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is this true nature conservation for only green washing? after all, there are billions to be made. our chief documentary, deep sea greed starts june 8th on d, w. the . this is deed of new news live from berlin. officials say a wrong signal led to india as deadly as railway disaster. in decades. authorities are investigating if human error cause a signal change that says a high speed train off course, killing almost 300 people. also coming up. hundreds of thousands. raleigh against
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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. police in hong kong crack down on dissent on the anniversary of the 198910 admin square massacre engaging we'll hear from people who were on the square and are keeping the memory alive 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 a human error or caused a signal changed a sent a high speed train onto the wrong track. india's railway minister says the people
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responsible have been identified. the critics say the government is to blame. meanwhile, families of the victims are still searching for their loved ones. 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 cold 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 if 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 a 55 year old, cushy to dies, watched her only daughter died in the crash as the rail car kept rolling,
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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
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years, it hasn't been enough to overcome decades of neglect. this latest crashes renewed, longstanding concerns about safety on one of the busiest rail systems in the world . in poland, hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in the capital more such a voice, their anger at the country's right wing populous government, opposition groups organized to protest against the law and justice party, which they accuse of a roading democracy as well as taking over the media and the judiciary. the riley also marks the 34th anniversary of poland 1st postwar democratic election, and the end of communist rule. parliamentary elections are due within months. earlier we spoke the journalist matthew day in warsaw who explained why so many people turned out for the rally. well, you have a number of factors. festival, the town government has another being 30 popular with certain groups within 30
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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 pockets are quite hard. and the 3rd factor you have is that the government recently introduced the law that you actually came into effect this week, which will establish a commission to investigate or alleged russian interference in pro just politics or influencing, purchased 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 public office. if they have some form of link, so to being under the influence of rock of old russia,
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i'm out to the center line, both ringing within post politics. all right, forgive me for the interruption. you are 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 post is coming, has faced many, a protest in the past. something very big as 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 waiting 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 a moment and some experts believe that this russian influence bill the 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,
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this coming as whether it's stones in the possibly putting a couldn't puppy weather than again, that was journalist matthew day in or so today marks the 34th anniversary of the chinaman, square crack town. when chinese soldiers opened fire on peaceful pro democracy, protesters and badging any mention of the incident is banned the mainland china for decades. hong kong was the only place in china where the 1989 massacre was commemorated. at that hasn't changed. people have retained several people marketing university in public. among those arrested was the 67 year old pro democracy actors . alexandra wong, also known as grandma wong memorial events, marketing. the killings have been effectively band since paging and post a 2020 security law on the once a ton of his territory of hong com or was security so tight? we asked our correspondent stevie kong in hong kong. how people there marked the
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anniversary fall. yeah, right. it's has been a long tradition to hong kong as to commend the res, uh they tunes for right here at victoria park when i'm sending up like now today us, we have to report to light part of the park. let's take a nova by probation organization to hold like some foot markets. and part of this was like like, shut down by the government. and so you have seen these blocks by barricades, by the teeth. um, for some unknown reasons and like that people are like apparently they have resulting to some more low profile and sup to approach us to um, to hold any kind of commemoration because any form of morning has been more difficult. nearby. yes. is the national security and all of them posted in 2020, that some people like m web talking and we have spoken to like some shopkeepers to try to keep a white candles at the stores privately and some dislike. some old news put a news clippings about, they turn soft incidents inside a book store price at b,
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so, so on and so on. the people maybe they try to like um, post the photos out the candle lights online. and that's the only way that people can still express that dissent and um and people are definitely seeking some way more stable ways to do so that it's shannon minute anniversary. also saw the opening of the world's only permanent exhibition dedicated to the massacre located in an office in downtown new york. it includes artifacts from its jet admin uprising on june. the 4th 1989. the memorial exhibited was organized by exiled former student leaders and pro democracy actors. many were on the square in beijing when chinese troops opened fire. they said replaces a hong kong museum that chinese authority shut down 2 years ago. and for more on this, joining us now from new york is losing cause she's an exile. the chinese dissident
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who helped organize the exhibition on the massacre. loot. thank you for joining us . could you bring us back to 1989? you were a member of an independent union at the time. what did you see? what did you feel? what was it all like? oh, okay. i know how much you want. uh, 90 id and i, i just the 28 years old. i'm the one show the wine years old, so i don't know there's some movement only to support a student who's they want the democracy. i want to freedom one of the speech free speech. so we want that doesn't work with the place. so we think about this like what the, you know, the system that we wanna stomach, try it out for the whole country who will be the church. so i to one of the workers, to your new we won't let you in the front of the unit. we have a vertical dwight, so we just have drawn, we single, we not long. we one or 2, we follow the mall and the up there,
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you can see that behind the picture and the leap home, she put it in the marshal, the warmer cost and all for the or 10 numbers for it. a student is clear and see for to, for they are marshals them all. you somebody use the army, so always a q also system. so i want this again the pin number. i was almost a to to clock in i am june for i live the gentleman. so i sold a soldier to show the awesome people and the people that fired from the my on area . so i escaped to go to the columbia escape. i told option number cam a score and they end up in the page you on the floor near the by the fiji hotel. right? they do hotel. i sold a many, many times and i know twice the par sold your car to coming to the into the pin number score and the use the com to try and to kill the awesome people on the lot
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of people. oh, you know, searching well. i saw the almost like a 20 on the people laid on the street. there are people we never know the archive, but we wanted to in ad dollars the people to call me and the par note. tell me on the we are we sold a soldier to kill them, to killed or they laid on the street. so this a tenant is a car mandatory is we not believe that we want to or what we want to go buy or to china. so that's why we have to use the plate, and then what happens, you can see behind on my picture and the, we're have a lot of people to coming to us, to dos and to, to the, to die. and then we have a more peebles and the family, like a member. so you look in the month and i will be coming to show you. we have a lot of people, the family member cannot see the people cannot be called and come to the world in the gym until more or they are family members. so that's what we are. let me ask
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you one or 2 pieces like yeah, go ahead. i can only imagine the emotion and, and i, you know, i think our viewers would salute the work you're doing to keep memory alive. it's very, moving to hear your words. and the just let me ask you this briefly. the chinese government is making it possible. it would seem to allow any kind of remembrance, um, can the memory only be maintained outside of china now, or do you think it's in people's minds? okay. one the china is that the more people they are feel um they want to treat. forget about, well, get on. what's the happened because of the chinese, the current 2 will be killed, them are punished. well, the more this is the people in the jail side with them. yeah. does that the reason? so we want a piece of play to just wanted to think about. we never forget june for the marshal
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bar and the governmental killed. yes. a. hi. okay. yeah, the question to me, right? no, i'm just, i, i'm afraid that's all the time we have for it. for, for a for you know, thank you so so much for sharing your story and keeping the memory alive. links in quite in new york. thank you very much. and to yes, thank you so much. and then 23 chinese aust astronauts have returned back to earth from the chinese space station turn gong the capsule, touch down at the dung thing. landing site in the inner mongolia region. early sunday, the send jo 15 crew went on for space walks and conducted a number of experiments during their time aboard the space station. medical staff took care of the 3 astronauts, which china also caused tyco knots after their hard binding in the desert. yeah, i don't know what's this. okay. yeah. and that brings us to the end of this program
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