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jennifer. and. let us remind the audience that what's going on on the ground in sa is truly very dangerous but at the same time to politically speaking i think this is just the last drop politics on the ground that can be played by the turkish side the sort before eventually sitting on the table with an intermediary of the russian side with damascus and talking about how turkey will have to eventually leave the syrian land because it's syrian learn and that's the syrian air war we're trying to clean this land from terrorism so what is turkey doing there anyway. says he's in germany of held vigils for the 9 victims of last night's shooting in the west of the country the suspected attacker is believed to have had sent a photo with 5 victims being turkish nationals peter all of those more the story. 2 vigils have been taking place here in the german capital in response to the
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killings in the western city of now at the brandenburg gate that iconic symbol here in the center of berlin we saw people forming a human chain in solidarity with the people of haiti now also at another location in the city people saying that they've come out on to the streets against racism and semitism and right wing terrorism there's also been a vigil taking place in the city of her now where this incident took place frank falta steinmeier the german president who is in attendance there there have been other politicians out and about various events that have been taking place on thursday evening 9 people were killed 2 separate locations 2 she shipyards in the western city of head now not far from the major city of frankfurt a 42 year old man who is believed to be the main suspect was later found dead at his home alongside his 72 year old mother eyewitnesses who were there when the
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shootings took place that she should bars have described the scenes and what they saw and heard don't have such if you had to go i heard gunshots then i ran out and looked in the direction of the she should but i couldn't see anything i mean that the doors were open and people were running out of the other restaurants i heard from my neighbor that someone was shooting at the restaurant around back and told my guests to stay away from the window. i walked with my 2 little kids. before the shooting began we were actually 100 meters from the place when i went up stairs i heard 5 to 7 gunshots. you know i came home at half past 9 parked my car and went upstairs we watched some t.v. then my wife said there was a helicopter hovering overhead and i thought what's the matter we waited a little and then looked out the roof window and saw a large group of police officers. the 5 of them with about 20 vehicles and they surrounded the house it was
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a strange thing to see out of the attorney general is investigating links to right wing extremism in this case starts after a 24 page manifesto was found in the possession of the main suspect in that manifesto he talks about hatred of foreigners and non white people he talks about the extermination of certain nations in north africa or in the middle east and in central asia it's riddled with racist tropes as well as 'd being full of a far right ideology searches things like eugenics there's also a video that emerged that was published just a few days ago from this man this 42 year old german man who is the main suspect in this shooting in the shootings in this video which gives no clue that he may have been preparing to take a to carry out this attack he speaks in english it's understood it's being directed towards a u.s. audience and it's full of conspiracy theories really. what we have seen though
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is a number of politicians coming out in condemnation of this attack also the german chancellor angela merkel saying that there would be a full investigation and no stone would be left unturned. if it's too early to give a conclusive assessment everything is being done to find out what was behind this murder but a lot already suggests far right reeses not to absolve the attacker he apparently acted out of hatred towards people of different descent religion or appearance racism is a poison hatred is a poison and this poison exists in our society and has led to many crimes. so the feeling here in germany really one of sadness of mourning but certainly of anger that this was able to happen in the 1st place well in the wake of the shooting this. chairwoman of the ruling cd party was quick to bash rivals from the alternative germany party accusing them of having extremist tendencies in the
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interior to ensure its trial if you look at their texts profile it seems like he had racist xenophobia as well as far right motives and this strengthens me my believe therefore the c.d.u. you should always be clear not only for the c.d.u. but for all parties in germany that they can be no corporation with a party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade not since in monitoring so we are resolved to have no cooperation with the f.d.a. in any shape or form it's important to keep the spirals. tentative for germany it's more or less the parliamentary wing of a right wing movement and if not the right wing terrorists if they want or not they are the ones who give the key. to terrorists and collaboration by other parties with the what. but give this party more
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credibility in the eyes of the followers so we have a level in the public debate that is more of a charmed rational political debate and when i hear yesterday night about that shooting i instinctively knew that our opponents would blame us for being responsible for it it is completely ridiculous and i can only ask everyone to read that money festa of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we're doing and then it's all views that it's nonsense but nobody reads that money 1st 2 and so opponent think if they only repeat and repeat and repeat that we are somehow linked to that or that that this terrorist had links to us than enough people would believe in ok maybe it happens but it's just fake news and of course we fight against fake news. now for decades greece has been locked in a tug of war with the u.k.
