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Not guilty they were accused of failing to mitigate the disaster that came in the wake of the 2011 tsunami. And canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says hes sorry he apologizes after Time Magazine publishes a picture of him wearing brown face makeup but cancer you know survive the scandal in the middle of a heart octo action campaign. Also the murder mystery thats and brawling germany this man was the victim a former chechen leader living in berlin this is the park now under police guard where he was gunned down and the question everyone is asking was russia behind the killing. Im irish waiter its good to have you with us. Both of the main political leaders in israel have said they want to Form Coalition governments following tuesdays inconclusive election result Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his main rival centrist benny gantz to join him in a coalition under his own leadership gaunts whose blue and white party narrowly took the most knesset seats has said he also wants a coalition but with out and with himself as Prime Minister israels president van rivlin is set to start consultations on the countrys next Prime Minister on sunday. Joining us now is our correspondent tonya kramer reporting from jerusalem so tanya what did gantz say at this press conference that we saw earlier does he have a vision for how unity government would work. Well but hes basically saying it is. Blue and white won the elections they have the 2 seat lead over the likud 3233231 thats if there is a unity government and he strongly committed to a unity government said they floated this idea during the Election Campaign all along that it would be and that the terms of a blue and white not what mr netanyahu wants and i think the most important thing he said is that if such a unity government would be for him then it would be under his leadership so this would be the end you know for mr netanyahu probably thinking maybe about. Your taste in the premiership or Something Like that and mr netanyahu had already said hes disappointed by this response. So blue and white and many guns more or less claiming victory even though the election result was so close is this a vision that netanyahu and his likud party could possibly buy into. I think really the early days and i think both sides you know trying to do is to basically set out their terms and telling the other party well were willing to do our best to form a unity government but its very hard to see how that will actually bridge the gap i mean blue and white has said many guns has said that they would sit with him he could in the unity government but. Unity government without netanyahu because they dont want to sit with a Prime Minister who is under possible indictment for corruption charges they have. Made that very clear and also if any guns has criticised in his statement that. Netanyahu is coming already with his own set of ideas actually what happened since yesterday Benjamin Netanyahu said together with his traditional potential partners the smaller right wing parties the National Religious i mean and the other 2 also talks parties and they have said they will only come together and negotiate together where spending guns in his statement that he wants to see a broad and liberal government and that netanyahu contacts hate and you terms to the negotiations tanya kramer for us in jerusalem thank you so much and then well bring you some of the other stories making news around the world at least 30 people have been killed after a u. S. Drone strike in the east of afghanistan its target was an Islamic State hideout but it struck a nearby field meanwhile a taliban car bomb flattened a hospital in the south of the country at least 20 people were killed and scores more injured its the 3rd straight day of violence in afghanistan ahead of the president ial election. Liberia is in mourning after a fire at a koran school killed at least 26. 00 children and 2 teachers in the capital monrovia the boys were sleeping in the School Dormitory when the blaze broke out fire officials believe a faulty electric cable may be to blame. The European Commission says it has received new documents from the British Government document how to rework the rejected brakes that divorce deal as the 2 sides tried to reach a compromise britain insists it will not meet an artificial deadline but make the formal submissions when it is ready or no we have. A Japanese Court has acquitted 3 former officials who were in charge of the Fukushima Nuclear plant that went into meltdown after the tsunami in 2011 it was the only criminal trial to start from the disaster the 2 for the former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power company or tepco faced up to 5 years in prison if found guilty of professional negligence. For the victims of the fukushima disaster thursdays verdict was a bitter disappointment a Japanese Court exonerated 3 former executives in the only criminal trial over the Nuclear Meltdown those who had hoped to see them convicted vented their frustration. We cannot understand it we are not satisfied. In these 8 and a half years so many people were forced to leave their houses. Forced to leave their homeland. And still remain displaced and unable to decide where to live. How would you feel if your house today were taken away from you. 7 7 but this is extremely frustrating. The 3 men have been senior officials at tepco the company that run the Fukushima Daiichi plant the court cleared them of professional like the germans finding them not guilty of causing the deaths of 44 patients whose health deteriorated after being evacuated from a local hospital. The tragedy was triggered 1st by an earthquake then came a tsunami finally a Nuclear Disaster after 3 of the plants reaction cores melted down. Hundreds of thousands fled from their homes to escape the radiation the ground and water around fukushima remain contaminated even today many homeowners arent allowed to return the cleanup work by tepco is expected to last decades. Those whose lives have been affected continue to take to the streets and independent commission concluded the disaster was manmade and foreseeable and that it could have been avoided with Better Safety planning Previous Court rulings have ordered millions of dollars in compensation to be paid out. The plaintiffs in the criminal trial are now considering an appeal a final bid in the long search for accountability. Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized after a picture of him wearing brown face makeup was published in Time Magazine a photo was taken in 2001 when trudeau was a teacher and attended a Costume Party trick told reporters he was deeply sorry but the story is a bombshell in the middle of a tense Canadian Election year but have a hobbit of haunting politicians this 2001 photo of Justin Trudeau in brighton face is no different. Clearly rattled the canadian Prime Minister at pains to apologize in 2001. I was a teacher in vancouver i attended an individual gala the theme was arabian nights. Dressed in a latin costume and put makeup on it was something that i didnt think was racist at the time but now i recognize it was something racist to do and i am deeply saddened when you take on this scandal feel to the fire of canadas Election Campaign. Wearing brown faces an act of open market and race it was just as racist in 2001 as it is in 2018 but what comedian saw to see is someone with a complete lack of judgment and integrity and someone whos not fit to govern especially trudeau launched his reelection bid last week just as reports of marriage that police are investigating claims he had corruption charges dropped against an Engineering Company but for someone who has made political he out of his support for multiculturalism this could be more damaging. Well its troubling i mean really its insulting. Any time we hear examples of brown face or black facing its really its its making a mockery of someone for what they live and what the relived experiences are. I think his answer for it and hes going to answer the question why he did that perhaps more than the charge of racism this image will lead to questions of most dentists and whether justin true to is indeed the poster boy of liberalism that he claims to be. From or on this im joined by g. W. Reporter peter dahl so peter this certainly doesnt look good for anyone but definitely not Justin Trudeau who is a major western leader in the middle of a campaign yeah i think thats putting it mildly right i mean really this is just the latest chapter in what appears to be a pretty dramatic fall from grace for Justin Trudeau remember just 4 years ago he rode into office on on his rainbow of optimism right he was being billed as a canadian obama he had developed almost a cult following thanks to you know his model good looks and viral photos of him and gravity defying yoga poses and it really made in the heart throb of people around the world you know female and male and for many he was seen as the beginning of a new era in canadian politics he ran on a very liberal agenda and his cabinet was the most diverse and canadian history. Unlike many of us precesses he actively sought to make amends for cannons colonial sense and so i think all this taken together its image sense and such stark contrast to the photo that just emerged so many voters are now wondering whats all that just an act so brown in black face has all along rather derogatory history for those who dont know what is so offensive about it well it was born out of racism it became a centerpiece of White American Popular Culture in the mid to late 1903 actors would paint their face black and you know these big bright red lips and perform these incredibly demeaning characters of black people painting them as basically subhuman let me show you what im talking about here no you may not have a permanent examination to man can mean i dont know them and now i dont have any. And so this tradition continued well into the 20th century with stars like judy garland you see here betraying black people as you know feeble minded global shuck and jive and jokes and it really was a way to keep black people in their place make sure to show them as unfit for equal treatment and you know this history has been well documented and the tradition needs to be very evident yet we see black face continuing to pop up here and there still today yet it really continues to haunt us right and especially in the u. S. Where similar scandals have emerged just in recent months or weeks even with white people in power. Just last month we saw the governor of alabama kay ivy who was forced to apologize after it was revealed that she had one black face in college this came after Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was almost 4 to step down after photos of his medical School Yearbook showed him in black face and its not just politicians see right here fashion label gucci had. To pull this water from his collection falling complains that it resembled blackface yeah isnt racism just so fashionable also now the flip side of the argument is these things happened many decades ago they were students when this happened is it fair to hold these politicians to account now i absolutely think it is it is specially in the case of trudeau he was born in the seventys he is 47 today he was not a product of the sekret geishas fiftys and sixtys the way friends and i view and or north of were right he came of age when brought a king was beaten to a pulp in l. A. He knows what racism looks like and so when he decided to wear the brown face as a 29 year old teacher at that we had already entered the 21st century to say that he didnt consider racist at the time its either frankly ignorant or disingenuous and im not sure which is worse not a not a great excuse all right peter dahl for us thank you so much thank you well here in germany a murder mystery possibly involving a russian agent has been capturing the headlines a month ago a chechen Asylum Seeker was shot dead in broad daylight in a berlin park his alleged killer was arrested quickly and his passport showed him to be a russian citizen the victim had been a chechen leader in the war which i think he was killed because of his role in the chechen who most of. All his problems started when he came back from the war ship in. The name of the lead to the gunman. According to his passport he arrived in germany shortly before the attack possibly using a fake identity the Investigative Group but in kid believes a cessation may have been ordered by the russian secret service. To indeed sooner given zisha all steamed pos the clues are in the passport used by the subject and in his visa application. Pass. Out. The name given on the passport doesnt exist in any russian database and also into fitness. And moscow order the killing. Says the end of august to the suspected assassin has been held in this building prison and is mounting into silence his russian passport was issued under the name but in circles a false identity according to media reports so the suspicion the confounds Russian Secret Services would become the focus of the petition. To the in state prosecutors who want to comment on speak relation about russian involvement. With the into the motive behind the attack is difficult to pinpoint we havent found any evidence of a classic motive from the world of organized crime we havent found any personal motive between the parties and presume it is more to move the cases being followed across europe so gilligans q. Is a german member of the European Parliament he says spell in slow call authorities