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tv   Check-in  Deutsche Welle  November 20, 2020 4:03pm-4:30pm CET

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a lot for people on the ground. it's very emotional. we've seen soldiers, convoys of soldiers who are leaving the area as part of that plan. and people on the ground say that really this feels like a chunk of their homeland is just being given away for free, essential. there's a lot of anger and desperation on the ground. when we were heading back to the yerevan, we saw that people had to set on fire their own houses as they left because they didn't want to leave anything to azerbaijan. now there's a lot of movement in the region at the moment with people returning home, after fighting, and people trying to rebuild their lives after the fighting. we caught up with some of them in a carriage. let's take a look. it's a joyful moment for some united after weeks of fear. now that the fighting in there has ended, hundreds of refugees are returning to their homes. every day. russian peacekeepers
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watch over the process. but not everyone has a home to come back to her mother or from the nearby city of shushi, which is now under control. just like for many here to them. the recent peace deal is a betrayal. we don't know what we will do and when we will hand, we just came here because we have no other option. we don't have a home. yeah. i left everything behind in shoes. she a 2 bedroom apartment with everything in us, old enough and renovate i didn't even manage to take any clothing with me. my neighbor's dog, some of my clothes, one of everything, and this is wash. i came here in with a population of just over 50000 people is the biggest city in
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here think they could soon be dealing with up to 25000 refugees from nearby regions which are no longer under armenian control. had several hotels so that people can live there for now. while we start building more houses for people who have come from the regions all want to live in stock on the cards. and we have to explain to them this step on a card isn't big enough to provide for everyone. we have to send them to live in villages in other areas. even for those who didn't leave. traces of the recent war around every corner. people in have gotten used to living in the middle of a frozen conflict. but after the most recent fighting, even that normality seems far away. preparing for the return of his children and grandchildren who left during the fighting,
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the windows of his building got blown out in a bomb blast for now, plastic sheets will have to do instead. the 65 year old says he and his neighbors lived in the basement for around 3 weeks. many can still remember the fierce fighting of the 1990 s. . i was machine gun fire, back and forth. this time it was really scary weapons. we have to start over now. we don't have anything. we don't have work either but we're going to do our best to live. even with destruction everywhere. most people say leaving is not an option. even though has just gotten smaller. it will always be their homeland. emily terrible situation has so many people had now. russian peacekeepers has been
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deployed to oversee this peace deal. how they viewed by the people in that region. well, it's interesting because i think initially there were people here in yerevan across armenia had a kind of sense of betrayal that russia didn't intervene in the fighting it out of the last few weeks on behalf of armenia, after all, the 2 countries are close allies and they have a defense treaty as well, but president vladimir putin, russian president vladimir putin said that he would only intervene if armenia proper was attacked. when it comes to the peacekeepers, we saw them in step on a carrot. we also saw them at a monastery in the call, but charges straight. one of the districts now being handed over and people really feel very positive about them. they were going up to them taking selfies with them . they even are giving them kind of gifts of pa isn't chocolates and all that. they really feel that they're protecting the region and the sense of betrayal that they
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felt towards russia initially has now certainly been passed on to the prime minister here. you. you mentioned him and i want to get to him next. what about the other? and he's come under immense domestic pressure since the deal was signed. absolutely . there's been ongoing protests calling for him to resign for days now. here in caravan, you might be able to see the police presence behind me at the government building on this square because there have just been protests here with protesters blocking roads here in the center of the city, calling on the prime min. you're a traitor for having signed the peace deal. there were dozens of arrests as well the main. but the president so far is kind of standing his ground, the prime minister rather, and refusing to resign. he has said that he will reshuffle his cabinet, that around 80 percent of the ministers in the cabinet will go. and we've seen that
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in recent days just today there have been 4 resignations including the minister of defense. but it seems that is trying to weather the storm despite the ongoing project protests here in the capital of armenia. or i am in a show and reporting for us from europe. thanks very much. let's turn now to some other stories making headlines around the world. the u.n. agencies have called for a cease fire in ethiopia to help refugees escape the fighting in the north of the country. thousands of people who fled the region with many seeking refuge in neighboring sudan, fighting began 2 weeks ago when he feels his government and rebels in the to grave breaches. police in uganda now say at least 37 people have died in clashes during protests over the arrest of opposition presidential candidate wine, the popular musician was accused of violating covert guidelines. campaigning. we're
