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this is the the view news live from berlin protesters in mi amman defy a ban on further demonstrations citizens take to the streets of yangon for a 4th day to denounce the military's take over of their country there's no letup to the public display of anger despite the pool eat cool leaders pressed to take action against large gatherings also coming up. and the difference between life and death is just 2 minutes we'll hear from some of the survivors of a deadly dam collapse in the in the indian hima legs. and the tit for tat route
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between europe and russia over kremlin critic alexei navalny in moscow has expelled envoys from germany sweden and poland 3 governments retaliated by showing russian diplomats the door. i'm good how else was welcome to the program security forces in myanmar have been arresting protesters and have again used water cannon to try to disperse crowds after people took to the streets for a 4th day against a military coup military leaders are threatening to quote take action against large public gatherings hundreds of thousands to fight the protest ban and turned out in large numbers in the country's largest cities to denounce the military's takeover of their country and the arrest of deposed leader aung san suu kyi. who has now
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imposed a curfew on the angolan mandalay pro-democracy activists say they will continue to fight. the week of military rule in myanmar has triggered a groundswell of protest across the nation. in the biggest city young gone they have a simple demand for the military had back the power to the elected officials time line at one time sunset she and president mean to be released quickly at a dinner we want all the people from the winning party the n l d to be released that's what we all want and i think. monks and protesters marched holding the red flags of our unsung suit cheese national league for democracy they say it's their last chance to fight the dictatorship. to use power to run the country and use the country's resources for their families and for the own sake they don't do anything good for the citizens and the country's
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development. and there were red protests in the capitals night. but demonstrators braved police water canon blocking that path. many here a state employees perhaps a sign of the anger of those who have briefly enjoyed democracy after 5 decades of military rule. in a t.v. address to the nation the country's new military leaders sought to justify the current gentlemen repeated the military's line that campaigning in last november's poll had been unfair you know. we're getting the response of both or it is regarding voter fraud. that election delivered just a handful of seats for the generals party and a landslide to see cheese and l.t. she's now believed back in house arrest where the army had kept her for 15 years
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that peaceful resistance made her and i can have democracy. but the hunter is already warning that any resistance to their rule is unlawful. and he posed in 1000 feet bringing more protests and tricking fisa to bloody crackdown could soon fall out. of all of this story i'm not joined by an activist in mandalay and for security reasons he wishes to remain anonymous so us will just call him. sam the military has banned gatherings where you are and mandalay and threaten to take further action against us traitors tell us what's going on on the streets where you are you know so i'm actually standing behind a large demonstration taking place right now only mentally. destroying 4 people who was arrested by the police for protesting and people no good here are demanding their immediate release. has there been any of violence against these protesters so far. no not. all that has happened yet.
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there's a launch number of police here and they also have water cannons and. yes i you worry about further crackdown hard a crackdown from the military. yeah. so basically the military has never been you know scared to make people. aware. they are going to continue making people here. and. i guess sooner or later do it they will resort to violence. so how far are you and all the other activists are willing to take these these protests. to b.n.
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because this is unacceptable this is not lawful and this can't happen ever again so. we're going to read all this evil. but do you see any possibility for compromise to be arranged with a military government. there i do not see any country was. falsely are not going to you know. how good. we are as a people have determined that we are not going to. do is to sign. some and activist and mandalay protesting the military coup that thank you very much for your time fuck you very much for survivors of a dam collapse and the indian himalayas have been telling their stories of the moment they had to run for their lives the dam was overwhelmed in a flash flood after part of a glacier broke off its end
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a wall of water and debris of rushing down a mountain $26.00 people have been confirmed dead at least $170.00 more are still missing. cleanup is underway but for the men who are working in underground tunnels as the floodwaters hit the memories are not so easily pushed aside. the difference between life and death was just 2 minutes if we hadn't run if we'd waited even 2 minutes we would have died around $25.00 to $30.00 of a survived. of that i was working down and the others were higher up and suddenly the workers started screaming fraud brandon run away water is coming. i ran and got away but many just couldn't escape and to attract. the flash flood in the top of an area of a tar can state destroyed bridges and roads and hit 2 hydroelectric power plants.
