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this is t w news coming to you live from butters deliver a blow to germany's conservative support perchance for uncle michael c.d.u. slumps into state elections this following mass procurement scandals involving party members we take a look at how the results could affect the national elections later this year also coming up. dozens are killed in myanmar while defying the army's crackdown on dissent in one of the deadliest
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days since the military coup activists planned more democracy rallies even as parts of yangon are placed under martial law. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us to regional elections victories for the greens and the social democrats but everyone is talking about the losers not the winners chance christian democrats suffered significant poll losses in 2 southwestern states on sunday the ballots kickoff a year of voting in germany culminating in national elections in september chancellor merkel is not running again now her party's worried that sunday's results are a bad omen of things to come we'll speak to our chief political editor in a moment but 1st a look at how sunday's voting unfolded. top officials in the c.d.u. didn't tiny to their disappointment. to put it bluntly this is not
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a good election evening for the c.d.u. we would have wished for different and better results in the baton vote in burke and ryan and a lot and in state election. coverage in contrast the greens were celebrating their victory in baton burton. this is just a super start to this major election year and we will hopefully be able to capitalize on this momentum from baton gothenburg and rhinelander platen it's going forward. the s.p.d. with 3rd in baton vote in berg and secured a convincing win in rhinelander a lot in it something the party leadership thinks has clear implications for germany's upcoming federal elections the tradition results give a clear indication of governing coalition could be formed in germany without the c.d.u. launched this gives us momentum for the federal election and potentially so getting into the chancellor's office and subsequent and national government without the
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c.d.u. that would be a massive political shift the party was already under pressure following a corruption scandal involving conservative politicians profiting from facemask procurement deals and sense of knowledge of. chancellor angela merkel has said she will step down at the end of her current term her popularity has helped the c.d.u. wind power in the last 4 federal elections but the conservatives have yet to decide on who will be their candidate for chancellor in september. more now from the w.'s chief political editor mikhail a cosigner they kill up their cause party has taken a hit in 2 stable actions why. well 1st of all because the candidate threw around that and once again became state primaries were simply over the popular both the green candidate by the vote back when it collapsed fine and if the d. candidates model dry who actually went so much against the trend with the social
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democrats struggling to be in double digit figures and she takes home an election so that's quite remarkable so none of this is the political rule here but it shows everybody what is thinkable also when it comes to general elections that the greens can be way stronger than predicted and that it's by no means a given that the period after until america will even include her party at the federal level was talk about the what does yesterday's vote mean for that general election later this year coming up in september. but means that i'm going to machall c.d.u. party have to do their homework and that means better performance when it comes to corona did play a role that wasn't the overarching issue here it deep to clean up its act when it comes to its own m.p.'s some of whom had to step down after being implicated in taking money for ranging deals on masks in the midst of
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a pandemic here in germany and they need to make clear who their chancellor candidate will be and here who only recently become became party leader is still seen as a front runner but clearly has now taken a hit in recent elections is by no and is by no means as popular generally as marcos from bavaria so that could be a very very tough race there in this in a party struggle within the conservative block became a thank you so much to w.'s chief political editor mechanic of the. sketch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today thousands of people are rallying in canberra and other australian cities following calling for an end to violence against women the march for justice movement is demanding a public investigation into sexual misconduct in australia's parliament it follows a series of rape allegations against politicians and staffers. written more
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demonstrations in london against violence toward women this time in front of the police headquarters anger was sparked by the heavy handed police response to an earlier vigil in memory of sara everard a police officer has been accused of of her kidnapping and murder. it's been a weekend of violence and killing in myanmar as protests continue against the military coup shots were fired at protesters in yangon where dozens of people were reported killed by security forces more deaths were reported in other parts of the country it brings the death toll to more than $100.00 since the f.a.q. demonstrations began state media are reporting that martial law has been declared in some areas despite threats protesters say they will continue their resistance. a group of protesters charged the well armed military jointer on the streets of
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young go on armed with just sticks a knife the result tragic sunday's one of the bloodiest days of protests in me and since the military coup began reports suggest dozens of protesters died state run media said a police officer was also killed in the clashes and announced that the military was declaring martial law in 2 young gone townships. the state administrative council gives the younger one regional command administrative and judicial martial law power over the to tell ships and young going region this will enable the young military command to enforce security in force the rule of law and ensure tranquillity more effectively. the move came after china called on me and mine to protect chinese interests and people in the country after reports to chinese financed businesses was set on fire by unknown attack is many protesters believe
