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DW Quarks July 12, 2024

Goes to indianapolis to find out about the hot button issues that all but guaranteed donald trump the back teeth of christian evangelical voters and 2 women when the 2020 nobel prize in chemistry for their work in developing a method for editing genomes and manual sharpened c. J. Of france and jennifer doubt to us were recognized for what the academy called rewriting the code of life. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program a court in greece has found the leaders of the countrys far right Golden Dawn Party guilty of running a criminal organization they face up to 15 years in prison a supporter of the group was also convicted of the murder of an anti fascist rapper in 2030. Outside of the Courthouse Police fired tear gas as scuffles broke out at a rally attended by thousands of anti fascist protesters the guilty verdicts capping marathon 5 year trial with almost 70 defendants. Im joined now by journalists and the carousel who is standing by in athens so what more do we know. Well the scuffles is actually pretty much died down there were pretty tense at some point and quickly after this verdict was sounded across the the courthouse initially there were kind of. Of celebration and clapping and applause but then quickly we saw these scuffles breaking out between far left activists and the police as a result he authorities struck back have fired tear gas to disperse them protesters also at the scene and. Tried to seek some kind of refuge in inside streets but at the same time however authorities are telling us that these 2000 plus peace men who were deployed for fear of violence today will remain on the ground in case there is yet another flare up of violence that we saw earlier today and meantime we know that the verdict it was released it took 5 years to reach this for dick why so long. Well this is being called the biggest trial of an anti fascist Organization Since the nuremberg trials and it was supposed to. Take for this to run for just 18 months but it well into greeces financial crisis that night and that there were a lot of stright lawyers who were refusing to attend sharon being down the courtroom there were also facilities that were not available i remember one instance they couldnt find a video projector to project evidence that was brought into the case by the prosecution also another circumstance where there was a key meeting in the room that forced the trial to be suspended but ultimately it also refract greece it is very very slow and problematic just this and how just takes forever to get things that judy kaye did here which of course however has become an issue for the government which believes in says in his firm in saying that it will want to remedy the situation what kind of implications does the verdict have now for the ruling of the government. Well for the government it really. Spouse nothing substantively because this was a work of justice and in fact for the particular government the conservative government this was something that it wanted was this particular government it was this particular party that launched this crackdown again golden dawn so there is a huge sigh of relief that that is not sprout the and. Far right extremism in greece with the end of this trial this stirred a lot of that look in around and that still has yet to be addressed fact of liams country and think anthy carr sava joining us from athens thank you. Lets turn now to some other stories making news around the world fresh clashes have broken out in care the Sands Capital bishkek following sundays contested parliamentary Elections Officials nullified the results of the cold overnight and agreed to nominate a new Prime Minister opposition groups to control of most of the government apparatus on tuesday after storming keep building as. Prosecutors have searched the offices of the German Football Association as well as homes of current and former d. S. P. Officials on suspicion of tax evasion 6 people are suspected of falsies declaring income leading to innovation of 4700000 euros worth of taxes. Facebook has banned from its platforms all accounts that support the q. And Conspiracy Movement the social Media Company says that the move is part of its efforts to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the u. S. Election q. And promotes stories alleging u. S. President trump is waging a secret war against an International Pedophile ring. And saying in the u. S. Democratic president ial candidate joe biden says that he and donald trump should not have a debate if the president is still infected with the coronavirus biden and trump are due to hold a 2nd televised debate next tuesday meanwhile the president has abruptly called off negotiations on a major coronavirus stimulus package for the u. S. Economy this after congress failed to Reach Agreement on a price tag democrats including biden blasted trump for abandoning the American Public in the middle of a pandemic the size of one of the bloodiest battles in the u. S. Civil war for you over here used as the backdrop for joe bidens cool from unity thank you. Today once again were a house divided. But that my friends can no longer be we are facing too many crises we have too much work to do we have to Brighter Future to have a it shipwrecked on the shoals of anger and hate and division. It is president ial opponent appears to delight in division donald trump may still be recovering from cope with 19 but hes refused to let that stop play in a series of tweets about toolbox with democrats over Coronavirus Relief legislation the president declared i have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election. U. S. Stocks fell sharply on that bombshell. Hours later trump appeared to row back a bit demanding congress approve extra cash for the