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i sat up with destiny for space, starts more, jason on d w a. ah dw news live from berlin. i don't train collision in greece, kills at least 38 people. recent prime minister says human error likely caused a passenger train and free trade to collide and burst into flames between athens and testimony. dozens of passengers are injured and the death toll is likely to climb us on the program. a will divide it over the war and ukraine comes together
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in india. foreign ministers of june 20 nations meet and deli, today with opponents of russia's war, hoping to convince, pulled up to condemn moscow, aggression and bullet to nubile is declared the winner of nigeria presidential election. but opposition party say that the vote was a sham and demanding a re run. ah, i'm aaron tilton. welcome to the program. great prime minister cutty ac was me taco mit meets. i talkies says human error likely caused his nations worst rail disaster in memory. at least 38 people were killed in the head, untrained collision, most of them on a passenger train from athens. just a lonely keep that struck a freight train more than 70 others were injured. authorities have arrested
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a stationmaster in the nearby city of larissa, and greece's transport minister has resigned. no, demonstrators are demanding answers. it was just before midnight when the 2 trains collided. authority se both were traveling on the same track for several calamities before hitting each other. had on at high speed the force of the impact was so strong that the front to carriage is that the passenger train, who almost completely destroyed while several others were derailed and engulfed in flames. emergency teams and rescue crews worked through the night. and in the thick smoke, searching for survivors scouring each broken carriage by torchlight for signs of life. and the bodies of those killed in the crash, many of whom a thought to be university students. around 350 people were aboard the service from
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athens to the northern city of felony key. at the time. those who escaped with their lives describe the chaos. when the 2 trains collided. but am i got obama? we heard a big bang like it was 10 nightmarish seconds, unable to get it, and were thrown around in the wagon, eventually falling on our side. so some of the commotion stopped. then there was panic cables everywhere. amazon has one of course go over, the fire was everywhere like it wasn't able to get as we're rolling. we were burning. fire was everywhere. that the vehicle. yes, we landed a fire up did right next to was this man his or whole. we managed to get out through their own we were specialist equipment has now been deployed to how clear the deborah and the greek prime minister who lay to visited the scene as bow to find out what happened
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above with what we are experiencing to day. his very, very difficult as a country olivia, we are talking about an unspeakable tragedy from my thoughts a day, a 1st and foremost with the relatives of the victims. from what our duty is to treat the wounded. and from there to identify the bodies. cooper and the one thing i can guarantee is we will find out the causes of this tragedy. and we will do everything in our power to make sure it never happens again. because we rebooted, the government has announced 3 days of national morning as the investigation gets under way into what caused this crash has already been described as the worst train accidents in greek history. so were there any warning signs before this
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crash? a potential safety issues in the big railway system. we put that question to miss ios cody's, director of the highly foundation, think tank, and it's a lonely q. unfortunately, one cannot say that this was completely unexpected. it said from the very beginning, the largest part of a room for possible doings and a system is using a ton of traffic lights. this is also one of the reasons why. in february, the european commission decided to refer to the horror fane, a single man. we are active and i mean, just right now with the fact that it was fired,
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2017. the national company was sold for just 4 to 5 years back, and then a lot of major reforms, not a lot of the major investment company ever since. and today, really with the market for the country development, 19th century with failures, as is not only fee to carry large number passengers i q i qx seen safety, but it's also carrying just one percent of the going through the country each year. so with miss alice cody's from the highest foundation thinktank and testimony he's speaking to d w a little earlier there. let's take
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a look now at some other news headlines from around the world. police in tel aviv have you stun grenades and water cannon against protesters opposing a planned overhaul of israel's justice system. the protest was block roads and rail lines and what they called a nationwide day of disruption. critics say that the land reforms will weaken the world, the supreme court and undermine democracy. and he was intelligence report on the mysterious vanna syndrome concludes that the illness was unlikely to have been caused by a foreign adversary. the name was 1st given to symptoms reported by us officials in the cuban capital in 2016, many believe could have been due to an attack tick tock as announced. it will introduce an automatic 60 minute daily time limit for all users over the age of 18 . tick tock and other social media platforms are facing increasing security and scrutiny over their impact on teens. but young users will still be able to turn off the default setting. for ministers from the g 20 states are gathering in india,