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getting reports that wind has been granted bail us drug giant pfizer and its german partner. they've asked the u.s. food and drug administration for emergency approval of their covert 19 faxing. the firm's believes they could begin distributing the vaccine by the middle of middle or late december. the vaccine was 95 percent sick days. in a large scale trial. germany has recorded its highest number of daily corona virus cases. more than 23 and a half 1000 new infections have been confirmed in the last 24 hours. the robert cock institute for insect infectious diseases reports that 880000 people across the country have now contracted covert 19. a rise comes as germany continues to battle, the virus with partial lockdown and tougher restrictions could be put in place. when chancellor angela merkel meets with behaves of the federal state next week
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and staying in germany, german lawmakers across party lines have accused the far right party of a targeted strategy to damage parliamentary democracy. members of the governing grand coalition and the opposition grains, f.d.p. and left party all condemned destructive actions by people invited to the bundestag by the way of 50 visitors entered the bundestag ahead of a vote on extending parliamentary powers. during the coronavirus pandemic, they're accused of harassing politicians and filming them without their permission . a woman filming, and heckling german economy minister, peter altmire, telling him he has quote, no conscience. this all happened inside the halls of germany's parliament, the bundestag. and it wasn't the only case for people entered parliament on wednesday invited by lawmakers from the far right. the party. once left unsupervised, they harassed various politicians in
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a debate in parliament on friday, there was a united front of criticism aimed at the a.f.p. here. i mean, we will protect parliament from these destructive attacks. ladies and gentleman, should be right and this, but all the political differences between f.t.p. c.d.u., c.s.u. and the greens s.p.d. and the left. we will do this together most in the book in the stock. see it as, a deliberate act of provocation by the a.f.p., part of a familiar pattern aimed at discrediting germany's parliament. the a.f.p. rejected the accusations but apologised for the incident before church. the fact that elected representatives of the people were harassed by guests of 2 members of our parliamentary group is uncivilized and unseemly for this. i apologize as chairman of my group is far too easy. it's nothing but crocodile
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tears say many fellow lawmakers. wolfgang schauble, the president of the buddhist saga, is considering legal action against the harassers and those who let them into the building. such a serious threat to free and open discussion. he wrote in a letter to all members of parliament should never occur. i'm joined now by constant tame crooner. he's a member of germany's liberal party, the free democrats, basically. thanks for joining us. you were one of those, harassed by that woman along with finance, minister of peta, of what happened exactly. well, there was a very vivid debate on wednesday in our capital here in berlin about the current measures to fight coronavirus by the german government. and one can argue against the measures introduced by the government. my own party voted against this bill. but you have to do it as a democrat and without violating the rules of parliamentary democracy. however,
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some right wing activists entered the building as guests of the far right populists,, d. and they were filming us without permission. they were trying to arrest us. normally, it's a very good thing for a politician should be asked how you're going to vote. but if this is not supposed to be happening in front of the plenary, this is supposed to happen in the discussions. we have in our concerts, in our constituencies and with the people who are interested in debates and not in threats and violence. i am as fair among members of the want to talk certainly sound hated. now these guests are of bloggers and they were let in with cameras and were able to move around the bonus, turn alone. how can you make mr . carolla a 2nd?
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are you able to hear me? it looks like we may have lost the order to mr. cohen apologize for that. hello. we'll try to get him back. no, now his death having gone, i'm sorry about that. we'll try and get him back later in the program. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. aviators have failed to resolve the dispute over the glocks budget. poland and hungary vetoed the proposed budget over a provision to block aid to countries deigned in violation of rule of law standards . about half of the 1.8 trillion euro package is emergency funding for economies hit by the pandemic. officials in the u.s. state of georgia say a hand tally of votes cast in the presidential election confirms democrat, joe biden won the state. the recounts of around 5000000 votes came from an audit
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required by a new state law and was not due to any problems with the original counts. officials say, dozens of people are dead in central and south america. after hurricane iotas whips through the region, it struck nicaraguans caribbean coast on monday as a category 4 hurricane causing heavy rains and mudslides rescue workers continue to search for survivors. 75 years ago today, the trials opened in nuremberg of 24, high ranking members of the nothing dictatorship. the judicial proceedings were, the 1st of their kind. the nuremberg trials, sort of hold individuals to account instead of punishing an entire nation. i also came to lay the foundations for today's international criminal court in the hague. rice, marshall hermann, goering, hitler's deputy rudolf hess, and chief r.t.o.
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just alfred rosenberg in the dark. on november 20th, 1945. many of the leading nazi figures had by then gone into hiding or committed suicide, including hitler. but for the 1st time in history, the rules of a country had to answer to an international criminal court. the allies wanted to show that the individuals would be held responsible for the crimes of the nazis, not the german people, as a home. the charges against the main war, criminals included conspiracy against world pace planning, unleashing and conducting a war of aggression, crimes and violations of martial law. crimes against humanity. because not guilty, like home and getting none of the queues were willing to take responsibility. many germans only learnt about the unbelievable extent of the crimes during the trial.
