[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-07-02

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  1. English Videos
    1. Tanker War In Persian Gulf And US-Iranian Conflict
    2. Trump Stopped Strike On Iran, But Tensions Continued To Grow
  2. English News and Articles
    1. Iran
    2. Exclusive: Western intelligence hacked 'Russia's Google' Yandex to spy on accounts - sources
    3. Cyprus flags new migratory route facilitated by Turkey
    4. French governmental report on radicalizazion of public staff
    5. Sea-Watch 3
    6. Young Greeks unwilling to return
  3. Translated News in English
    1. Defense Spending
    2. Murder case Lübcke
    3. CDU-HEAD - Kramp-Karrenbauer questions parliamentary approval on foreign missions
    4. Report - Domestic Intelligence Service (Bundesamts für Verfassungsschutz)
    5. Mercosur
    6. Request for Hammel jump - AfD wants to overturn Bundestag meeting and fails
    7. Illegal Million - Jobs Democracy threatens Leyens career
    8. 6.58 million people live on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV benefits (minimum welfare subsidy) & As far as the official number of unemployed is concerned: 3.15 million people without work
    9. The Non-Neutral Public Broadcaster in Germany
    10. Case of Walter Lübcke - suspect evidently revokes confession
    11. Netherlands : suspect confesses attack in Utrecht
    12. The Worst

I. English Videos

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Tanker War In Persian Gulf And US-Iranian Conflict

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Trump Stopped Strike On Iran, But Tensions Continued To Grow

II. English News and Articles

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Trump Threatens ‘Fire and Fury’ Against North Korea if It Endangers U.S. - Aug. 8, 2017
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump threatened on Tuesday to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it endangered the United States, as tensions with the isolated and impoverished nuclear-armed state escalated into perhaps the most serious foreign policy challenge yet of his administration.
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source: ny times
source: la times
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Dogs were barking ...

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Exclusive: Western intelligence hacked 'Russia's Google' Yandex to spy on accounts - sources
WASHINGTON/LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018 deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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Western cyberattacks against Russia are seldom acknowledged or spoken about in public. It could not be determined which of the five countries was behind the attack on Yandex, said sources in Russia and elsewhere, three of whom had direct knowledge of the hack. The breach took place between October and November 2018.
Yandex spokesman Ilya Grabovsky acknowledged the incident in a statement to Reuters, but declined to provide further details. “This particular attack was detected at a very early stage by the Yandex security team. It was fully neutralized before any damage was done,” he said.
The company also said that “the Yandex security team’s response ensured that no user data was compromised by the attack.”
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source: reuters
source: the moscow times
source: rfe/rl

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Cyprus flags new migratory route facilitated by Turkey
Cyprus is seeing a major increase in the number of migrants from third countries arriving from Turkey, with the tacit approval of Ankara, Cypriot interior minister, Constantinos Petrides, told a group of Brussels journalists on Thursday (27 June).
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In addition to an increase of migratory pressure on Cyprus in recent years (over 50% in 2017 compared to the previous year and a further 65% increase in 2018), the data for 2019 causes further concern, he said.
Cyprus received an average of more than 1.000 persons for each of the first three months of 2019, while arrivals through the Turkey-occupied area from January until May totalled more than 3.000, he said.
In comparison, in 2018 the number was 2,000, while in 2017 it was only 137.
A very small number of migrants arrived by boat, the vast majority crossing into the Republic of Cyprus through the occupied North.
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source: euractiv

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In conclusion of the work of an information mission on public services in the face of radicalization
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3. A more precise quantified assessment
As of May 29, 2019, 21,039 individuals are registered in the Terrorist Radicalization Prevention Processing File (FSPRT) of which 10,092 have the status: "taken into account", 10,616 the status: "closed", 167 status: "further evaluation", and finally 164 status: "on standby".
According to the data transmitted to the mission by UCLAT, 20,649 people were enrolled in the FSPRT as of December 23, 2018, an increase of 1,131 additional individuals enrolled in 2018. There has been a slowdown in the increase in the number of registered in this file, since 6 095 additional persons were registered in 2016 and 4 202 people in 2017.
In addition, at the same time, the number of active files has decreased, closed files having increased 85.8% since the beginning of the year 2018. At the beginning of the year 2019, 12,809 cards are said to be "active" " , That is to say being followed by the services ( 13 ) . According to UCLAT " The decline in the number of active files is essentially the quality control exercised by the services on their" portfolio "of radicalized people. The FSPRT has now reached a certain maturity, with the services better identifying the problem of violent radicalization than at the origin of the FSPRT. As a result of this action there is an increase in fences, for greater efficiency of the FSPRT. "
If, as we have seen, there is no "typical profile" of radicalized people, the FSPRT analysis reveals some trends:
- Radicalization is an essentially masculine phenomenon since men represent 78% of the individuals registered in the file. On the other hand, the share of radicalized women is far from being negligible and the site stop-djihadisme.fr recalls that of the nearly 700 French present on the Iraq-Syrian combat zone, nearly 300 are women;
- only 3% of registered individuals are minors (while minors represent more than 20% of the French population), so this is a phenomenon affecting mostly relatively young adults: less than 5% of individuals are aged more than 50 years old (whereas they represent about a third of the French population);
- nearly 30% of the registered people are people converted to Islam (this notion must however be handled with caution) and 80% are of French nationality;
- radicalization is a rather urban and peri-urban phenomenon concentrated in Île-de-France, in the Rhone corridor, the Mediterranean arc, in the northern and north-eastern agglomerations; however, a proselytizing leader only needs to see cases of radicalization in rural areas and virtually all departments are involved in one or more reports;
- it is a phenomenon related to delinquency since more than 1 800 convicts or defendants are registered with the FSPRT and, more widely, a large part of individuals reported to have a criminal record;
- it is a phenomenon marked by the prevalence of social difficulties in a broad sense: 3,708 individuals registered with the FSPRT are "without profession" and 3,250 ( 14 ) present difficulties in the family sphere (separation, divorced parents, family of reception, abusive family, death of a relative, placement in a home ...).
Since October 2017, twelve professional fields have been qualified as "sensitive" and are subject to specific monitoring in the FSPRT. According to the data transmitted by UCLAT on December 21, 2018, there are:
- 1 609 individuals practicing or having exercised one or more professions classified as "sensitive", in particular because of the nature of the activity carried out or the reception of the public ( 15 ) ;
- 1,702 mentions relating to sensitive professions (an individual may have exercised several professions qualified as such). The most frequently cited are land transport (642 mentions, or 37.72% of the mentions relating to sensitive occupations), air transport (298 mentions, or 17.51%) and private security activities (212 mentions, ie 12 mentions). , 46%).
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source: assemblee nationale fr translate
source: assemblee nationale fr
ref:
Islam en , Islam de

