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years of jewish life germany. this week. in culture. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin the united nations warns me a large military leaders there will be severe consequences for any harsh response to protesters demonstrating against this month's new bought with troops on the streets there's fear there could be a planet crackdown also coming up hungary welcomes its 1st shipment of the chinese son of farm vaccine to countries decided to break away from the e.u.
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joint plan and go its own way to fast track rollout and it's snowing goals in the area as little bielefeld get money beyond a scare amid in this league a blizzard. well i'm terry martin good to have you with us the un special envoy to me on maher has told the country's military junta it will face quote severe consequences for any crackdown on protesters and demonstrators are back on the streets for the 15th straight day after the military seized power in a coup earlier this month the hunter has deployed extra troops across the country as it intensifies efforts to quell a popular uprising local media reported that security forces opened fire to
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disperse crowds in the city of munda lay on monday and there are fears the situation could escalate despite international attention. mian mars military junta has sent in the big guns soldiers are patrolling the streets a sign that the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters could escalate. since this month screw the military has given itself sweeping powers allowing it to detain people without court order. to imagine what you've done today here we can see military vehicles not police security like before they've tightened security at the central bank because this is the mainstream of the country's money in circulation they are afraid the central bank will stop working so that's why they've deployed the military vehicles here the orders. but the demonstrators are not intimidated
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bank employees have joined engineers doctors students and even soccer players and refusing to go to work. you're going to people's actions won't stop because they have already taken the 1st step which is the most difficult one people are marching on the streets and they don't care if they are arrested or shot of we can't stop now the fear in our minds is going away. the release of civilian leader own son suchi is a key demand of demonstrators she was scheduled to appear in court but the hearing has been postponed until wednesday meehan maher does not have an independent judiciary suchi could be kept in custody indefinitely but as government workers join the civil disobedience movement it could eventually become difficult for the military to keep the government and the hunters hold on it running. for more let's cross over to an activist in myanmar he goes by the name of sam and
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he's based in the country's 2nd largest city. thanks for being with us let me start by asking you about those clashes being reported between security forces and protesters in mandalay what have you seen. you know yesterday there were people were gathering in front of a central bank and mentally and during the time of the police came in and dean didn't want anyone they didn't make any announcements and they came in and the detroit just hers and they also use slingshots and then there's all kinds which uses that bullets so to disperse the crowd and they're also seen firing into that building and they're surrounding. and so and in a surrounding history so. basically they're using drones against the protesters the protesters that we've seen so far appear to be the
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peaceful this civil disobedience movement that is now underway in myanmar what impact do you think it's going to have on myanmar's military rulers who apparently are prepared to use force. basically the civil disobedience mean going has no sick no state impact on. ruling. and so they're using force to make the civil servants go back into work so they are. doing that illegal adoption in the middle of the night. to the people that are participating in civil disobedience movements and they're also certainly people that are you know helping the civil these workers so this is another thing that. we have to keep in mind
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because he said that acts of terror and basically this is an. this these are getting to be should do sort of according to the law tell us more about your protest movement there have been several in the past and they have failed what makes yours any different so yeah this time we as a younger generation and here. we go we all will own its own organize and we are trying our best to get into an international attention i also we are keeping these protests as peaceful as we can so and as you conceded even though we are trying our best to keep the peace. among protest there are. going to areas very. yeah yeah they're going there is going to care and be
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involved in those and the are using drones but this time i think that people on the world yeah thank you sorry i just wanted to ask you you say that the military is ready to use violence you're trying to be peaceful you think this is going to have an impact but the military controls the internet they can shut it down whenever they want how do you think this is going to play out. hazarding shouldn't own the internet or. from one end tonight you're staring yesterday to do you get yesterday's so. i didn't even have to shut down the internet and we. had a kind of like a directive to. go to protests so we don't actually you know. going
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to shut down the internet or you don't do a trick news. to the world yeah ok sam thank you very much for talking with us and we hope to talk to you again soon that was sam an activist in mandalay thank me on martha inc you very much. now despite the stories making news around the world a group of prominent pro-democracy activists have gone on trial in hong kong they're facing charges in connection with the anti-government protests that rocked the city in 2019 include the founder of the hong kong democrats martin lee and media tycoon jimmy line. one during authorities have incinerated nearly one and have tons of cocaine seized from drug cartels the incineration comes as u.s. protesters prosecutors rather investigate honduran president on orlando and and as for accepting bribes to protect drug traffickers who ship cocaine to the u.s.