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which heads up the group of 20 this year. the meeting is expected to be dominated by russia's invasion of ukraine and the economic problems created by the war. your secretary state anthony blinking already declared that he has no plans to meet his russian or chinese counterparts with the tent. he told reporters on wednesday that he expected the majority of the g 20 to continue to stand against russia's war. but tensions of russia's invasion are threatening to divide the g 20 states into rival blocks. more than a year into the war in ukraine. the conflict is bogged down. western leaders have made isolating russia a priority. but has it worked? this is russia's foreign minister with his indian counterpart ahead of the g. 20 meeting in delhi trade between russia and india has boomed since the war began. it's hardly an outlier. russia is exploring long held frustrations with the west to
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build new alliances. the u. s. in europe have passed multiple rounds of sanctions on russia, but a failed to get critical countries like china and india on board. the war has also created food insecurity in many countries. and not everyone blames russia. many people blame the sanctions regime. and russia has pressed for more military cooperation with countries like china and south africa, expanding its arm, trade, and participating in joint military drills, the bricks, group of countries, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa all have complicated relationships with washington and europe as do other countries in the middle east and africa, many see the ukraine war as a european problem, that the u. s. and it's western allies have turn into a global problem. they say the u. s. is being hypocritical, given its support for dictatorships in the past and anger over centuries of
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european colonialism is still very much alive around the world. with the outcome of the war still unclear. it's hard to say what will happen to this shifting world order, but the longer the war drags on, the more likely it seems. the divisions will harden dylan's parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of the country joining the western needle military alliance . the decisions and decades of finishing quality came out of the russian invasion of ukraine. but finland still has a few hurtles to clear before its membership can come into effect. members did of you corresponded to result in brussels, explains finished parliament has just given its final approval to the country, joining nato. an overwhelming show of support at a $184.00 votes in favor and just 7 against what has to happen next is for finished president. sell the meanest o to sign the exception protocol. and then for it to be deposited in washington after which time a finished flag can go up at nato headquarters. if another 2 things happen 1st and
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those have to take place in budapest and on kara, hungary and turkey are the only remaining allies that have not approved finish in swedish membership. the hungarians haven't said so much about why they've been lagging behind, but the turkish government has been very explicit saying the nordic countries are too soft on kurdish groups. that president wretch at tie an air to one considers enemies, especially the p k. k, which is considered a terrorist organization in all european countries. of course, finland and sweden included. but in suite, in this group is very visible, holding demonstrations flying its flags and so air to one is not willing to let sweet enjoined nato until it does more to stop this. finland, meanwhile, air to one says may just be allowed to join in the near future. and so while the swedish government is not at all happy about this and does not want to be left behind, this is in fact what we're likely to see possibly in the next few weeks. that was
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due to the correspondence. terry schultz reporting from brussels. nigeria electoral commission has declared bullet to nubile president elect. he was the candidate of the ruling. all progressive congress party to nubile 18800000 votes, but turn out was just 29 percent. with technical glitches undermining trust in the voting process of the labor party led by peter or b, one just over 6000000 votes as it will mount a legal challenge against the results. holding the official result enough to a jubilant crowd, bola made to new booth the declared winner of the nigerian presidential election after a highly disputed vote. the man known as the godfather of lagos is a long time political kingmaker. he led a campaign with the slogan, it's my turn. addressing his supporters on to the result, he portrayed himself as a unifier. well then
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i will long. i know not everyone is convinced the opposition labor party plans to legally challenge to new booth when it is all position that the po porter, the results did not meet the minimum criteria of a transparent free and for election. in addition to the most condom noble i tux wireless water, intimidation of suppression, the election was conducted in class by a vision of agreed on promise. i mc rules and guidelines. the uncertainty is also shared by some on the streets. modeling positions, would you advise who were wise that he thought o mode?
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so no opinion a thing be issued to the issue. where did she do do that? she would be the lecture on, does it? i would say about them. it wasn't a free and you know, february says because he was obviously rigged in every speech. becoming president has been a lifelong ambition for to neighbors. but he may now have to wait for the courts to have the say. this is d, w. news live from berlin, and here's a quick reminder of the top stories were falling for you at this hour. greece is prime minister says human error is the likely cause of the countries worst rail disaster and memory. at least 30 people are dead after a passenger train collided head on with a freight train. late tuesday, police have arrested a station master. the greek transportation minister has resigned. and foreign ministers from the g 20 states are gathering in india. the median is expected to be dominated by russia's invasion of ukraine to the economic problems
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