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more than 2000 members of the military paramilitary and police forces are involved in the search for survivors. but increasingly they recognize that their work is becoming a recovery mission. team as he is searching for bodies if we see anyone near the banks or in the river our job is to recover them. this if i visit are all too aware of how fortunate they were to escape every day i feel like i've been given a new life i am still very shaken by what happened some people got stuck inside the tunnel. meanwhile rescuers continue this search as best they can i went that time is of the essence. has a roundup of some of the other stories making headlines around the world today according on call has denied bail for jimmy lai a newspaper publisher and government critic he faces charges under the territories
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new national security law lie was arrested in december in a crackdown on pro-democracy activists protesting chinese influence in hong kong. police in haiti have fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating near the presidential palace in porto pass tensions have been rising over who should be the country's legitimate leader opposition politicians say the current president's term has expired and have named their own interim head of state the government has accused the opposition of an attempted coup. colombia's president ivan to carry has announced a new statutes to register migrants and refugees nearly 1000000 venezuelans are currently in the country without proper documentation it would allow people to get residence permits apply for jobs and access health care. germany poland and sweden have expelled russian diplomats in a coordinated response to their expulsion the expulsion of their own diplomats from moscow last week the german foreign ministry said the kremlin's decision to
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announce the expulsion while the use foreign policy chief was in moscow was unjustified russia hughes's the diplomats of participating in in legal demonstrations in support of kremlin critic alexei navalny. earlier we spoke with d.w. political correspondent simon young and i asked him how the international community is trying to put pressure on russia over our legs in a volley. well it's very clear that this was a coordinated action today by germany sweden and poland they've all moved to expel a russian diplomat from their capitals it also came just after a meeting of video conference meeting between representatives of the u.s. the u.k. and canada and the e.u. to talk about how to respond to russia's actions in recent days and to the. russian treatment of protesters there and so on so there does seem to be
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a sort of concerted international action the e.u. foreign affairs representative years that burrell has said the e.u. and russia are drifting apart and he says it's now for member states to decide what further steps to take that could include further sanctions being imposed on russia so the obvious political correspondent some young reporting. lebanon's medical system is in crisis as the country battles an increase in covert 19 infections the government has begun easing its 24 hour a day lockdown even though the number of deaths is still rising evidence economy is in freefall with more than half of its citizens now living in poverty that's forcing many health workers to look for work abroad. every band here is full. staff working round the clock as they risk their lives to save lives. like there patients
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here at refugee camp near a university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. hope you know i see my children every day but every day i live in fear that i may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks what i see you birds are full and we have about 20 patients and their measures here all waking crew are empty but. this is really is very exhausting corrado stuff. for almost a month the country has been on dry 24 hour a day care few to try to tackle the spread of covert 19 but anti lock down protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures
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that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of . infections and the community is still hard we have more than one person positivity and if we prematurely open the company that will lead to reversal of the all the gains that we have. in our chief. while patients here are receiving the best care available a shortage of medicines is making the job for health professionals even tougher. the economic crisis is also forcing some to leave lebanon altogether. we can't see the skilled helps with kids at all of it just looking forward to leave because i don't have exact numbers but also i'm a hopeless tejas. to sions who is still thought of stuff to have this ship to 3 of
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the 250 physicians look 60 people have departed they have left which is it which is a trick of love. in the middle of a pandemic hospitals like this can't afford to lose a single member of staff but with lebanon in crisis they may have no choice. before we go some sports news at the world club cup in qatar champions league winners by munich through to the finals after defeating african champions of egypt to nil the germans in no wyse quickly took control in the 1st half and the 17th minute forward what would have scored from 10 meters to give bond a one day continued the pressure 2nd half of the head in a few minutes from time for the final to nil school now advanced to the final on thursday against the us off mexico.
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