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new revelations on a controversial murder case that sparked chaos and the german city of cabinets as a prison guard admits he leaked the arrest warrant of a migrant suspect. ten days ahead of sweden's general election anger flares at a rally for a parliamentary candidate claims he was attacked by a migrant. and the nobel committee says that myanmar's prime minister should keep the peace prize despite a un report on the mass killing of the country's worst hinge of minority. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q.
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in moscow thanks for joining us this hour a german prison guard has turned himself in after admitting he leaked an arrest warrant for a migrant who was a key suspect in a murder the case has turned the city of chemists into chaos as opposing rallies come out in force over the refugee crisis in germany the officer says he wanted to end all speculation concerning sunday stopping. it was clear to me that i was violating my official tutsis and i also knew that i would probably lose my job as a result i want the public to know what has happened i want the speculation about a possible crime to come to an end following the stabbing incident police arrested a twenty two year old iraqi man and a twenty three year old syrian both were charged with manslaughter r.t.s. europe correspondent peter arbor brings us the latest. who this prison guard is he's been suspended from his job after admitting that it was him that leaked the
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photograph of those arrest warrants he's a thirty nine year old man who was working at the corrections facility in dresden he says he didn't know that it was a legal for him to share these documents to leak these documents. but he may well face criminal charges for doing so we heard a little bit of the statement that's being put out this is through his lawyers this is the only way he says he's going to be communicating from here on out he said he didn't he did it because he didn't want the media to speculate on details as to who the arrested were he went on to accuse the press of having manipulated the facts in the past to put across a narrative that they wanted to see every day as a prison officer i am the focus of what has happened in our country from a few years ago and this intensity and manner nevertheless every day i see that most people are lied to about the changes in our country or do not want to accept the truth however at least regarding the manslaughter or murder in chemnitz i did not want to be a part of the silent crowd anymore but in response to that statement that was put
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out we've also heard from the justice minister of saxony who said that in doing this it was irresponsible it was serious and it could well have impacted upon the investigation itself we cannot tolerate a public servant who does such a thing in any way and we will take strict action we've also been getting some more information or certainly in from. it's been doing the rounds in the press here in germany about one of those suspects the twenty two year old iraqi he's in custody he came here from iraq through bulgaria in twenty fifteen right at the height of the migrant influx of refugees influx into germany he actually should have been deported back to bulgaria however that deportation notice wasn't carried out what we're hearing in the press is that he was very well known to police and fire reports saying that he had several drug charges against him also reporting saying that from those who lived with him in refugee home saying he always carried
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a knife with him but it was the stopping today of thirty five year old man those two men were arrested for you stopped dead in the early hours of sunday morning here in cannes which was. boarding right wing crowd on sunday. was what we are getting ready for is a big demonstrations expected well will take place on saturday afternoon here in came that i'll be here in amongst those crowds are expecting a large crowd from the right also a large town demo from the left and a very large presence from the police they're being drafted in from all across the local area even further afield as well as they try to make sure that there isn't a repeat of the scenes that we saw on monday night and those clashes between left and right. a swedish parliamentary candidate has claimed he was attacked by a migrant and an alternative for sweden party rally in the town in the west of the
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country. i don't feel right i think i think the first i was tension has flared during campaigning for the general election that's seen a surge in support for euro skeptic right wing parties and as maria from national reports the country is also seeing a spike in crime levels. we've gotten used to pictures of shootings and car burnings from sweden called vulnerable neighborhoods but the upcoming swedish elections has brought violence to an every day street one of my colleagues from alternative for sweden being attacked by an immigrant you who attended a meeting am with dreaming and shouting all over the meeting i was attacked two of them i tried to protect my friend and colleague and this immigrant starting hitting both false in the face both of the few eggs at our vehicle when we left the scene they ran after and when we had to stop going to the red lights they kicked the car
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. swedish police never confirmed the attackers ethnicity but the party member with phone to him as an immigrant but that is not all they blame immigrants for an overall high criminality rate and low security across the country although the connection was never established officially the alternative the party offers to sweden is sealed borders and immigrants send back to where they came from we passed relation instead of immigration they say and also a toff a police and a stronger army the meeting gathered some supporters but the majority came to voice their discontent because he was saying that we need to clean sweden we need to get every four under our care and sweden need to be united like back in the old days right without not really because if you look back in time threeness always take aim
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for injuries so if you didn't begin a new people. if when the court we are racist on always streets where race is still no street party saying they want to take down all the immigrants and the people is unhappy they don't like to as long as we can integrate them into swedish society may become they become a swedish says me because i'm also an immigrant from belgium. as long as they become swedish and they work and they do it normal swedish things it's absolutely no problem as long as they they can keep their religion they can keep their culture but they should speak swedish and they should work miniger immigrants here feel like they're they're not included in a society police told us they are always invited to meet him it's like this one you many parties. have a lot of meetings so. it is. a thought if. a lot of people did lie don't like. opinions that's why we call the police it's
