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just don't with the treasure map for modern globetrotters discover some of european wykard breaking sites. also in book form ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. molding is underway in brazil in a highly polarized presidential election left as former president, lula da silva is the front runner. but right wing incumbent president, you're both an arrow has already warned a fraud. and some of his supporters want to use force to keep him in power. also
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coming up indonesia, president orders of prob, and a saturday's deadly riot and stampede at a football stadium. more than 125 people were killed after fans of the losing side storm the pitch. and police responded with tear gas plus ukrainian troops push ahead with their counter offensive. after dealing a major blow to russia, presents, lensky says their forces now fully control the strategic eastern city of leman. ah, i'm marrying a evans dean. it's good to have you with us. we begin in brazil where voting is under way in a presidential election following a bitter and polarized pain. opinion polls give
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a clear advantage to the left is to former president lewis ignacio lula da silva. the far right had come been shot. your bull sanara has indicated that if he's defeated, he might not accept the results. his comments have raised fears that both scenarios to puerto is, might attempt to keep him in power by force. so far voting date seems to be progressing peacefully. with for more were now joined by our correspondent, johan ramirez, who joins us from rio de janeiro get to see you. johan, so we've been hearing, it's been a very bitter campaign. tell us about the atmosphere in rio to day on election day . really is in total come i've been tories the cities since very early in the morning, visit these home for station on i have seen all around real same scene in total peas. i'm actually if you, if you didn't know brazil is holding
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a presidential election. today's, you wouldn't suspect it. this is like an every day sunday morning now the beginning of the afternoon here in rio de janeiro. i haven't seen long lines in the posts. they shows to us. usually i see now like sundays in other countries in latin america, but it is not necessarily linked it to abstention. that's room. remember that brazil is the largest democracy in latin america with more than 156000000 voters. so that's why there are hundreds of thousands of poles stations all around the country. precisely to avoid non lines on to make the process moves faster. so opinion polls suggest that lula could win the election out. right. why does the leftist former president appeal to so many voters because of the economy,
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is electra campaign. there are other issues that are important as well, such as the pandemic corruption, the security. but the economies at the heart of the political debate on people are now concerned about how the next administration got cancelled. they daily problems such as poverty, unemployment, bryce in price us a few land energy arising prices of food and they seizure both on our us a fade to president on the opposite. they see low leather silva as an opportunity to establish a government based on saw, shall each of variable scenario defense himself saying that he had a very difficult administration because of the pandemic. and that's why he now needs 4 more years in order to offer solutions to brazilians. well, in both scenario has also said is that if he loses this election, he may not accept the results. how worried are people that his supporters would try to keep him in office using force?
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as i said, brazilians, actually, i was surprised because before coming here to rio, i, everybody was talking about the possibility of a coo and the concerns that brazilians, that the brazil's democracy could be at stake. but when you get here and you talk to brazilians, their concerns is, as i said, economy poverty inequalities. so there are a lot of concerns about it is more that experts or international organizations on it is not a something i mean, valuable scenario has hinted once on again that he wouldn't leave power if he loses the cookies. sure. he has the votes enough to win. now was definitely his correspond and johan ramirez, reporting from rio. yon. thank you so very much tuned anita. now where present joke. o widow has ordered a probe into saturday's deadly ride and stampede at a football stadium. fans of the losing team storm the page after the game ended and
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police fired tear gas triggering the crush. a vigil has been held for the 125 people who died. the death toll was revised down after earlier reports put the figure even higher. many others were injured and the disaster said to be one of the worst ever at a stadium or indonesia, correspondent garrick motus filed this report about the tragic events and my long on the island of java. silence on the soccer pitch the day after the ma lung stadium disaster. all of this has now become evidence in a desperate investigation of how things could get so out of hand outside the hospitals, in my lung, in the province of east java. hundreds of people are searching for their loved ones like this father. he can't find his 18 year old daughter. so far, i've been through 3 hospitals. i can't reach her. maybe the phone is on low
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battery. i also can't reach her boyfriend. the tragedy unfolded the night before when frustrated supporters of the losing home team invaded the pitch throwing bottles and other items. police officers fire to tear gas triggering a stampede. the world suckers governing body pfeffer prohibits tear gas in or near stadiums. the local police chief declined to answer our questions about the event. ah, what's clear is that the stadium was filled beyond capacity. 42000 tickets for a venue made to hold. 38000 spectators. hospitals are now struggling to care for scores of injured. oh, initially we received 93 patients, now 12 a left 5 with serious head injuries and 4 in critical condition. the rest on the way to recover helena's. they have been outbreaks of violence at matches in
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indonesia before but not at the scale. the president has now suspended the league until further notice demanding a detailed investigation in what is one of modern histories worse stadium disasters? let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. german defense minister, christina lambert, i says, germany will deliver for state of the art air defense systems to ukraine. within days. the comments came during a surprise trip to odessa her 1st visit since the war began. in addition to supplementing air defense and germany will also deliver 16 mo bile heavy artillery systems in partnership with denmark and norway. supporters of burkina, faso, self declared new leader abraham tri rory have taken to the streets in the capitol . this follows the toppling of haunt a liter paul unread amoeba. by junior army officers. the crew has spar concern
