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berlin. he attacked with an ax. the terror group isis released this video which has been confirmed to b be authentic. he left several injured before being shot dead by police. and the purge of all purges. tens of thousands fired or suspended in turkey after the failed coup attempt. the president has vowed to root out sympathizers. and did she say what she wrote?
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the would-be first lady melania trump accused of plagiarism as she endorses her husband at the republican national convention. >> it is good to have you with us. we now want he wanted to kill and die for. a 17-year-old afghan man used an ax and knife in an attack last night on a train in germany. five people were injured. to remain in critical condition. the islamic state has claimed he was working for them. a video of the man released by i.s. is genuine. he presents himself as a soldier of the caliphate.
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>> the islamic state says this video shows the man who pretreated the train attack wielding a knife and vowing to carry out a suicide mission, urging others to do the same. german investigators say the 17-year-old attacker posted a cryptic message on social media 2 24 hours before the assault. he referred to the enemies of islam. he attacked passengers on a train near the southern german city of wurzburg. various interior ministers have said an islamist connection could not be ruled out. >> a search of the assailants room turned up nothing.
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we found a handwritten text. >> the university hospital confirmed it was treating to patients with life-threatening injuries. >> we are treating the patients in intensive care as best we can as we do with all patients. so far everything is going well. the organization was outstanding. i can only complement that. the a salmon -- the assailant came as an unaccompanied minor and played for asylum. he lived here until two weeks ago when he was placed with a foster family. >> let's pull in our correspondent on the story for us this evening. good evening to you.
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the video is authentic. does the german government suspect the islamic state had direct links to the attack? >> that is something they are trying to confirm, what the exact connection between the young man in the islamic state is. we heard from the bavarian interior ministry that there was a video that was authentic. he said it was in all probability authentic that he said this showed the young man attached importance to his actions being linked to the islamic state but the connection had to be proven. as you can see they are taking this video seriously but very carefully. >> this could we politically
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explosive. the german chancellor open-door policy has come under a lot of fire. how much impact will this incident have? >> not much now. they are trying to be careful in the way they frame these events. the general narrative has been to say that one case can not represent the general population of migrants. they want to make sure that this is seen as two separate issues. it is likely this will be used by political parties as they prepare for regional elections coming up and the federal elections next year. both cases the whole migration debate is one of the key topics, if not the key topic people seem to be worried about. if the debate is not important
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now it does seem it will be important in the next few weeks and months. >> all right, thank you very much. let's get more now on another facet of this story. the young man who carried out the attack is said to have come to germany on his own to seek asylum. his actions are likely to provide concerns about the safety and mental health of unaccompanied minors. here is more. >> unaccompanied refugees, still legally minors of their countries of origin. they fled to germany. most live in supervised groups. 60,000 arrived in germany. most come from syria or afghanistan. only they know what they have
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been through. the suspect attacked or lived with a host family. no one knew he had become radicalized. radical preachers trying to indoctrinate unaccompanied minors. politicians are taking measures to prevent this from happening. following the attack in nice, security measures have been tightened. the german interior ministry says the risk assessment remains unchanged even after the attack. >> that government's purge of sympathizers of the coup has now engulfed tens of thousands of people. today 15,000 teachers suspended. 9000 of the interior ministry. 9000 others taken into attention.
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the turkish president will root out orders -- root out supporters. >> 40 handcuff judges and prosecutors were brought to the justice department. the education ministry announced the immediate suspension of 15,000 employees and ministry bureaucrats. they are accused of ties to the goulden movement. two dozen radio and television stations have lost broadcast licenses because of alleged ties to the muslim cleric. in a televised address he rejected criticism touting it as a defense of democracy. the people and institutions to criticize our country show they are not only undemocratic if
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they have specific all terrier motives. -- all terrier motives. the prime minister joined in with an appeal. >> no one should develop the need for revenge. such actions are unacceptable. we need unity and solidarity. never forget our nation of by by the rule of law. we must act within the law. i had concerns and conveyed them to the prime minister. the show of unity will do little to heal painful wounds inflicted on turkish society. >> melania trump has grabbed the headlines for the wrong reasons after an appearance at the republican party national convention. the former model gave her husband a glowing endorsement but she sounded strikingly
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similar to a speech given by michelle obama eight years ago. the would-be first lady is facing accusations of plagiarism at a convention that is already dealing with too much turbulence.+ >> melania trump's chance to showcase herself as first lady material. her stage -- her speech made headlines for copying first lady material. >> my parents impressed on me that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond. >> those words sounded a bit familiar. social media picked up on it right away. >> you work hard for what you want in life. your word is your bond. >> that is michelle obama speaking eight years ago. two passages of the address were
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a word for word match. the trump camp was quick to defend their first lady hopeful saying she worked with writers who reflected her thinking but it seems these plagiarism accusations have made little impression on truck diehards. >> we solve the secret weapon of the truck campaign. >> she is an example of a good legal immigration. >> she's going to be a beautiful first lady. >> the rest of the first day was rough and tumble. roar when delegates failed in their last-ditch attempt to block nomination as a republican candidate. >> demonstrators took to the streets to protest the nomination. he is trailing hillary clinton in the polls. this could be the week he
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re-brands himself as electable leader. >> we have richard? richard? the miracle of live tv. let's talk about what's going on at the convention. day two. everyone is talking about his wife. >> that is right. it has been messy around the donald trump campaign. you have had his former campaign manager suggesting his current campaign manager should quit. you have the head of the republican party saying he would fire whoever wrote that speech. glad to be honest his campaign has always been messy from the start.
