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DW DW News - News July 18, 2018

Breached competition rules with its android operating system for smartphones and tablets also a new report out here in germany says anti semitism is on the rise we meet a jewish Restaurant Owner who says hes facing a spike in threats and abuse plus reconciliation efforts in mosul a year after socalled Islamic State was driven out of iraqs second city in an exclusive report we follow a district mayor trying to build a lasting peace from the rooms by the fears the task may take a hundred years. And south africa marxists and tenor of former president Nelson Mandelas birthday will take a look at the empty apartheid icons legacy both at home and elsewhere around the world. The man. I am. Mark its great to have you along everyone and we begin our broadcast with some much needed good news that doesnt tie voices that more than two weeks trapped in a flooded cave have spoken to the media about their ordeal after a Daring Rescue they call the miracle they spent the past week recovering in a hospital in chiang rai and now theyre finally returning home to their families. The team that beat all the odds their opponents nature and time the twelve boys from the wild boars are out of hospital and on their way home they showed little sign of having spent over two weeks trapped in a flooded cave with just one flashlight and nothing to eat they say they tried to dig their way out and avoid thinking about food. There was water dripping down from the roof of the cave. So we were able to drink that. I told everyone to fight and never give up. The team and their coach had ventured into the caves in the chiang rai province after football practice ignoring warnings about dangerous Monsoon Floods a massive search effort was launched when they failed to return despite no one knowing if the boys were even alive. Nine days later they were found safe divers carried out an unprecedented rescue operation over three days racing against rising water and falling oxygen levels the extraction of water was decided by the team those who lived furthest from the caves where the first out. Safe in hospital the boys paid tribute to a thai diver who died during the operation all say they now want to join the ranks of the navy seals who rescued them. The thai people are jubilant at the outcome. Im happy to pass safe and healthy and are now able to return to their parents. Out of hospital they can now finally meet their friends and once again kick a football. Arent there for inertia coverage the a dramatic rescue operation in chiang rai and it was also there today when the boys addressed the reporters at the press conference and for you now the voice said that their rescue was a miracle what else did they have to say. Well there were quite a few things that i found very remarkable in that press conference for once the coach told us that the first night when they were trapped in that cave he wasnt actually too worried because they felt the rain and the water that was inside the cave what actually subside by the next morning and they would just be able to go home maybe they would get a little scolding from the parents because they were lost for one night but it was only after the first days that daunted on them that they would be in there for a lot longer than they expected now another thing that was quite hot breaking i thought was when the only boy that speaks a Little English told the journalists about the First Encounter with the with the british diver who actually found them and he said that he even though his brain was very very slow thats what he said you have to muster you know the Little English that you house in order to communicate between the group and the divers and he said that he was actually quite surprised to find out that the first person that would get to them was not a thai and would actually speak english so that was something that i found quite remarkable in that press conference and that boys played such a pivotal role. How did they look to you after this terrible ordeal that they went through. They seemed surprisingly unfazed by this whole Media Attention they were giving the victory sign they were smiling they were waving so they seemed in very good spirits and it was also the child psychologist who was at the press conference who said that theyre actually in good in good health not just physically but also mentally. And that whats next for you and for the boys. Well we were told last week already that the boys would even after being discharged from the hospital they would not go back to school right away they would probably stay home for another month be close to their families try to you know slip back into their normal lives and we didnt get any new information during that press conference but i would assume that it will still be a few weeks before they can actually return back to school and a story in the press conference that you attended was tightly controlled by the thai authorities why. Well for once the press conferences entire press conferences in thailand not the press conferences that we would have in the u. S. Or in europe so asking open questions maybe even critical questions is not really all that common here in thailand now with that specific press conference i think the main reason was just that the authorities wanted to protect the boys and they wanted to make sure that journalists would not ask questions that would make the boys relive their traumatic experience again so all the Media Outlets had to submit questions before hand these questions were vetted by psychologists and then put to the boys by a moderator so it was basically not really a press conference it was a casual talk on stage so this is what i make of this so it was Just Protection for the boys and no no staged effort by the government of florida reporting a from what we have been waiting for for so long to see the boys happy and healthy and their