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it would take more than a 100 years to completely dispose of all this best. those containers use here. i found him and tell you the never ending story of asbestos starts june 21st on dw the . this is dw news live from berlin. officials say a wrong signal lived in d as deadly as railway disaster and decades. authorities are investigating a human error or cause a signal change that sent a high speed train off course, killing almost 300 people. also coming up, hundreds of thousands,
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riley against the right wing government in poland. critics accused the ruling party of turning its back on democracy. the opposition is mobilizing voters for upcoming elections. and all i've shown caused blood in their, posing a war monger. as the german chancellor bounced a robust defensive as ukraine policy in the face of an antique war. hecklers the next by sir, welcome to the program. officials in india say an incorrect signal was the likely cause of a rail accident that killed almost 300 people on friday. investigators are checking whether human error caused a signal change that sent a high speed train onto the wrong track. india as railway ministers, as the people responsible have been identified. families of the victims are still
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searching for their loved ones in hospitals and works at this make shift morgue near the crash sites. a solemn scene is playing out. relatives gather to go through pictures and the bodies of those pulled from rail cars, trying to find loved ones killed in india's worst rail disaster. in decades, initial figures put the number at more than $280.00 dead, but that total is expected to rise. survivors of the train accident are being treated at nearby hospitals and clinics. the government is promising to compensate the injured as well as those who have lost family members. some here are dealing with the trauma of both 55 year old cuz she to dice watched her only daughter died in the crash. as the
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rail car kept rolling, my daughter got stuck. she got buried under bulky iron right in front of my eyes. i managed to stand in a corner, but i was hitting the head by some iron road or something. i thought about how to get my daughter out, but i don't know how to move such heavy iron. my daughter kept crying and died right in front of my eyes. the, with the rescue and recovery effort officially over heavy machines such as cranes and excavators have been brought in to untangle and clear the mangled rail cars. so travel can resume along this stretch of india's rail system. an official investigation is underway to determine the cause of the crash. initial reports suggest a signaling error may have led to the 3 way collision involving 2 passenger trains and a stationary freight train. while india has invested heavily in the system in recent years, it hasn't been enough to overcome decades of neglect. this latest crashes renewed,
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longstanding concerns about safety on one of the busiest rail systems in the world . and dw south asia bureau chief, i read a cima is following the story. she has more details about what officials are saying about the cause of the crash. the really administered was after cited today. and you said the initial findings from the rebate commission report is that this was caused by a fluid and will be described as an electronic interlocking system. this is the system which links the sickness to the track of this obviously mass function in some way. and therefore, you have this, what people are describing ones freak accidents involving treat cream or not still not clear with a dis malfunction was due to human error, or it was a technical issue. but that is what is being investigated at the moment. meanwhile, the green green has started the opposite. she wants the government to take
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accountability for this tragedy, asking for the really minister to be to resign with this accident. and this will still be disturbing on the 4th, which is cannot be seen the last year. they was a report stable, it's finally been talking about huge concerns about really safety. the questions will be off what happened to the report? why was this concerns taken seriously? what are the people who lost a lot wants to people who are looking for the last ones who disappeared? well, i'm missing the scores counseling because they just have to read and see what the final investigation would say. that was the w's. i'm ready to cima reporting from delhi. i'm re to thank you so much. in poland. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in the capital, warsaw to voice their anger at the country's right wing populous government. opposition leaders are mobilizing against the law and justice party, which they accuse of eroding democracy as well as taken over the media and to the
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judiciary. riley also marks the 34th anniversary of poland 1st, postwar democratic election, and the end of communist rule. parliamentary elections are due within months and for more on this we can speak now to a journalist, matthew de, who joins us from warsaw. a matthew, this is a relatively big protest, isn't it? why the huge turn out a good evening. well, you have a number of factors. festival, the current government has another being 30 popular with certain groups within 30 society. they have questing dest, democratic credentials. for a long, long time. you have economics as well. poland has struggled with a very high inflation rate. this year, and that is it. many polls in the book is quite hard. and the 3rd factor you have is that the government recently introduced the law that you actually came into
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effect this week. which will establish a commission to investigate or alleged russian interference in pro just politics or influence imperative politics. and many people in the opposition believe this is a deliberate attempt to target members of the top target leaders of the opposition, particularly don't want to skip on the prime minister because the commission will help that. how this current form to find people from the public office, if they have some form of leg. so to being under the influence of rock of old russia, i back to the center line, both ringing within post politics. all right, forgive me for the interruption. you were saying it's a relatively unpopular government, is it getting even less popular now? is that what this demonstration is showing us? well, the us, the current government has, was the purchase coming has faced many protests in the past. something very big as