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it has always have this air of everything being done on a less professional basis than the political campaign america is used to. >> if we are going to put the plagiarism accusations aside, what our party members saying? >> they are extremely positive. i've been speaking to delegates asking them, aside from this story, what do they make of melania trump? they seem to be moved by what she had to say. she humanized donald trump which was the aim of this speech. it underscored what they have in common with family values. that is something a lot of
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conservative christian republicans have doubted because of his colorful private life and the perception among some that melania trump is a trophy wife. i have not spoken to a delegate here it was unimpressed. >> i know the rollcall vote is coming up to nominate the presidential candidate. any surprises expected? >> i don't think so. the delegates here, even those against donald trump have been taking part in these rebellions, they admit trump is going to be the nominee. they will try to cause trouble in that rollcall but nobody expects anything other than donald trump getting the nomination this week.
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>> live from berlin. our top story. the islamic state has released this video showing a young afghan man who attacked passengers on a german train. authorities say the video is real and the teenager left several evil badly injured before beig shot dead by police. melania trump accused of plagiarism after addressing the republican party convention. personally -- her speech contained parts of an address given by michelle obama.
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on sunday and iraq war veteran gunned down six policeman in baton rouge. three died. the ambush rocked the capital city, still shaken after the idle shooting by police of an african-american man selling cds outside of a convenience store. >> what the government should and could do to prevent shootings like what happened here? >> nothing to prevent nothing like this. this was a guy we had not seen on the radar that showed up and carried out his dirty deeds which led to a number of officers being killed. what we are trying to do is gather intelligence to make sure we can look at other folks that
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may be affiliated with this guy and no firsthand the operations they have, what they are planning and be prepared the best way we can. >> don't you think it is easy to get weapons, especially automatic weapons? >> without a doubt. that's a big battle in this country. the forces that don't want anything to happen to those assault rifles are prevailing right now. unfortunately it will take more senseless killings before somebody says my position i took was wrong read i can't be an agent feeding people going out there and killing officers and families at random based on high powerful weapons they are able to obtain. >> we are seeing it over and over again. too much weapons in the streets.
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we should do something about it but nothing happens. >> you have gridlock in congress, in the state legislator. those are going to be the bodies that govern the citizens of the state or those in the united states that are represented by congressman. unless we step back for a second and say let's stop this occurring. don't worry on the fuel be reelected. worry on if someone is going to live. >> mr. trump is now saying that he wants to make america safe again. your comment? will it a a a a a a a a a a a y what he is talking about. there are a lot of communities that are safe very you can't
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paint every community with the same brush. we have people trying to move towards a better state and nation but they know it will have to do something about the gun laws in this country. >> thank you very much. >> let's talk about business now. monsanto cannot get it together. >> someone is plain hard to get. she had sweet and the offer to $125 a share in cash. despite the rejection monsanto said it was open to further talks. the big comes as earnings feel the pressure of falling crop prices and custom cutting -- cost-cutting.
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let's go to new york where our correspondent is standing by for us. we just saw monsanto rejecting buyers. it seems to be more difficult than expect it. do investors believe in this deal? >> some are saying they would need to offer more in the range of $135 per share. what i am also hearing is that monsanto itself feels more like being the one who should y another company and not be taken over. both sides seem to be open to more talks. it is very telling when you look at the stock price. monsanto trades at 107 dollars a
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share. there is movement on it that should move more of the line. >> netflix came in lower than expected. we usually see netflix exceeding expect haitians. what happened there? >> those numbers came in better than expected. if you look at the new subscribers there was a huge disappointment. we have seen quite a disaster before. netflix increase prices. they had to roll back. now they are talking about price
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increases and current subscribers are starting to cancel their descriptions. we now look rocksolid, better than expected. here we see a pop in the stock in initial reaction. >> another scandal hitting the european automotive industry. it's about trucks. they have find the largest truck makers after a long-running investigation concluded they had joined a quarter dated business activity. the 3 billion euro fine is the highest penalty applied to a single sector. >> the fine was stiff enough to inflict pain even on the
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corporate giants. the commission said the company is concluded over price-fixing. >> the pricing, how to transfer the cost and when to introduce technologies are issues they colluded. delaying introduction of environmentally friendly technology in agreement with competitors is not exactly the mainstream idea of competition. on the contrary. >> the company regretted the violations and had strengthened
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its internal controls and employee training. they set aside 600 million euros for possible fines resulting from the antitrust investigation. ma and was cited for breaking antitrust regulations but was not find because it had alerted the eq authorities. >> everyone wants to know what the u.k. is going to do about its economy. john kerry said informal talks to take place even before a brexit. the government tries to figure out the road ahead. >> the new conservative, they have their work cut out for them. the main topic is how to go about leaving the european union with as little damage as possible.
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the effects will not be restricted to britain alone. the imap says it will affect global economic growth and has lowered its forecast. the vast majority say it is deeply regrettable and damaging to the eu. 8% thought the effects will be very minor. 15% are expecting a major impact. the results are for a much different. a majority of 58% of executives are expecting a massive negative impact.
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euromaxx highlights. >> hello there friends. we bring you up to date with some of the latest european culture news of the past week. here's a preview of her subjects. water walk. floating peers in italy are attracting crowd. sa berlin artist and his exceptional inventions. a thatched house on the german jetset island of silt. if you have been following the news, you will know british voters have decided to leave the european union. what does that mean?
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