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companies and countries, are we thinking everything and making make changes? you've reviewed this week on d. w. now. ah, this is d w. news line from berlin. new violence amid runs ongoing protests. ah gunfire in screen so heard on social media. as observers report large scale government military action in
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a kurdish city in the countries west. a breakthrough at the un climate summit in egypt, delegates agree that rich country should pay poor an insurance for the damage caused by global warming. but many worry about what doesn't do. and the 2022 world cup kicks off today in cat are with fans arriving the controversial event is beginning to resemble a normal turn him ah a michael ok. welcome to the program, rights groups are reporting that iran is carrying out a major crackdown and the kurdish town of ma bought the town has seen intense anti regime protests in recent days, with people staging sit ins and setting up barricades.
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ah, video deleted on social media. overnight gunfire and screaming can be heard. another clip shared by an exiled kurdish opposition party claims to show plain clothes, members of the revolutionary guard firing into the sky. activists say electricity has been cut and there are unconfirmed reports of protesters being killed or wounded to news on the cop 27 climate talks in egypt. now some $200.00 countries have signed on to a historic deal to pay for the effects of climate change. the marathon discussions ended with a deal to create a fun to compensate poor countries for damage. they have already suffered from climate change. the fun covers what negotiators call loss and damage. but many
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delegates are worried about what the deal doesn't include. it's a historic deal with ramifications for the planet thrashed out by exhausted delegates. after weeks of negotiation at the climate talks in egypt, today's units or lashes, we established the 1st ever dedicated fund for awesome damage of home that has been so long in the making. the funds would pay more money to poor nations, which have already experienced destruction and death from droughts and extreme storms made more frequent and intense by global warming. and these poor countries have contributed the least to emissions of the gases that are causing temperatures to increase weld wide like pakistan where floods killed many hundreds this year. the new fund is the result of years of campaigning by
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developing nations. we have struggled for 30 years on the spot and to day in shambles. shock this journey has achieved its 1st positive milestone. the establishment of a fund is not about dispensing charity. it is clearly a down payment on the longer investment in our joint futures. it is a down payment and an investment in climate justice. but as some delegates celebrate, crucial details is still not decided like exactly which richer countries will pay in to the fund and how big those payments could be. and there was little progress on tougher cuts to carbon emissions. the gas is produced by burning fossil fuels that a driving climate change. big historic emitters of carbon dioxide warmed the
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even previous pledges to cut emissions are at risk. this is the make or break decades. but what we have in front of us is not enough of a step forward for people in planet. it does not bring enough added efforts for major images to increase and accelerate their emissions cuts. it does not bring a high, a degree of confidence that we will achieve the commitments made on the bow, screams and in glasgow last year. it does not address the yawning gap between climate science and our climbed policies. many delegates left the conference voicing the same concern that time is running out and if you will, kindly bear with us, we want to go back to our top story rights groups are reporting that iran is carrying out a major crackdown in the kurdish town of ma bought for more mock mood,
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a barry mo, dom co founder of the indio. iran human rights is joining us from right here in berlin. mahmoud. what are you hearing from sources about the situation in ma but yet, so the yesterday evening, the large number of military long cars, military hearing machine. ready gun deny treat you in just a moment. you don't have any casualties. anything major, very concerned. it might result in budgeting. do we know anything about the scale of the government
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operation in the city at this point? what did the inflammation numbers of they were large so it so it is also believe that the running are trying to mate the iran where all the countries being the routine to conduct. ready the been that long or campaign of information. this information that mike, there are there on throughout the ordinary. i think you said facial alert, spreading fear, keeping people in a so on 300 i think the the region 14 the region in about the 45 seconds we have
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left. give us a little bit of perspective. how strong is the opposition against iranian authorities in kurdish dominated areas? always been very strong because in iranian regime, there was a small the run in society to ruling the old country and refreshing, that there has been much store even stronger than the rest of the country. and that best buy positions or so be here. very brave . and i think, you know, some of the crisis in their own country so they are trying to do whatever they can to