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well. and it is, it is always managed to weather the storm and, but at the moment and it still leaves and opinion impose that the lead is waning now. and opinion polls show that it might be very hard pushed to establish a majority in the thirty's pinewood. so it is feeling under pressure the moment and some excellence believe that this russian influence build a commission bill is a way of trying to fight back to try and push, put the pressure on the opposition again. but the other, as i said before, this coming as whether it's stones in the possibly putting it couldn't puppy weather them again o k, matthew de reporting for us for more. so thank you so much for that insight. okay, now here's a look at some more stories making headlines around the world. the police in hong kong have detained scores of people marking the 34th anniversary of the tenant men
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square massacre. when chinese soldiers opened fire and peaceful pro, democracy protesters and aging in 2020 china impose the security law in hong kong. effectively banning memorial events, chinese and american war ships have had a near miss. in the taiwan straits chinese ships sped up and then cut off the us destroyer with less than a 140 meters between the 2 barrels. tension between badging and washington has escalated, in recent months of over self governing taiwan. the governor of russia's belgrade regions says he is willing to meet a group of pro ukraine fighters who are holding to russian soldiers captive. the group said they would release the soldiers if the governor agreed to talks to anti government. russian groups have claimed responsibility for several recent cross border attacks inside russia. a 2 story residential building near the ukrainian
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city of the pro has been destroyed by a suspected russian missile strike. officials say 13 people were injured including 3 children. several people are missing, rescue teams are searching for survivors. here in germany, a video has gone viral, showing chance their old life shows in a rare outburst of anger shouting of protesters who attacked his government's military support for ukraine. shows that a gathering of his party near berlin when a group of protesters disrupted his speech, shouting slogans like, make peace without weapons. and calling him a war monger. here now is some of the chancellors, impassioned response time or the the the
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dw political correspondent, benjamin alvarez goober, is in the studio with me for more insight on this. and you've been following german politics for a long time as have i, i've never seen sholtes like that. what happened? i remember a few events, but not is being so bulk when it comes to ukraine and it's definitely not the fault of we social key officer, precious invasion of ukraine. these people, they started shouting, this was an event of the social democrats and faith is a, in the state of brand books up close to berlin. and they started shouting,
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even before he started speaking, saying that you should go, that she's a war longer. and then he started shouting as well as telling them that the one longer is not cold enough shows, but it's cold blooded me uprooting. so he was really vocal. he was really emotional and especially surprising for those to say that he is to call him when he speaks and when he tries to get this message across and many price this as well. one of them was flooded me a quick go on. you went on twitter and said it mostly personally, how emotionally bonus cancel, he tact him is reacting to the preteen friends and he thanked him for defending us . the risk. look, it is a surprise because we read it the german german press. they call them shell till night robotic, you know, hamburg native but despite the emotion, and that surprised, is it a turnaround of policy in any way? not really, but as i just said, we kind of compare the shoals that we just had. and we just saw the with the shoals shortly after the invasion. many have accused him also within the german government of dragging his feet of not leading of waiting for others to do it. when it comes
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to sending weapons with moves the long way, the german government has moved a long way from sending helmets to sending shore to weapons for sending left tangs . now of course, with the ukrainian side is, is asking for sending flight to germany should join this fight to coalition, but all i've sold is against it. and the majority of governments is against it. as well as saying that to me should nonsense as your flight of type students, because the german air force does not have his f 15 or a 16, but say that germany should not send it more weapons of strips, sent this 5 digits. ukraine, and you mentioned german public opinion, how representative do you think those people shouting down a chance there are of german of public opinion as a whole? do they represent anyone? it's 1st difficult to say who these people are actually lied to. politically, that could be several parties, therefore they, if the party is really strong, nice in germany, but there are other big movements, especially from the left party with and so that in fact it was
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a leader in the less part. you also started a movement, say we need peace, we need to tall. we don't need any more weapons is sent to ukraine. it's difficult to say exactly which group they belong to. but what we can say for sure is that this was not a spontaneous event that this was definitely coordinated. and i can imagine that the german chauffeur and his and advise is also preparing for this not to be the last time that he is talented at. at the, at the public event. okay, but we'll be looking forward to seeing how he behaves in the future. more outburst of emotion, political correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber, thanks for that insight. the 3 chinese astronauts have returned back to earth from the chinese space station. ken gong the capsule touch down at the dung thing. landing site in the inner mongolia region. early on sunday, the san jo, 15 crew went on for space, walks and conducted a number of experiments during their time and board. the space station medical staff took care of the 3 astronauts which china caused typo knots after their hard
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