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always like this when it's time to two elections sweden will hold the general election in just ten days tensions are high ahead of the national vote and that could be historic the ruling left tween social democrats the oldest and largest party in sweden could see its worst result in the last one hundred years as rightwing ideas are gaining more and more popularity. from sweden. the nobel committee has defended its decision not to retract the peace prize for myanmar as prime minister that's despite a damning report from the united nations that accuses the country's army of committing mass killing and atrocities against the rohinton minority claims the government denies he has artist all quarter. the treatment of the roe hinge a minority in myanmar equates to genocide that's the conclusion made by the un the
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mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top tech metod generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes with ethnic cleansing happening on the watch of nobel peace prize laureate aung sun suu kyi and despite public demand to rescind cheese award the nobel committee insists she should keep it. on.
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the un report demands me and marse top generals be investigated for crimes against humanity and also accuses misty of turning a blind eye to it all but that's all right because the nobel committee says it's only concerned with what happened in the past. it's important to remember that's a noble prize whether in physics or literature or peace is awarded for some prize worth the effort or achievement of the past i'm certain suits won the nobel prize for peace for who fight for democracy and freedom up until ninety ninety one the year she was awarded the prize well if we're to believe the committee only cares about recipients pasts they're going to have some explaining to do here. yes or. received the peace prize for brokering a middle east accord securing palestinian rule in gaza and the west bank at the
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same time he was the chair of the palestinian liberation organization responsible for violence against israeli civilians who they consider to be part of an illegal occupation arafat did renounce the violence before receiving the award but how about another nobel peace prize laureate henry kissinger. kissinger received the prize for negotiating a cease fire in the vietnam war he was set to share the nomination with north vietnamese diplomat late dr except the vietnamese responded with a big no thank you and to no one's amazement that's because kissinger had been secretly bombing cambodia throughout the nineteen seventies as disclosed in a pentagon report he approved almost four thousand bombing raids in just the first two years of the campaign. and last but not least as
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barack obama many were left puzzled as to what obama had exactly done to receive his peace prize but just like the others the nobel committee said it had something to do with his past. only very rarely as a person to the same extent as obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future we are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future but for what he has done in the previous year we hope this will enhance what he is trying to do what exactly obama did in that previous year is a mystery to most people. british prime minister theresa may has wrapped up her tour of africa it's been memorable not only on account of the impressive trade and investment promises but also for the kenyan leaders description of one former u.k. official and has more details. we all know that former u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson is no stranger to causing offense except this time
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around he got a taste of his own medicine from the kenyan president who standing side by side with british prime minister to recent may is to say last year you recall the foreign secretary then boris. or is. the bicycle good. well known not only did this bicycle guy make headlines but also cause the u.k. delegation to chuckle as well as brought a smile to to reset may's face now one of the reasons potentially that the kenyan president would have a bone to pick with boris johnson could be the comments he had made in the past among them saying things such as barack obama being described as according to johnson as part kenyan with an ancestral dislike of the british empire as well as some other offensive comments such as watermelons but when it comes to theresa may of course the reason she would rejoice in
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a moment like this potentially is some of the issues she has himself with boris johnson not only did he recently resign foreign secretary because of disagreements over her stance on bracks it but also because of the political rivalry going on between johnson and may of course we have to remember that boris johnson potentially becoming the next conservative party leader has been the talk of the town here in westminster him having quite strong support among the party and meanwhile of course we know that recent may's popularity and approval ratings have really been dwindling and she knows it despite having been caught dancing a couple of times on that trip there and keeping up appearances. it's become a weekly event for almost a year already and palestinian protesters have been out in force again this friday along the israeli border reports say dozens have been injured by the israeli defense forces thousands of palestinians are continuing to demand their territorial
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claims to the land in gaza strip taken away after the one nine hundred forty eight war it's still up according to some media outlets that palestinian minister and chairman of the anti settlement commission while the us off was shot in the air during protests on thursday israel has stressed it is continuing to defend its border against hamas a group it considers to be terrorists. he had of the people's republic of done yet in ukraine has been killed in an explosion at a restaurant but the instant now being investigated as a terror attack we cannot go live to or among course here at r t h q in moscow for the updates on what's been established at this point well we have to know that the restaurant itself is located right in the center of the city of just a few hundred meters away from the residence of alexander was a hard call and this is a place where a lot of people go with their children there's a park there are many restaurants in fact i was there myself just