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. in just a few hours from now a special flight carrying around half a 1000000 doses of china's sign a far cry on a virus vaccine well arrived in hungary hungry will be the 1st european union to administer both the chinese job and russia's sputnik the vaccine the government has granted emergency approvals to the vaccines bypassing approval from medical regulators after criticizing the pace of the vaccine rollout. hungary is going it alone last friday it became the 1st country in the european union to administer russia's sputnik v vaccine starting with a batch of 2800 doses on tuesday a delivery of the chinese seen a farm vaccine is expected to arrive another 1st in the e.u. this is a clear break with the e.u.'s vaccine rollout plan which officials in hungary have
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repeatedly criticized for being too slow prime minister viktor orban said hungary is taking matters into its own hands. we can stop the virus without vaccines because it will always come back in new waves that's why our countries most important task is to get as many vaccines as possible. not later as promised by brussels but quickly your song. the russian and chinese vaccines were granted emergency approval in hungary but they have yet to receive the green light from the e.u.'s regulatory authority the e.m.e.a. they haven't been reviewed by hungary's medicines regulator either instead of getting approval via government decree that strong criticism from scientists the prime minister or byrne has been looking elsewhere for inspiration. neighboring
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serbia which is not an easy member was the 1st venture in europe to administer china seen a farm jab this helped make serbia the country with the 2nd fastest vaccine roll out in the year up to after the u.k. . through volatile. in hungary or a band says he hopes to inoculate 2500000 people by easter about one in 4 hunger ariens thanks to the seen a farm jab if successful hungary's decision to go it alone could further undermine the e.u.'s common vaccination strategy. the coronavirus pandemic has led to the closure of many cultural venues including the famed museum in paris but while the doors are closed an army of curators and restorers are making the most of the opportunity to clean our works and make serry repairs 10 scale 10 large scale projects are currently underway that will make art lovers glad to come back once the museums doors reopen. masterpieces on display and empty halls for
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months now the loot museum has been closed to visitors typically some 10000 artificial now those would stand shoulder to shoulder in these galleries on any given day to see classic works like the mona lisa and wing victory the pandemic change that last october the crews are getting ready for when guests are welcomed back. to record my colleagues usually say i'm the happiest man in the museum because my job as a maintenance and works manager is probably the least impacted by the crisis we're taking advantage of the museum's closure to speed up maintenance and to do repairs that are difficult to schedule when the museum is open. roughly 250 employees are here daily to spruce up the parisian landmark elizabeth and one kerning is the head curator of the artifacts department she's excited to see
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visitors reactions. when the museum reopens everything will be perfect this sleeping beauty will have had time to powder her nose. hopefully these halls will be busy with tourists once again and the not so distant future. else of sports and fresh from winning the world the club world cup in qatar by munich we're back to bundesliga business and straight into a bavarian blizzard monday night and were expected to swat. but the visitors began the match looking much more at home in the conditions. it was a less than more welcome home for biron after they were crowned world champions in the heat of qatar it looked like they'd become a little too used to the middle east and weather as bielefeld caught them cold. made it one nil after just 19 minutes. confidence seemed to intensify
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with the blizzard a most people gave them a tuna lead to take into half. with the pitch cleared for the 2nd half by and looked on sure. made 821140 minutes but bielefeld went code and restored their 2 goal lead a minute later through christine gave the austrian forwards picking a great time to score his 1st been dislike of. such cannot be measured have to liesl to make it 32 just before the aspirant fought back. good work from the winger led to by an equaliser through alfonso davis who rounded off the scoring with 20 minutes to go 33 it finished to leave disappointed faces all run just by an dropped points in the title race and bielefeld blew their chance of a famous victory. streamliner the top story we're following for you here today on the news the u.n. special envoy to myanmar has told the country's military junta that it will face
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quote severe consequences for any crackdown on protesters demonstrating against this month's clue military leaders have cut the internet and deployed troops to quell demonstrations troops in recent days used rubber bullets and sling shots 1st crops. up next it's business with me. i'm terry martin thanks watch. it's about billions. it's an hour. it's about the foundation of the border the new silk road. china wants to expand its
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influence with this trade network.

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