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over the elgin marbles but it's a contest athens is never won however it does seem that breaks it could change all of that amid reports the historic sculptures could be part of trade negotiations with the e.u. the ancient elder marbles currently held and on display at the british museum they were shipped from athens back in the 19th century and greece has accused the u.k. of stealing its heritage but a government spokesperson did say that you case position hasn't changed. in the u.k. specifically not the parthenon sculptures remains unchanged they are the legal responsibility of the british museum that is not up for discussion as part of our trade negotiations we discussed this story with the cultural historian wendy earle and also with my once our political and social commentator. you can't go around the world nicking stuff and then just saying we're going to keep hold of it because it's really valuable and we want people to come and see it it just is awash now
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adays in a i hate saying it but in a relatively woken like in society people are asking for their stuff back and it's very hard to construct a case when we go around the world stealing stuff and don't get back i think history itself is a very complicated place to go history is complex we do very well in britain threat education system and so our western media missed telling and misstating it we we don't half pick and choose what and how we tell history i mean we can say that the item and this is the worst of it so stewardship of the times in me we should be trying to we should be trying to have a discussion about this rather than you trying to interrupt me and the point i know it's a case not only do i know he believes there is a history what we can do with these mothers now is continue to learn about history continue to understand their histories and continue to develop our knowledge by returning them back willy nilly to places that demand them we're not caring for the objects themselves we're not looking at these as. pieces of our heritage of global
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heritage every single argument you make for keeping them away can be used for returning them i'm sure the greek people you know the home of democracy some great thinkers you might consider will be able to figure out how to display this to the public we shouldn't be just using them as as kind of political footballs all taking the moral taking taking the moral high ground taking the moral high ground we live in a world that is constantly changing and we need to i think recognise that you know that these are bigger than the most just numbers in history my concern is that by not coming under the auspices of the european court of justice we're not going to be held accountable how on earth is the british government ever going to be held accountable for the sins that it commits as a state at home and overseas if we don't have a higher court to answer. so i think britain is is perfectly poised to be able to do exactly what it wants and i think in terms of breck's it that discussion about it is a discussion about democracy it's about there's no point in kind of 3 hashing old
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historical arguments when we are when i think we're in a completely new place where people in britain are thinking about how do we have a future with free of a bureaucracy outside of boston that we're not that is not accountable to us and how can we can tie the find our life turned around and losing argument. well ok that's your opinion. serious spreading in 3 ukrainian regions where protests have been held over the country's nationals being brought back from the coronavirus at the center in china the flight carrying 73 people evacuated from we can eventually land it in ukrainian city of harkov but now demonstrators have clashed with police in the time where the passengers and meant to be quarantined.
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so far ukraine has yet to see one case of the coronavirus but many people clearly are quite scared of even taking that chance in the region of laval's groups of protesters worse were seen blocking the streets to a major hospital where the passengers were supposed to be quarantined after arriving in the country riot police were quickly sent to the scene they could be seen dragging people from the streets and even some of them were hospital workers themselves now for the past couple days other skirmishers between protesters and the police have become widespread across the country but the. crimean authorities are saying are trying to reassure people that none of these passengers were affected or infected by the corona virus about half of them were ukrainian or
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ukrainian and the rest come from a number of different countries but all of them have been screened twice before being allowed to board the plane now the government's been trying to find a quarantine area for a while now and amidst all the chaos of these new protests president selenski says that these reactions are not really something to be proud of these reactions to something that was supposed to be a gesture of goodwill to help people in need it's a shame the not all of us can be proud of the humane reaction the efforts to shut off highways to blow coast bills not to let ukrainians back to ukraine we're not demonstrating the best of our character here especially given the majority of the passengers are under 30 to most of us they are almost children now the passengers are bound for a health center in the poltava region of ukraine but with such a negative reaction to something intended to be a gesture of goodwill we'll have to see how similar attempts in the future to fight the coronavirus fair if there are any at all. in other news tonight now kelly man
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he was believed to be leading the cole to prayer at a mosque in central london has been stabbed in the neck he's running reports now from the british capital. all we know so far is the gentleman the morrison is that school at this mosque in central london this is one of the 1st mosques to be established in the u.k. he was reading the call to prayer for the afternoon prayers around 3 or 330 in the afternoon when he was stabbed in the neck by another person who has since been arrested a 29 year old now just the gentleman the victim in question is said to be in his seventy's and he's in hospital now where he's expected to survive that attack despite it being the starting attack in the neck now we've spoken to some people who've been inside the mosque earlier this evening and in the off the moon and they say that according to officials here at the mosque the gentleman who's been
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arrested the man who's been arrested was seen here before he had been a visitor here but had perhaps been seen as somebody of an outsider were suspicious in some way so it's unclear whether this is someone who was an attendee of the mosque or someone who was possibly staking out in preparation for an attack like this in any case the police have released a statement they say they're not treating it as terrorists and at this time but of course tensions and fears will be high in the u.k. and specially amongst the muslim community here. u.k. home secretary has unveiled a new points based phase a system that is intended to reduce the amount of cheap migrant labor flowing into the country this is the 1st time in decades that government has been able to take control run its own immigration system ofter we've left the european union and free movement and low skilled migration to our country which means that we will get