are overwhelmed and wants federal prosecutors to take over the industry gauge. I think it would be wrong here to hesitate because it is about our resilience as a country and it is about our security situation and threat its better to act fast and a situation like this. But the official reaction so far has been to slow film on on the t. V. Even though she knows the situation sensitive. Case has the potential to shake up german russian relations. But to discuss this more now in the studio is our security expert so will this case indeed shake up german russian relations it could do so in this case definitely could cause a deep rift in german russian relations and thats why Government Official so far reacted extremely cautiously when being asked to comment on that case if there is any proof that the russian state ordered the killing of mr Congress Really in the heart of berlin than germany would have would be forced to show a shop political reaction meaning perhaps even new sanctions against russia but if you launch such a process you have to be 100 percent sure otherwise imagine what would happen if you falsely accuse the state to be behind such a crime it would end up in a diplomatic disaster for germany that absolutely and thats perhaps one of the reasons why investigators have been keeping their findings so far under wraps if theyve even found anything at all about how likely do you think that there is a Foreign Service behind the killing of Congress Really could it have been the russians right now john investigators are trying to find out who that guy that alleged killer really is they are checking his identity the guy is in custody here in berlin and hes showing absolutely no will to cooperate there were some news. Paper reports here in germany that a u. S. Secret service gave some material related to that case to the drum some evidence that shows that the alleged killer has connections to russian state bodies and theres a Research Platform that claims that the possible the alleged killer has used to travel to germany was issued by a german by Russian Agency which used to issue possible its for russian secret agents but the drum investigators are staying silent on all that so theres some bread crumbs there but just for background what interest would moscow have in seeing Congress Really dead he was a chechen leader 20 years ago and he is reportage to have been a very successful military leader he was a war lot in the 2nd chechen war he was leading commanding a brigade in the real warfare against the russians after the war he fled to jaw drop where he stayed used took some refuge with relatives and he is reported to have worked for the georgian secret service then he left to ukraine where he stayed a year or so eventually he made it to berlin where he asked for asylum so mr Congress Really had many enemies not only in russia not only among the highs and ranks of his wall time and abuse thats what investigators say off the record but if you analyze that case politically i think russia has no interest in spoiling the relations especially to berlin russia right now is following a repeat entry strategy of president putin wants to break off the diplomatic isolation of his country and he wants to get rid of the sanctions so why should all this be endangered by killing by russia in the heart of berlin just a mile away from the transferee security expert Kristen Tripp i thank you so much. The egyptian city of alexandria was founded by alexander the great more than 2000 years ago and is now wrestling with the effects of Climate Change rising sea levels threaten to inundate poor neighborhoods and archaeological sites authorities are responding with emergency measures and most importantly the erection of concrete barriers out at sea to hold back the tide. The threats pounds the shore every few seconds. At stake ancient citadels and archeological finds. Sandy beaches and poor neighborhoods which could be inundated by rising sea levels for protection simple if ugly concrete blocks lifted by enormous cranes. And filled rock lifted by dinosaur like diggers. Theyre meant simply to buy some time and a chance to rebuild someday some of what has already been lost. They will protect the shore from any sort of erosion in order to be able in the future to rebuild sandy shores that were lost due to a rise in sea levels over alexandrias coast you. Saw this with the 15th century citadel of bay is one of alexandrias gems and its already been affected by the rising sea. A lot. Citadel was built on a huge rock and the last few years this rock has faced a lot of strong currents that lead to its solution and gaps have appeared to years ago water leakage through those gaps to the interior of the citadel itself this means that if we hadnt started immediately with protection procedures it would have led to the collapse of the rock and the citadel it would have the. Alexandrias more than 60 kilometers of waterfront is losing ground to erosion if the average tourist cant see it the average fisherman cant. For all the input sea levels getting higher is not something that we can see immediately with our eyes. But over the years it started to be noticeable. It was for instance the sandy beaches shrink and there was less sand. Below but still not to the level that ordinary people can see. To close to the side even though. Ordinary environmental scientists can see it a rise in the level of the c m knock on effect of Climate Change. Thats just thought through. But actually climate is a system to get at the system so when you talk about changing. The different patterns of play. This would lead to one of the impacts of Climate Change is the rise you see the. Fending off the effects of Climate Change is centuries old alexandrias bird preserving precious structures from the past using whatever means from the present it can quickly throw in mother natures way. And issues with Climate Change are also casting a shadow over the formula one grand prix which begins in singapore on friday organizers are concerned that thick smog from forest fires in neighboring indonesia could cause Serious Problems for practice and sundays race experts say the air quality in singapore has worsened to unhealthy levels organizers of the formula one race say they have a contingency plan in case the haze affects sundays nighttime race but they have not given any further details. And a reminder of the top stories were following for you israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a Coalition Government put him in the top top centrist leader benny gantz also wants to form a coalition but without that and yeah and with himself as Prime Minister. Youre watching the w. New asia is coming up next with the sudden death of a giant panda. In thailand a provoked public anger in china. 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