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among world powers as the region battles a growing islamist insurgency. the taliban have dispersed a women's protest in western afghanistan. it's the 2nd day of protest following a suicide bombing at a study hall in kabul, which left dozens of people dead. most of them women from the she ain't, has ara community. bosnians have headed to the polls for a general election mar and by ethnic tensions. and threats of succession, voters are casting balance for the countries complex. a 3 way presidency. motor turnout has been low so far. and nationalist parties are expected to remain dominant. ukrainian forces are pushing ahead with their counter offensive after recapturing a key eastern town from russia. the ukrainian military says has struck several russian command posts and ammunition depos moscow's defense. ministry is also claiming to have destroyed ukrainian weapons. depos,
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president zalinski says lee mon and the eastern dentist region has been quote, fully cleared of russian troops who retreated from the town on saturday. a video shared by ukrainian police appears to show their forces tearing down russian flags . on. meanwhile, us defense minister lloyd austin said, ukraine's victory and lemon would be as strategic a headache for russia as it seeks to hold off the counter offensive elsewhere. we are very encouraged by what we're saying right now. we're and sits astride the supply lines of the, of the russians, and they've used those routes to, to, to push men and material down to the south to the west. and without those routes, it'll be more difficult. so it's presents. that's sort of a dilemma for, for the russians going forward. do you believe corresponded in the connelly and t of told me that the loss of li mom is
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a major blow to russian president vladimir putin? not only is it a crucial strategic point in terms of the logistics of russia's invasion of ukraine's. we heard from lord austin there it was about the optics and the timing. you know, this is just a day after a couple of days after this huge event in moscow on the kremlin with vladimir putin saying that russia is here to stay, that russia is not gonna budge. and he, we, he, we've seen, you know, the opposite being proved. we've seen, you crank successfully rolling back for some control pulling down russian flags pulling down signs and co symbols of the kind of russian takeover. and this is, this is a little yeske region. so this is the reason that russia now claims as its own and you, ukraine, is actually able to create facts on the grounds. this is a very big deal. and you know, it potentially with few more weeks to go before the winter, really sets in and fighting those more difficult as the real prospect of ukraine heading towards those cities over to the next, the chance which were basically russia's only big wind of the summer. russia
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invested thousands of lives and a lot of technology is capturing those cities at, you know, very, very slow pace. now ukraine's within striking distance is really we launched a wave of soul searching in russia. she's much kristen for the russian military leadership, black pewter, under a lot of pressure, even people who are in favor of this invasion of ukraine and a sense that even rushes mobilization of tens and hundreds of thousands of civilians is not actually having effect yet. and you can really on a roll. so, nick, what do we know about russia's military strategy? what are they likely to do next? well, the fair hearing here is that given these failures on the battlefield, given russia inability to really change its tactics to deal with all the western equipment that ukraine is getting. they are going to increasingly focus their attention on civilian infrastructure and basically try and make life as difficult as possible for as many claims they can. the sooner thing is that in the middle of this war, you're here and key. if you still have that functioning perfectly, you have electricity, you have gas, have all the kind of basics of modern civilization. and the expectation is that
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russia will try and make life so uncomfortable, that the ukrainian population put pressure on its leaders to end this war on russia's terms. so that's really the thing that people are expecting to w as in a colony connelly reporting from here. thank you so much. in the united states, the death toll of hurricane ian has increased to more for a dozen. most of those in florida. the storm also devastated cuba, where residents are only now seeing power restored to their homes. 5 days after the hurricane and knocked out electricity across the entire island, rescue teams on a mission to find survivors. they've already taken dozens of florida residents to safety. many homes have been completely destroyed. but in some areas, residents have come back to pick up. the pieces i knew was going to be
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bad by. i didn't know i was like going to lose everything from the gulf of mexico to the atlantic. ian has left a path of destruction across florida. hundreds of people have been rescued, but many more are stranded. and more than a 1000000 are off the grit. i mean look around or lose nothing. we have no power, no phone service lovelyn. so we just like little help. god like little help. oh, good, my home bergen shave because i don't know where to go. before humbling florida. ian plunged all of cuba into darkness after crippling the islands power network. o electricity is gradually returning, but many are angry because their homes are still without power. well, i believe we have had no electricity for 4 days, but in other places there is electricity. what should we do? we just want electricity. i had to throw out all of my food today because i did not
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have anywhere to store it. don, this hurricane season started out slow, but as heated, our mobile home meteorologists have forecast as many as 8 similar storms by the end of november. and methylated on dw news, this our up next is our documentary series, with a look at the reclusive himalayan kingdom of baton, a marion evans dean. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines for you, for me and the entire news team here in berlin. thanks for the company. how did she become at off hitler's favorite director? and how did he become a forgotten so player lineage.

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