coach thank you so much for in for your continued coverage. Are going to like to send you over now to daniel with a story on how youre punished tech giant thats right and it is a huge sign that its the highest ever penalty imposed for breaching the e. U. s trust rules the European Commission handing google a multi billion euro fine for abusing its dominant market position with the mobile operating system android four point three billion euros thats the record fine google is facing off to e. U. Regulators find it in breach of trust rules the charges relate to googles android operating system used by phone makers including samsung and while way e. U. Officials say forcing money factories to preinstall apps like you tube and google maps in exchange for enabling the download of other floyds run ops amounts to unfair competition google maintains its within its rights to set preconditions for the use of its Services Competition authorities reject that argument in the company of marginalizing its rivals. In this way google has used android as a vehicle to cement it stubborn and as a Search Engine these practices they have tonight rivals a chance to innovate and to compete on the merits they have knowledge european consumers the benefit of effective competition in this very important world was fair. The ruling comes a year after each trust regulators find google two point four billion euros for unfairly favoring its own Shopping Service google wont have trouble finding the cash to pay its fine the Company Reportedly hold several tens of billions of euros in cash reserves. About being forced to change its Business Model could hurt the company more phone makers are no longer forced to preinstall android. Ad revenue could be hit hard the internet giant says it will appeal the fine. And weve tapped into our top team on this for you Business Reporter and calm ousmane from our social media just joining me now so do you know a lot of people saying you know also google just preinstalled some apps whats the big deal but this goes far beyond the indeed its not all its not just about having to preinstall absence also that google prevented alternatives to these apps being from being preinstalled by paying the manufacturers not to preinstall anything else so by having all these google apps package together in a sort of default bundled setting was able to gather that much more user data and have so much more instant realize state on which to sell out so multiply it out among two billion Android Devices being used around the world in a single month and you have some idea of scale and so this isnt just about shutting out other app manufacturers this is about the Business Model that allowed google to get bigger and richer and more difficult to challenge so thats what makes the competition issue and thats what brought us to where we are today grabbing the headlines of course is this massive fine but how will google be forced to change android because the fine is just really a drop in the bucket for them will do users actually notice anything change well it has ninety days to change these practices but the fact is that you know also it said it was contesting the ruling that doesnt save it from having to comply but we have to remember that this is a decision that some meant to get google to change its behavior and not the behavior of say phone makers and users so theoretically users might download other Third Party Apps apart from google if a preinstalled google version isnt there but just because they can doesnt mean theyll start now of course consumers in the e. U. Could just keep using google services. Because they know that and phone makers themselves are still free to fund all these google apps if they want to its just that google isnt allowed to tell them to do that and more so you may have the likes of samsung and huawei deciding that continuing on as before makes the most sense at them so really how much this will significantly change googles business is kind of questionable because one thing is well people dont really know what alternatives are there are two android all as well theres not much out there. Operating systems go you are left over anymore you dont really have windows on the street anymore toll so theres not much choice out there lets turn to social media now would you call social media seems split on this but firstly what googles competitors say yet those of the two camps right now on social media googles competitors obviously they welcome this decision they think its the right one and we can start by showing you actually the response from yelp the company has been a big critic of google in the past and so they praised the move in this blog post saying that the e. U. Commissioner has removed the straight jacket that google has placed on innovation with android and adding this google decision to ignore its meritocratic processes in favor of their own content causes direct measurable consumer harm speaking of alternatives duck duck go is a smaller Search Engine is very privacy oriented they also came out today in favor of this decision and the company to we did we welcome the e. U. Cracking down on googles anticompetitive search behavior we have felt its effects firsthand for many years and it has led to us directly having less market share on android vs i o s and on mobile in general in fact the company went on to cite a couple of examples of how google has affected his business it pointed out that until last year it was impossible to add a duck duck go to the chrome browser on android phones this is something clearly google had done on purpose to try to keep competitors away and keep it search dominant. As you know say ok thats on the one hand but on the other hand theres plenty parts of the tech world who are coming out in defense of google yet its really interesting to see how passionate both of these sides are people are defending google you know in fact a lot see this really as kind of another