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a couple of days ago having lunch in one of those restaurants so it's a very high to populated area now an advisor to alexander's a. bomb was deliberately planted in the restaurant where there he was supposed to meet with someone and according to some other reports of besides the death of their next sounders a harsh and go some other people who have been injured as well we don't know about their their condition so for now the city of donetsk is currently on a log down and they're looking for the people who committed this act and it is as it is now cold all the entrances and exits to the self-proclaimed republic are now closed as they're looking for these perpetrators local authorities accuse the government in committing this act ends of the government in kiev says that they already issued a statement that they have not been involved in this incident the incidents now hundreds of harshman go he's been the head of the self-proclaimed republics inside
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it's wednesday fourteen and also. in the war that's been going on between the self-proclaimed people's republic and ukraine now moscow the russian foreign ministry already also called this a terrorist act and in fact a lot of here putin also called it a despicable murder and it's testament that those who chose a path of terror are not looking for a pee. solutions with the residents of the east of ukraine and instead they bank on the destabilizing southeast of the country and he said he expects that those responsible will be brought to justice. sort of staying across this story for us thank you. the u.s. says it's shifting its focus from fighting terrorism to enter entering an arms race with other major world powers but is it playing catch up or going into overdrive to boost its arms industry.
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great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of us national security strategy is that for our time. you mentioned the navy for example that we have fewer ships that we did in one nine hundred sixty governor we also have a few horses and bayonets the nature of our military is changed.
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the world changed right russia and china appear competitors and we have to think about our defense different ways and we have in the past when you look at the three major superpowers china russia and the united states all three additionally china and russia really upgraded their forces in the last five years so now the united states is playing catch up a little bit on some of those people who are the problem isn't we spend more money than the rest of the world on military equipment and manpower this is about big business these country companies make billions off the united states plus the illegal arms shipment state they send around the world finite it states is in a constant buildup of weaponry and in a constant arms race. the international olympic committee president has admitted that the. war on doping in sport might never be won but thomas has come under fire
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for his comment especially from america's anti-doping agency which claims bach has just given up and takes a look at what this could mean for russian athletes. while the world of sports continues its fight against doping the president of the international olympic committee has made a very honest and a very sad admission but. who will always happen. who's. one of the walls you can order those words did not sit well with the chief of the u.s. anti-doping agency traver tygart obviously a top flight but the leader of florence i don't can't simply throwing it out he probably has a point especially since doping scandals have hit tiger's own turf just this week alone two u.s. athletes received lengthy bans for substance abuse that's well pundits blame anti-doping officials for turning a blind eye when it comes to domestic sport or rather
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a multibillion businesses like the n.f.l. but thomas back strong words weren't the trigger for your side as criticism tiger assumed that the i.o.c. president's quote was essentially a precursor to water reinstating the russian anti-doping agency at that meeting scheduled for september twentieth but he did say that he hoped russia had learned its lesson the hard way and would be welcomed back into the world of sports and that was something tiger stressed must not happen would be a devastating blow to russia to meet a lot of credibility as well as the hopes and dreams of millions around the world who believe in clean and fair competition russia and its anti-doping agency have been imprisoned for several years now after the publication of the so-called mclaren report which detailed accusations of a state sponsored doping program the result many russian athletes banned the country's anti-doping agency effectively shut down and water handing over a lengthy criteria list for reciter to be reinstated last year the agency
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acknowledged that nineteen of thirty one points had been met and just this month the president of water said there were only two conditions remaining. two off thirty one but they still had to be purified i think relationships to the point that we have yet to purify the two conditions that are still outstanding sure more needs to be done with new accusations and new anti-doping investigations russia still has three weeks to put things right so has tiger jumped the gun in demanding russia to be kept out the final two criteria we're talking about. russia is supposed to say hands up the mclaren report was right we did engage in state sponsored doping russia has absolutely rejected the mclaren reports finding not because they don't believe russia's quite rightly said we want the evidence thomas bach himself as requested the evidence and so far nobody has seen it apart we
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presume for mclaren it is only a guess at this stage but i think the first steps to a reinstatement will be taking place towards the end of september when there is a big meeting of water and i think. the outcome will be that russia will be readmitted i think it will be an unconditional reinstatement but eventually i think people will just have to say well ok russia are not admitting the been state sponsored doping but we need them anyway they are a world power in sports and sport needs russia keeping sports clean is something that both the i.o.c. president and ahead of us anti-doping agency are striving to achieve but can you really demand one thing from another country when similar dropping scandals break out in your own backyard one thing's for sure the next water meeting in the seychelles is looking like politics and doping will go down the finish line.