Airline Industry as well as calling for handouts to help struggling americans. It all adds to a sense of chaos in the white house trumps team trying to keep his Reelection Campaign on track while the corona virus continues to spread. Here with the president s Senior Adviser in chief speechwriter Stephen Miller just the latest to test positive. Trump continues to play down the virus even up to his 3 days in hospital. Joe biden says he wont debate the president if he still infected well. I think if we do our program we should have a very. Good trump insist there face to face next week will go ahead Division Even here and yet this show goes on. A lot of the breakdown here and we are joined by correspondent my a stranger who is standing by in washington my id like to begin 1st with the debates because were looking at 2 more president ial debates that are planned later tonight the v. P. Debate is going to take place what should we be expecting. Yes certainly never a dull moment in washington what were going to be looking for tonight is we are looking at Vice President pence to smooth over shall we say somewhat rough performance that people have been saying President Trump gave in the 1st president ial debate now pence is a career politician a much more conventional politician and he is going to be looking to emphasize the good parts of trumps presidency the fact that the president up until recently had a strong record on the economy a lot of job creation and now a harris is task here is to make pence answer for everything that the truck administration has done wrong she is a career prosecutor shes known for these kind of very strong lines of questioning when shes in the senate but this is the 1st time that weve ever seen her in one of these one on one debate formats now the debate is going to be we can very well fairly assume all about cove it all about the pandemic with the president that is theoretically still recovering from it or recently had it appends is also the head of the task force the president ial task force to condemn the contain the pandemic and there is a lot to talk about there is the pandemic fallout there is the lack of economic recovery and harriss job is going to be go in there and make pens answer for all of this now and interesting thing to note by the way is that both of these candidates are going to be watched very closely because the president ial candidates who they represent are both in their seventys and harris especially eyes are going to be on her absolutely and lets talk a little bit more about the fact that trump has had 19 he might still be contagious how is this affecting the campaign now going forward. This is really much the 1000000 dollar question sarah we can assume that trump wants to pick up his Campaign Schedule you know those big rallies with thousands of his supporters thats what gives him his energy thats what he really loves doing thats what his supporters love is the centerpiece of his campaign and while he was in the hospital over the weekend he had to postpone or outright cancel several big rallies in some big key swing states so the campaign is going to be struggling to make up some ground there the Biden Campaign on the other hand is going to be using this to draw a bright line between how the Trump Administration has handled that pandemic versus how biden would handle a pandemic emphasizing more health care for everyone emphasizing their Pandemic Recovery plan their economic Recovery Plan and going really hard in these swing states maya straighter joining us from washington thank you. Well one of the issues that is always a hot button question in the u. S. Is abortion prolife evangelical christians make up a significant body of the electorate and for them a candidate stance on abortion is often the ultimate Decision Maker went to indianapolis to meet some young religious voters with no doubt about whos box will tick on november 3rd Chris Uhlmann ring meets fellow activists they are all devoted to the calls for student found inspiration in the bible which she takes this route. They are on their way to an Abortion Clinic to try to persuade women to keep their pregnancies. And like her make up 25 percent of us voters most of them share a central goal to ban abortion. We are kind of the the last stop before that abortion we want to reach them one more time and so thats why were here its my duty to do what i can do here to persuade as many people to not have abortions as possible but ultimately thats in gods hands and one day they will have to give an answer to god. She and her fellow activists believe donald trump is as committed as they are to banning abortion abortion is such an important issue in our time and i cannot trust a president who believes that abortion is ok without the right to life we have nothing so if were taking away and its a wifes no one has right the right to life is so important and im seeing that from him and thats why i will be voting for him. Politics professor laurel from the university of indianapolis has been analyzing trumps supporters the evangelical vote is critical to Donald Trumps reelection theyve been essential part of his base since he began running in 2016 and even though sometimes the president has wavered on policy issues the evangelicals have never wavered on their support for him theres no generation gap in terms of the evangelical bloc you see this with Younger Voters obviously with older voters in their support as well and you dont see a difference in terms of age. Christina studying to be a nurse in her spare time shes already trying to save lives one way talking with people about abortion another way she says. For trump theres a lot about donald trump that i dont like that i dont agree with but in the areas that he does promote truth and justice i pray that god would bosss administration heavenly father