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china is giving support to the me and my military. off to 6 weeks of demonstrations protest is refused to give up despite the obvious threat to their own safety in many fields oh it to those who have already died. but. i saw the fallen heroes give their lives i don't want them to think that i'm afraid and just want to stay at home i'm going out on the streets as a citizen and as a woman so that i can stand on the side of justice. i need you. to put the death toll drastically rising it's hard to say how long these protesters will be able to hold out. let's get the latest from journalist andrew not concerned he is in young gone andrew security forces are using lethal force there more and more around 40 people were reported killed in the latest crackdown what do
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you impact is this having on the protest movement well 'd yesterday was the deadliest day of crackdowns so far and these increasing massacres are kind of having that dual effect yes they're making protesters more scared to go out on the street but they're also making people angry or degree or were increasingly seeing protesters are with swords and other weapons so i think these lethal crackdowns are going to have the effect of turning what was peaceful protests into people actually starting to fight back. ok the ousted civilian leader aung san suu chief she was pushed out by this she's due in court today what can we expect there. these hearings aren't. super transparent but the last time she was in court she got hit with 2 new charges and i think that that's definitely a distinct possibility today she's been accused of corruption but not formally
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charged so i think a big thing to watch for today is whether or not the court introduces new charges for corruption. ok and china is a player here china is myanmar's neighbor to the north hugely influential in the country what role is china playing in this conflict so there are a lot of protesters who believe that china directly supported the coup i think that's very unlikely just because i don't like stability bear their business interests are threatened by the political chaos gripping the country right now but certainly i think the protesters are right to believe that china should be doing more to put pressure on the junta they've basically said you know this is an internal affair and kind of taken a step back and i think if china were to apply more pressure it probably could be productive in solving the political crisis andrew thank you very much that was
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journalist andrew in young thank you. now prizes have been handed out at the u.s. music industry's annual grammy awards performances took place in a mostly empty arena in los angeles with fans watching from outside the un say broke the record for the most grammy wins by a female artist she appeared on stage with megan t. stallion to claim their shared prize for best rap song last year's big winner billie eilish picked up another prize for her song everything i wanted. and they want to see is the only club with a chance of. consecutive title leipzig was hoping for a win at home against frankfurt but they only managed a draw it was their 2nd set in recent days. after they were dumped out of the
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champions league by liverpool in midweek leipzig were hoping to avoid the dreaded european hangover and rack up yet another been does legal win to keep their title challenge on track after a goal is 1st half the hosts got off to a flyer in the 2nd annual forsberg meeting one mil. the swedes 6 the season made him the club's joint top scorer of a strangely modest campaign in front of goal. has been built on defense that shipped the fewest goals of any bindis league a say going into this one but frankfurt phoned away through. japanese international daichi come out of meeting $11.00 just after the hour mark. then had the best chance to win the match in 67 minutes but it showed that frank olsen with the 2 of them defending much do you see who seems to smi. $11.00 it finished like 6 winning run is over. their championship chances haven't disappeared with it.
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in sunday's late game stuttgart gave their european ambitions a boost with a win over visiting team hoffenheim the hosts took the lead after 15 minutes as the unfortunate cussing turned the ball into his own net. guaranteed to specter in the 2nd half scoring for his 7th game in a row to equal the club record which cost and now just 4 points away from the european qualification places. so as take a look at all the bundesliga results so far this weekend as we saw beat hoffenheim true with the frankfurt stunned labor cruzan on saturday by in munich easily beat braman dortmund defeated how to berlin or demolished last place shaka berlin beach cologne and mind stuff past briber on friday were downed mention.
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now is check out on his latest standings after match day 255 munich gaining ground on leipsic in the title race dortmund move up at the expense of labor coups and further down the felde escape the relegation zone while head to berlin sink into it minds and shall bring up the rear. wallah is celebrating a milestone birthday earning a spot in the guinness book world records as the oldest of her species in the cat in captivity but not in the country you might expect from a dory turning 24 years old on sunday as the equivalent of 110 human years that call his birthday was marked in a zoo in japan where majority has lived for almost 2 decades despite her age dorie can still climb trees and has a healthy appetite for eucalyptus leaves. you're watching
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news up next world stories where we look at the world's 1st court case over state sponsored torture in syria i'm terry marshall thanks for watching. everybody this for us and for our planet. gloom ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make city street or how can we protect animals and their habitats what to do with all our waste. we can make a difference by choosing reforestation over deforestation.

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