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a change. ready it's going to be change and they are going to do what they are by. and so we are concerned that they might even start smaller or, you know, iraq or just mentioned the way the what i would say revolution going iraq understood that was a mum, would a memory mod done many, many thanks, here's a look now, some of the other stories making news around the world. police in the us state of colorado and say 5 people were killed in 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in colorado springs. a suspect. he's in custody and a statement. the club thank to customers for reacting quickly to subdue the gunman . donald trump's twitter account has been reinstated, after slim majority of users supported the move in a poll held by the platforms,
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new owner, ellen musk. trump was banned in january 2021 for inciting violence in relation to the u. s. capital ryan. the former u. s. president earlier said he had no interest in returning to twitter. turkey says it has launched air strikes across northern syria and northern iraq targeting the military bases of kurdish militants. a war monitor says at least 12 people were killed. the strikes come days after the turkish government blame the critics down workers party for a deadly bombing in central is stumble. the international atomic energy agency confirms that the russian controlled ukrainian nuclear power plant in upper regia was shelled on saturday evening and sunday morning. there were more than a dozen explosions in the area, the ukrainian utility nugget. tom reports at least 12 hits on the power plants
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infrastructure. the damaged devices indicated that the attackers attacked and disabled infrastructure used for power generation d w 's. john phillip schultz is in key and i asked him about those explosions reported around europe largest nuclear power facility. yes, we have also heard about those reports, but they seem to refer to the area around the nuclear power plant and not a to the premises of the power plant itself. russian forces have been accusing ukraine all morning of selling the region, but those could be fake news. those could be even false flag attacks as we have seen many times in the past month. i think what we have to do is we have to wait about more information from the international atomic energy agency that is monitoring the situation very closely at the moment. want to bring up another point
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here. ukrainian authorities are now saying some 700 bodies, almost all of them civilians, by the way, have been discovered in newly liberated areas. more evidence, they claim of russian atrocities. what do you know? yes, it's probably too early to speak about concrete numbers, and a lot of this information coming out of the liberated areas is still unconfirmed. but indeed, ukraine's prosecutor general just said that they discovered hundreds of dead bodies in the past 4 weeks, mainly civilians. and he also spoke about dozens of facilities were civilians were allegedly illegally detained. some colleagues for just returned from affairs on the city that was liberated about a week ago. and they have endless stories of maltreatment of civilians and even of
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alleged torture chambers in the area. but just like in boucher and or pin and the other places in the past months, it will still take a while until we get the full picture. what really happened and the recently liberated areas and asia d. w. 's. yon phillips shots in keep many thanks you sir. the football world cup begins to day in cat r, while the tournament has been a lightning rod for criticism due to labor in human rights conditions in the host country fans from around the world have still been flooding into the gulf state. so the question is, will the most controversial world comp in history feel just like all the other world caught, once play is under way. these scenes are familiar to any one who's seen a world cup football, france from around the globe, arriving at a host nation in mass, ready to cheer on their country. oh,
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in for the fans that have made the journey to katara the excitement, it's palpable. mo, most resinous brazilians are really into this world cup. i think this cup is really going to surprise every one to bring the approves. but this world cup is unlike any other guitars. human rights and labor abuses have made it the most controversial world cup in history. something that fans have to reckon with, even if they hope the tournament can have a positive impact. it's gonna bring a lot of going through the country and cruel people to see that that, that he's not on the controversy because there's been a lot of issues with the working after 12 years of arduous prep, the guitar world cup is here and so are the fans fif recently announced nearly 3000000 tickets more than 90 percent of those available have already been sold for many, the world cup still fulfills its role as a global party, bringing people together. that's the point of the world cup to get all the
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countries together. and share cultures, chair customs, and while a last minute decision to ban the sale of alcohol at stadiums might mean beer is a bit harder to find than at past tournaments. for many, it's starting to feel ever more like a world cup. whether that impression holds or pressure on feel free to tar over human rights issues persist, could dictate this tournaments legacy. you watching d. w news line from berlin, coming up next sports life profiles driven ski jumpers. selena fry, top a michael oak, who invalid. thanks for watching with a she's got any issues with all say what grade he will be able to.

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