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new revelations on a controversial murder case that sparked chaos in the german city of cabinets as a prison guard admits to the arrest warrant 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 you want to court on the mass killing of the country's or minority.
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very warm welcome to the program from all of us here are to h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. a german prison guard has turned himself in after admitting he leaked and arrest warrant for a migrant who is a key suspect in a murder the case has turned the city of kemet 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 fish would you tease 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 the twenty three year old syrian both were charged with manslaughter artie's europe correspondent peter over brings us the
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latest. to the prison guard is he's been suspended from his job after admitting that it was him that leaked the 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
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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 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 information has been doing the rounds in the press here in germany about one of those suspects the twenty two year old iraqi who's in custody he came here from iraq through bulgaria in twenty fifteen knots right at the height of the. my current influx of refugee influx into germany he actually should have been deported back to bulgaria however that deportation notice wasn't carried out but what we hearing in the press is that he was very well known to police and fire
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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 a knife with him it 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 canada that resulted in. a rewarding 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
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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 an alternative for sweden party rally in a town in the west of the country. tension has flared during campaigning for the general election and seen a surge in support for euro skeptic right wing parties and as maria financial reports the country is also seeing a spike in crime levels. we've gotten nice to pictures of shootings and car burnings from sweden so-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 the meeting and with screaming and shouting all over the meeting i was attacked too it was a i tried to protect my friend and colleague and this immigrant starting hitting
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before us 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 . swedish police never confirmed the attackers ethnicity but the party member of a firm 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 sent back to where they came from we passed creation 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
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every four in your hair and we don't need to be you know like back in the old days you might leave that not really because if you look back in time three notes always came for and or so if you didn't think in new people if when of course we are racist on our streets where race is still no streets party saying they want to take down all the immigrants and then 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 am also an immigrant from bell. as the as long as they become swedish and they work and they do or 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 not included in the society police told us they are always invited to meet him it's like this one many parties. have
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a lot of meetings so some part is. about if. a lot of people did lie don't like. opinions that's why we call the police it's always like this when it's going to two elections sweden will hold the general election in just ten days tensions are high ahead of the national vein to that could be historic the ruling left wing 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 me on mars 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
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government denies here's our quarter with more. the treatment of the roe hinge a minority in myanmar equates to genocide that's the conclusion made by the un the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top 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 demands to rescind cheese award the nobel committee insists she should keep it. in.
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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 literature peace is awarded for some prize worth the effort or achievement of the past. 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. there
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are a fat receive the peace prize for brokering a middle east accord securing palestinian rule in gaza and the west bank at the same time he was the chair of the palestinian liberation organization responsible for violence they considered to be part of an illegal occupation arafat did renounce the violence before receiving the award though but how about another nobel peace prize laureate henry kissinger. listen to receive 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 nine hundred seventy s. as disclosed in a pentagon report he approved almost four thousand bombing raids in just the first
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two years of the campaign. and last but not least as 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 has 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 and it's been memorable not only on account of the impressive trade and investment promises but also for the kenyan leaders
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description of one former u.k. official and assess he explains. we all know that former u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson is no stranger to causing offense except this time 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. oras borders johnson. the bicycle guy. 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 theresa 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
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some other offensive comments such as watermelons but when it comes to theresa may of course the reason she would rejoice in a moment like this potentially is some of the issues she has herself with boris johnson not only did he quite recently resigned u.k. 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 teresa may's popularity in 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. one of hollywood's biggest scandals was kept under wraps by
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a prominent news channel that's the claim of one and b.c. producer who says journalists were deliberately stopped from breaking accusations against harvey weinstein. i was told not to do the interview and ordered to stand down for us effectively killing the story those orders came to me from the highest levels of n.b.c. that was an ethical and a massive breach of journalistic integrity. mchugh is the first person willing to n.b.c. to publicly accuse the network of meddling in his and freelance correspondent run in pharaoh's attempts to pursue the story mckeown farrow spent months collecting materials on the allegations and two months after they faced resistance from the network farah went to the new yorker and published the first in his series of articles on weinstein the pieces won him a pulitzer prize since the publication of pharaoh's article in october of two thousand and seventeen over seventy women have come forward with allegations against the film producer weinstein had himself into new york police in may of two
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thousand and eighteen and shortly afterwards was charged with rape and several counts of sexual abuse he denies all the out with a court case still ongoing and b.c. says that the asportation that they tried to kill the weinstein story is an outright lie instead the network suggests that froze material lacks sufficient evidence and was simply not ready for broadcast. we're now joined live by anthony bryan logan a political and social issues commentator welcome to the program now why do you think mick is just now coming forward with these allegations well i'm not really sure but the timing maybe there was going to be a piece published about him that he knew about we don't know about i'm not quite sure but it does come up for right now because this is pretty interesting information and i think it is a lot about the entertainment industry and how they protect one another and what do you make of the claims that weinstein was actually calling and b c executives
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directly about the research into these allegations. oh i believe it makes a lot of sense because the president of n.b.c. no oppenheim is a screenwriter and you know his spare time he wants to try to get into hollywood into certain things so maybe he knows no way a maybe he knows other people a b. c. so he probably had a direct line to say as a way to me what's going on with this was going on with there and they're probably given him certain pieces of information because the people at a.b.c. don't want to bring it relationship because they when he gets out he would in if you make weinstein look bad they may not just be him you've got to worry about there are others in hollywood who may not like that scene which so again this goes back to entertain made history a lot of them know each other they're having to get there and they protect each other so it makes sense for weinstein to have their direct line of communication. now we've seen the massive fallout from this story what kind of backlash do you
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think and we see might face if this turns out to be true. well they will face some backlash for those of us that are kind of conservative those of us they don't like what they're doing you have to understand the context of where the backlash would be coming from normally on a case like this she was a lot of the mainstream media come out and say sorry thing but they may be in the same situation a a.b.c. is in they may want to protect their particular interest in how they would if they may not want to except those in los angeles say those in los angeles so they may be kind of tight lipped about it there have been quite a few stories that are similar to this that some networks have kind of sad away from they didn't really want to get too deep into it there are politics even when there's not real politics go annoying when talking about the entertainment industry so this story may not get as much praise as it should do you think there's anything to the argument that the story just lacked on the record victims that that's the
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n.b.c. stance. well i don't think that stopped a lot of the mainstream media before they'll publish stories without any victims or pure speculation is kind of hypocritical if we're going to say they then a lot of stories a day produce over their past i don't know two three four or more years we're never gonna print so kind of a weak excuse to look into it it's not. a consistent thing that they follow they follow in this particular case i think because of the level of celebrity they harvey weinstein is or was and to me brian logan political and social issues commentator the so much for your time thank you more news after this short break.