shot fired by europe in this war against Silicon Valley theres been a lot of big billion dollar billion euro fines levied in fact many who support google in this they argue look actually google was more increasing competition than limiting it and just heres one of those responses here from social media thomas big dell hes a tech analyst hes actually based in denmark he says hey im not saying googles perfect but were talking about competition in and innovation android has single handedly allowed the mobile smartphone space to turn into what it is today imagine if we didnt have android in the market was instead just apple i o s and Windows Phone google as we heard they plan to appeal the decision and the company is already defending itself online with quite an interesting little video here its kind of a cheeky little response to people who say you know you cant install a competitors app this is directly from google here they are showing an example of how easy it is and how many seconds it takes to delete for example the chrome browser and install Something Like opera interesting way i just found this out the opera browser on android guess what the default Search Engine is in opera Google Google and this is. That its only google so even in their example theyre giving us a way to continue using the Google Search function its difficult to get away from google it seems common from on social media to. Loan from business thank you very much for joining us and thats if your business will be back with a little bit more later on in fact now its back over to let me thank you so much daniela or to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. Government forces bombarded the syrian town of now on near the is really border after talks with opposition fighters failed activists say over a dozen people were killed and more than one hundred wounded now is the largest opposition holdout left in south western syria. Or both turkey says at least nineteen migrants drowned earlier today after their boat sank off the coast of Northern Cyprus more than one hundred people were rescued by turkish and Turkish Cypriot coast guards search is underway for another two dozen people who are missing. Former British Foreign secretary Boris Johnson says there is still time to save briggs it during a speech in the u. K. Parliament he criticized the government for not acting on months of negotiations he also described an agreement on the future of ties with the e. U. As a miserable permanent limbo. Sweden is struggling to contain dozens of wildfires burning in forests that have experienced high temperatures and little rain in recent months an estimated forty four fires are scorching the western and northern parts of the country norway and it lead have sent helicopters and water bombing planes to help. Colombias outgoing president one man who has sent us has told d. W. News he was ashamed of the countrys history of xor traditional killings sanchez says he changed government policy which led to soldiers murdering civilians and dressing them up as far guerrillas to justify them as combat kills all this is colombia tries to implement a peace deal with rebels to and decades of violence you talked about no impunity in the deal with the but lets talk about the cases of socalled false positives in your army where soldiers massacred innocent civilians and pretended they were terrorists or this in order to boost their results and take advantage of bonuses and rewards thousands thousands of the shameful fame thousands of horses the government of colombia consistently played this term didnt pay discipline for not they told the Un Rapporteur in two thousand and nine the practice was not widespread and that such an awful killings were isolated instances turned out to be allied and they werent isolated incidents you know who stopped those false positives i did. Start the first what they were taking later and you were defense minister well and thats why i took action and they went down to zero zero no more false positives and those responsible for four supposed to have they have to go to the to serve justice and be judged and condemned. And you can no watch the full interview on a conflict zone coming up in just under three hours time all right now a new study has been released here in berlin investigating anti semitism a new forms that hatred directed against jews have taken including Holocaust Denial conspiracy theories and hate speech while for four years researchers in the german capital monitors sites like Twitter Facebook and youtube along with blogs and online forums its on these platforms and outlets that anti semitism is especially widespread and vitriolic while the research has found it wasnt only right wing extremist spreading their anti semitic views increasing numbers across the political spectrum were found to be feeding anti jewish stereotypes also when criticizing this state of israel and Thomas Sparrow has been looking into this story for us and he joins us now thomas there you are good to see you a lot of cost for concern there. Indeed there is a lot of a lot of concern there thats correct and there are Different Reasons why this seems to be a concern because were talking here about different forms of antisemitism most anti semitic incidents in germany do come from the sort of normal if you will thats how its been described form of antisemitism namely from the far right seen from far right extremists but politicians have been very quick to mention here in germany that in recent months or in recent years theres another form of antisemitism and that other form is brought by refugees that have come to the country and refugees that do not necessarily know the history of germany or germanys historical responsibility and thats why its become an increasingly important challenge for german politicians to deal with these different types of anti semitism they said on the one

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