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migration numbers down and that essential to this policy of a points based system the new system requires immigrants to prove their knowledge of the honorary requirement would also be needed ph d. qualify. specialists would receive extra points making it easier for them to gain entry but the new rules would have proven quite a challenge for those who've already made a career in the u.k. i don't know if i'd actually be in this country under these rules would you with your parents they wouldn't qualify it with this is a very different system to what is going on in the past and don't forget this is a point based system you make on the local market yet no new cases ins have until now made up a substantial part of the country's workforce with close to a 1000000 immigrants working in the low skill sector in 2018 the program a crap politician jonathan fry believes it won't take long day for the new system to reveal its faults really a very dangerous game that the home secretary is playing basically just to
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satisfy the promises that the conservative party made joy in the general election and to deliver briggs it as it was proposed many businesses have warmed but it's just unrealistic to assume that you can change the nature of the workforce in the way that the home secretary and presumably the prime minister want this doesn't solve the problem which i think is going to arrive very soon which is this country needs a lot of people in the top for the moment lower paid jobs basically what this new policy is saying is that the sort of work they're doing often for not very high pay is not being valued and that maybe they're not being valued as members of our society. finally this hour norwegian concrete has lost its legal bid for damages from the government over a botched attempt to recreate its employees working in russia as spies rif and
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small in the story. it drains like an unlikely story of a government with quite literally a concrete plan for spying now we join intelligence they used one of the country's successful companies to snoop on russia but when caught red handed the company has been left empty handed with its hugely lucrative contract ripped in pieces.
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early on but don't blame the regional authorities for that and filed a case against them but lost now is preparing to appeal we're running it will affect the country's business and its relations with russia it will for sure have great impact on other norwegian companies plan and activities in russia norway has a very hostile attitude towards its business in russia it is unclear whether the alleged attempt spied in the region intelligence services were successful or not but the company had been the only one to get the hard to win contracts with russia that surprised many people from. tough guys when i was minister of foreign affairs we were in contact with he struck me then there was actually no one who succeeded in russia except for one they did not come from the russian neighboring region nor did they have any of the natural conditions for success in the moment but they got it it seems that the battle is not yet over not until the courts final decision is
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i 1st heard about wiki leaks. from the helicopter footsie in iraq. i think it down to the people who remain in the u.s. military who have never forgiven him for it this guy's a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states illegally shoots out of the us really historic to have. independent journalist a guy with he's cute or it's closing soon is what crimes to a global audience. the idea of developing an anonymous digital drop box and applying it to a media organization that is what he likes that was the 1st. i didn't the toy anticipate that he would be for a short while world right and wrong one of the world's most powerful news organizations when you're in standard founder julian
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a song in the sun over the sun and there was a great deal of jealous in the mainstream towards him particularly why i wanted to be more like all that you seem all mean feces on the walls. just my. we have julian assange. in solitary confinement in the prison for terrorists to await you perhaps a life in person or person. i don't see in prison. and i think that's what he's facing. forward. intentions revived. in christian and maybe even 40 years ago or simply in the north sea at the time a pleasurable supply of. maj
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has or this is the kaiser report you know gold. it's part of history it's all history gold you can find out some interesting things about people history all kinds of good stuff stacie max we are here in mexico city mexico it used to be the capital of the aztec empire and you know what montezuma who ruled the aztec empire 500 years ago exactly well he has a lesson for us today the modern human about how to deal with cone keester doors and how we are still willed by the doors i have this headline here spanish conquistadores stole this gold bar from aztec emperor montezuma's true here
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is the actual and gold bar this is all the gold that montezuma had current car tests stole it he melted it down put it into bars this is just under 2 kilos here that they found under a street here in mexico city in 1901 it's been carbon dated to prove it is from 151920 when cortez sacked the city stole all their gold and it's worth about $100000.00 u.s. dollars say it still has value today so this is historical evidence of the country stars come here and stealing all the gold and this is the beginning really of a 500 year problem of having one's well stolen and of course is picked up by american the 1970 s. remember milton friedman and richest and ger they introduced neo liberalism into this area which was the idea that the can teach the doors are wall street and the federal reserve bank could could run riot all over latin america kill people kill
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leaders install puppet dictators steal more wealth steal aggro. ultra world and so this is a problem that's been going on for 500 years because it is the solution of because it is a way for everyone in these countries to regain their sovereignty against the doors of money and that's why you see the adoption rates in argentina venezuela mexico skyrocket a bit coy because they realize this is karma this is karma now the money pushers in washington and they're the ones who are going to end up at the bottom of the ocean and we're going to rise up well the credit he said or is that rule us now have an unfortunate future just like the spanish conquistadores did as well i reckon and for the same exact reasons and we'll get to that by the end of this episode if we get through this episode because you know montezuma's revenge is also a thing and it is coming well you know looking at this bar they show that
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