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welcome back the head of the people's republic of danielle skin ukraine has been killed in an explosion at a restaurant but the incident now being investigated as a terror attack parties roman cost of has the details. best 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 has 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 a couple of days ago having lunch in one of those restaurants so it's a very highly populated area now an adviser to alexander hardy and co said that the bomb was deliberately planted in the restaurant where there he was supposed to meet with someone and now the city of donetsk and to so-called and s.
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peoples republic have declared a state of emergency and the entire territory the republic is now on lockdown people cannot leave and people cannot come into the next people's republic as are the authorities are looking for people who have executed terrorist attacks and this is exactly how they're looking at it right now as a terrorist acts local authorities said after the murder although it's under the harsh and cold the forces ukraine army green army have started mobilizing their units along the separation lines between the two conflicts and sides now most goes foreign ministry has also said that this was a terrorist act and should be investigated as such show russian president vladimir putin called it a despicable murder and that those who chose the path of terror and violence are not looking for a peaceful solution in the southeast of the country and instead they bank on the
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destabilizing the situation and he had that he expects all the responsible parties in this case should be brought to justice and meanwhile authorities in the next people's republic have announced a three day oh mourning period associated with the death of their head alexander the harsh and cruel. it's become a weekly event for almost half. a year already and palestinian protesters were out in force again on 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 claims to land in the gaza strip taken away after the nine hundred forty eight war it's thought according to some media outlets that palestinian minister and chairman of the anti settlement commission would be the us off was shot in the ear during protests on thursday israel has stressed it is continuing to defend its border against hamas a group it considers to be terrorists. the u.s.
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says it's shifting its focus from fighting terrorism to entering an arms race with other major world powers but is it playing catch up or going into overdrive to boost its arms industry. a great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of good now ok good you just rather use it or aren't.
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you mention that maybe for example that we have fewer ships that we did in one nine hundred sixty will go over we'll show a few horses and bayonets but nature of our military changed. the world changed right russia and china your competitors and we have. think about are the plants different ways and we have in the past when you look at the three major superpowers china russia and the united states all three apparently 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 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
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shipment state they send around the world the united states is in a constant buildup of weaponry and in a constant arms race that's a global news update for now thanks for tuning. that i'm not going to let her out the other night and not on the drug or the other that. out of the amount of the money that they let me know. this was a good time to. try to move their i'm doudna my. mother
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politicking on larry king white house counsel dong began the man who single handedly stopped donald trump for firing robert muller in the summer of twenty seventeen is leaving his post the announcement which the president made via twitter whedon's day morning comes of era levon days after the full extent of against cooperation with special counsel robert moore was investigation was made public. so what do we make of this departure and what does it mean for the president's strategy now in dealing with the russian probe. there with elliot williams he spent nearly eight years as a senior political appointee. he served as deputy assistant attorney general vote legislative affairs at the department of justice and is assistant director of legislative affairs at u.s. immigrations and customs enforcement he's also judiciary committee counsel to senator chuck schumer he's in our nation's capital all right what's your read on
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them again departure of the way it was announced no it was the way it was announced is probably the most striking thing about it because once again as we've learned it was through a tweet done again they had been talking about it apparently prior to prior to the release of this tweet you know there were maybe discussions that mcgann would have ultimately helped would have stayed until the confirmation of brett kavanaugh if that were to happen later this fall and then would leave afterward i think don again was a surprise as any of the rest of us when he saw the tweet this afternoon that he's apparently now definitely leaving in the fall and it's you know it it's a continuation of the way the president has handled terminations and personal disputes or matters over the years this is not the first time he's fired a staffer or at least announced the departure of a staffer by tweet and it's to some extent horrible management of an office another point here though larry is what led to it and to some extent we can only speculate
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that the president is handling began in this way because of his cooperation with the independent counsel and because of the fact that you know perhaps mcgann a scene is not sufficiently loyal to the president despite of course having helped get such an important portion of the president's agenda put into place. he's not delaying his deployment. report was your reaction to that. well who knows what what the important thing is there again his departure is now certain and it may have been up in the air until the president made clear with that tweet a little bit earlier as to when we can't number one cause we don't know when the report's going to come you know the president and his attorneys as you see i've seen rudy giuliani has been stressing now that as we approach september first that the report is imminent that the report is coming out right away well.
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