2000 people came to the event. their entrance ticket was a pair of hexagon shaped glasses like these table became the prototype of the short distance airport. optimizing the space between arrival and departure gates, it was popular with berliners and tourists. the airport was the point of arrival for prominent guests. it was the stage where emotional moments took place like the return of the german soccer world champions in 2014. but the airport became out of touch with modern needs. it was old fashioned and too small for
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a booming capital city. after german reunification it was necessary to build a new airport and close down tagore. if this is an up shoot, now it's time to say goodbye. really was not without a touch of melancholy. because this building documents a time, our job was all about serving people's needs. a time when customer was king. on their final walkthrough taiko, the architects had to get used to the empty walkways. due to the coronavirus pandemic, there has been little air traffic turning the airports last months. but the 2 men get consolation from one decision that terminal a will remain standing as a monument to the designers and the people of berlin.
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