we thank you that you are of author of life and that prayer over those crucial support for her and her friends they are also praying for donald trump but he recovers and is reelected to fight with them against abortion. And now a court in kenya has found 2 men guilty of involvement in an islamist attack on a Shopping Mall in nairobi back in 2013 at least 67 people were killed in the mass shooting and subsequent days long seen age at the upmarket westgate complex the court said that the 2 men helped launch the attack carried out by the somalia based militant Group Alshabaab a 3rd defendant was acquitted. And from the court in nairobi i am joined now by mary of. East Asia East Africa correspondent excuse me mariel was this verdict expected. So the verdict didnt provide much comfort to the families of the victims they expected new insights from this ruling and also they actually expected that you know more suspects would be in the stock and also more suspects you know could be behind bars in the future but actually this ruling does this convicted to a man that where here in court today they. And 2nd they were not the masterminds of the attack they were also not the attackers themselves they attacked us themselves believed to be either dead or fled the scene during the 4 days siege when the attack happened in 2013 lets talk a little bit about the whole length that it actually took to to render this verdict why did it take so long. So this is the 1st high level complex terrorism case thats been tried in kenya so you have to collect a lot of evidence to actually make the case and that means that you have to determine you know if these suspects are actually have supported this terrorist organization to do that you have to trace the money you have to trace the phone calls you have to attribute those phone calls to the suspects they use alliss they use money mules and so its very difficult to build such a case and you want to build it meticulously because you cant afford to have any mistakes that you make any mistakes so because otherwise the public and the people in kenya they lose they lose trust into the judiciary system here this was such a horrific attack from al shabaab militants marielle just walk us through how high the risk is remaining that Something Like this happens again in kenya. So since the Westgate Mall attack in 2013 there have been several and even deadly attacks in kenya and also in somalia committed so just to name just to remind you of 2 of them saw in 2015 there was a gruesome attack on the university in northern kenya in which more than 140. 00 students and Staff Members were killed or just here in nairobi and close to here at a luxury hotel last year theres been an attack of which more than 20 people died actually so if you ask kenyans they dont you know they dont ask themselves if theres going to be a next attack but when d. W. East africa correspondent marion will the thank you. Well now the winner of the prestigious nobel prize in chemistry has been announced in stockholm this year the prize goes to the french scientists emmanuelle shop and t. A. And Jennifer Doudna from the u. S. For the development of a method for genome editing the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences said that the technology is contributing to new therapies against cancer and inherited diseases they ward comes with the shared prize money of around 1000000. 00 giraffes very much and speaking about her when earlier and berlin here is Nobel Laureate emmanuel shop and today. Yes she did extremely well know them and to receive. Use for cognition from sweden i mean it sounds surreal that i says but i could not believe it even though i knew that. One day the 20th up owns that crash to digest it and realize that it has happened lets get more on that i am joined by Derrick Williams from d. W. Science here in the studio derek was the surprise it wasnt a surprise its for one of the 1st times ever since ive been reporting on this it wasnt a surprise these these 2 researchers are kind of rock stars and in the science world because this discovery that they made really only 8 years ago has really changed completely changed the landscape and in a huge range of fields ranging from from from what we understand about how genes work so basic fundamental research to the Cancer Research to genetically modifying plants its had its made all of those things possible and so its not surprising in the least in fact i think they probably would have gotten it earlier if not for the fact that theres been an ongoing sort of patent battle and patent battle and with another group where dahl knows sort of famously said well you know we discovered tennis balls and they discovered green tennis balls and and. Actually i think that the Nobel Committee has sent a signal by only honoring the 2 of them to send a signal that that bats actually what they believe as well and its really time and now that those issues have been largely resolved its really time for them to get the prize so then lets break it down get into the details of what makes it so special well its about genetic engineering and the problem is basically the mechanics of it are a little too difficult a little too complicated to go into but basically they created whats called what everybody calls genetic scissors which which is this molecular tool that allows you to cut d. N. A. And not only cut it but cut it into very specific precise plates which is really everything when youre when youre editing genes you have to cut it in very specific specific precise places because otherwise you get off target effects and not only that but this molecular tool that they came up with is also relatively simple to use compared to older systems weve been able to do this for several decades but the older systems really

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