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on october 1st, 946, the sentences were handed down 3 acquittals, 3 life sentences for prison sentences, 12 death sentences were carried out shortly afterwards. the nuremberg trials became a historical milestone. they paved the way for the future international criminal court in the hague. joining me now is philip sands is a professor of laws and the director of the center on international courts and tribunals that university college london. mr. science, thanks for joining me. these trials were groundbreaking on so many levels and given the unique circumstances. what exactly was unique about the trial? well, it was the 1st time in human history that any international criminal trial had taken place. so it truly was a 1st and they literally had to invent new crimes to apply to these defendants. you mention crimes against humanity,
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but of course it was on this day 75 years ago that the word genocide was 1st used because it was created as a war crime. so it was a wholly original process untried, untested completely new waters. and i want to talk to you further, but before we continue, let's listen to 2 men that spoke to one, and that's survivor. and the other, the son of a nazi deputy, they told us about the impact that these tribunals had on their lives. in 1904 peter guard was 14 years old. when he, his mother and his sister, were deported to the auschwitz concentration camp. one year later, at the nuremberg trial, he recognised some of the men who sent them to the gas chamber. it was pure luck that he survived. i followed the trial and felt great satisfaction, that at least the main were brought to justice by the allies. and that they finally
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received their just punishment. nicholas frank also experienced an unexpected end to his carefree childhood. his father, hans frank, was hitler's deputy in occupied poland. hans was one of the main war criminals dubbed the butcher of poland. nicholas was only 6 then. he was teased at school at school. some kids made up rhymes minister, minister gas canister, because i was the son of a heist minister. but that wasn't so bad either one said to me, good nicky, nicky, that was my nickname. your daddy will be hanged soon. so i just answered yes. up until the very end, the main war criminals denied the systematic extermination of jews. they tried to deny everything and said they knew nothing. but during the trial,
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they were shown films of the concentration camps with the mountains of corpses. and afterwards, even getting himself was dazed. none of the accused at the nurnberg trial to credit for their actions. they pushed the responsibility up the chain of command. they said they only have bad orders. they blamed everything on hitler or himmler who were both dead by then. nicholas for father was sentenced to death. his and 11 more death sentences were carried out on october 16th, 1946 at the movies. back then they showed not how they were hung, but how they lay in their conference with the white and black stripes noose around their necks. and i thought they all deserved to wear that next time. nicholas fong always carries a photo of his hanged father with him. and whenever he feels just
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a touch of pity for his dad, he thinks of auschwitz. and then he affirms the verdict of the nuremberg trial was just the sounds were turning back to you now. how just trials they were also controversial? well, you know, i'm actually in nuremberg, i'll be attending this ceremony tonight with the president stand by, which is a great honor for me. and it was interesting for me to listen to nick. he helped me a lot on my book east west street. i was very surprised. the 1st time i met him, he said to me, you know, felipe, i'm against the death penalty in all cases except in the case of my father. and as you report right, nick considers it to be just look, it wasn't a perfect trial. there were curious rules, english barristers were not allowed to act for the defense. and the german lawyers who represented the defendants had never really done cross-examination before in
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that english style. so it was far from perfect. i'm not starry eyed about it, but it was a lot better than the alternative, which was churchill's idea of lining up the defendant. and shooting them and what it did was it created the idea of justice in the courtroom. and of course, if we did not have your book, we would not have had everything that was followed in terms of rwanda and yugoslavia and all sorts of other international arles. or indeed, i want to ask you about that too. how important were there? in fact, trials for international or as we know it today. absolutely crucial. all roads lead to new york, but, you know, last december i was in the international court of justice in the hague. i was doing the case for the gambia against me and ma, in relation to the treatment, the allegations of genocide against the rohingya community and sitting in a couple of seats down for me was about and saying, sushi nobel prize winner. she would not have been in court in the hague, but for the nuremberg trials, it's a simple as that it changed. indeed it did for having said that we of course,,
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have the international criminal criminal court in the hague, the i.c.c., but with many world powers such as the us time. now russia not, not recognizing it, how effective can at bay. well, it's, you know, we're into early days, international justice and international criminal law. i think it is a very long game in 1905. the world changed for the 1st time states loans. they could not create to their citizens and they wished they could kill them. they couldn't torture them anymore, they couldn't disappear that the middle east, not in accordance with international law. and you can't expect a change of that kind. it was revolutionary to have an instant effect. and so i think it's a couple of steps forward, a step sideways a step. it's a long game, but over the long run, the arc of history is towards justice. and i think over time,, these countries that don't participate, the u.s., russia, china will begin to get involved on fascinating enforcing. that's all we have time
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for professor philip sands. thanks very much for speaking to my for her to be with you. well, time for just a little bit of school now brasier dortmund coco is celebrating his 16th birthday today. but tomorrow there may be even more cause for celebration. that's because he's all set to become the bundesliga youngest ever player. here's a closer look at germany's next year. super mukoko is already used to breaking records. he scored 46 goals in one season, playing for dortmund's under seventeen's team when he was just 14 years old. born in cameroon, macaco is not your average academy product. i was a street footballer in cameroon. there wasn't any local team you just played with friends in the northern and for not. in 2014, he moved to germany to live with his father and 2 years later joined dormand,
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a club with a tradition of playing young talents. the current record for youngest bundesliga player was set by another dormant academy product nori schoene, who was then one month shy of his 17th birthday. this january coach called makoto up to the senior team, but league regulations meant he could not play until he turned 16. he's also caught the eye of germany, coach your below, and is already playing for the country's under twenty's national team. to go to the ocean in top, i've seen a few videos of him playing ok, sean cole. so it's almost unbelievable how someone his age can score so many goals against players to or 3 years older than him. he does have these qualities that i very rarely come across before. if you like, are citizens of 4, you can relate to how once in a generation, talent who may still be on ball collecting duty after his professional debut. but
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