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allegations of racism have cast a shadow over one candidates bid to be the new governor of florida in the united states. he is an articulate spokesman for those far left views and he's a charismatic candidate so we've got to work hard to make sure that we continue florida going in a good direction the last thing we need to do is to monkey this by trying to embrace of socialist agenda with a huge tax increase is. the last thing we need to do is to monkey this. let's talk about that stunning upset in the florida florida gubernatorial race florida's democratic party has called those comments disgusting and accuse dissenters of making racist dog whistles that's how white folks talk about black men who are successful he started his campaign the same way down the track did
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write politics this is let's divide be derisive be sensational. it is zero to do with the race shot it has everything to do with whether we won florida continue to go in a good direction there are moments when you need to apologize and that's what needs to happen from the congress and. yellow ribbons used as a symbol of support for jailed politicians in spain's catalonia have been stripped down overnight in the city and to run a video broadcast across spanish t.v. should groups of separatists dressed head to toe in white boiler suits and masks taking down ribbons across three towns a spokesperson for them stressed their aim is to keep public spaces neutral. when the white suit is our way of putting forward our demands we put on the suits to
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draw attention we also consider it to be a form of protest first of all we went there to get rid of those yeah. ribbons and to deliver the message that public places are neutral that they should be neutral our opponents should respect public places everything depends on the camp you belong to we believe that their freedom of speech ends where ours begins it's that simple that one. members from a pro unionist group also joined in across catalonia but that's leader a high profile activist out in front of cameras removing the ribbons. enough public places belong to old catalonians who will defend them every day today in atlanta who moved to yellow ribbons from the next pay c.s. will continue to defend the streets beaches and squares of catalonia in response there's been a move by pro independence supporters to go around and put the ribbons back up they
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say the symbol is misunderstood and those removing them are restricting democracy and freedom cattle and politicians were arrested for their role and an independence referendum last october which was ruled illegal by madrid the leaders of the movement were accused of rebellion and sedition the referendum sparked mass protests and clashes between demonstrators and police. that's a global news update for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media sites for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in . they gave us national camera. roughly once they showed some loose leaf for them.
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to own cool videos and someone with a broken string of hats. going down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v. . a parting of ways european leaders talk of a future without the us what is in store for the transatlantic alliance and much much more on the suspicion of frost. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive trucks people who rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and the slow down
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too much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality. for man are sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way you could have done it there's no possible way because they do not share around a corner. greetings and salutations. this week the death of u.s. senator john mccain is inspired both hero worshipping adelaide from his mainstream
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supporters and cries of warmonger and villainy from his detractors a polarizing figure in both life and death but while the arguments over mccain's life and legacy will be long and heated we must not get distracted from one of the most important parts of loss reflection in light of the good vs evil debate over john mccain i think it's important to reflect on just who we choose to call our heroes and their villains and most importantly how we ultimately treat them while they're still here with us case in point chelsea manning who this week was denied entry into the country of australia yes chelsea manning the five foot two inch whistle blower an l g b t q activist was denied an entry visa industrially on wednesday by the australian government for get this failing the characters.

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