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Carola Rackete arrested, what now risks the captain of the Sea Watch 3
A patrol boat of the Finance tries to prevent her from entering the port, but she continues with the maneuvers until the docking. The accusation is resistance to a warship and attempted shipwreck. De Falco: "Sea Watch is an ambulance of the sea, the commander will be freed"
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Now she is under house arrest, in an unpublished place - on the island -, on charges of violence as a warship and attempted shipwreck for having rammed a patrol boat of the Yellow Flames. Within 48 hours the guarantee questioning will have to be carried out before the investigating judge of Agrigento in the presence of the defense lawyer. The investigating judge will then have another 48 hours for the validation of the provision. The commander could be tried for direct connection: the 31-year-old German, investigated since yesterday for facilitating illegal immigration and refusing obedience to a military ship, faces a sentence of 3 to 10 years only for violating article 1100 of the navigation code ( " resistance or violence against warship" ). For the "attempted shipwreck", provided for in articles 110 and 428 of the penal code, the maximum penalty is 12 years. About the administrative sanction - for which the seizure of the ship has already taken place in compliance with the Security-bis decree - the Sea Watch will have to pay a fine of 20 thousand euros which, in case it is not paid within the terms, can reach up to 50 thousand euros.
IMPACT WITH MOTOVEDETTA - The Finance patrol boat tried to prevent the Sea Watch from entering the port, between the dock and the pier. The Rackete did not give in, insisting with the maneuvers until it touched the accident: there would have been a contact between the ship and the patrol boat, with the boat of the Gdf that ended up against the quay, succeeding however to slip off without consequences for the 'crew. Then the docking, with the financiers coming on board, proceeding to the arrest of Carola Rackete .
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source: quotidiano translate
source: quotidiano
Tonight CRIMINAL behavior of the commander of the pirate ship that attempted to crush against the quay of the port of Lampedusa a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat, with the crew on board, putting the life of the agents at risk. DELINQUENTI!

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Young Greeks unwilling to return
Amid concerns about the negative economic and social repercussions of the brain drain, a new survey by Greece’s KPMG chapter has found that four in 10 of the Greeks who left the country during the crisis years have no intention of returning.
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source: ekathimerini
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... So again when employers' organizations talk about the need for migration or a shortage of skilled employers they mean something different. They want to avoid higher wages as well as the necessity and the associated costs of education, training and investments. However they are depriving the countries of origin of their resources in the form of skilled employers. And to lure trained workers from low-wage and developing countries should not be represented by leftists. ... , ... Wenn Arbeitgeberverbände also wieder von der Notwendigkeit von Migration oder einem Fachkräftemangel sprechen, dann meinen sie etwas anderes. Sie wollen höhere Löhne sowie die Notwendigkeit und die damit verbundenen Kosten der Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie Investitionen vermeiden. Damit berauben sie die Herkunftsländer jedoch ihrer Ressourcen in Form von ausgebildeten Arbeitnehmern. Und ausgebildete Arbeitnehmer aus Niedriglohn- und Entwicklungsländern abzuwerben sollte nicht von Linken vertreten werden. ...

III. Translated News in English

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Higher defense spending - US defense companies benefit from arms purchases in Europe
Higher defense expenditures in European countries and concerns about an escalation in the Iran conflict benefit US defense companies. According to their managers, Europe is the fastest growing market in the world.
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Industry representatives referred to the 2014 NATO member agreement to bring defense spending up to a level of two percent of economic output. Many European countries have also raised their military spending in 2014, following the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
Alliance - NATO Partners Increase Defense Spending
After continued US pressure, NATO partners are expected to spend more on defense this year. The numbers are not quite in line with the ideas of US President Trump.
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A large part of the increased expenditure this year is contributed by Germany. The Federal Government had last reported to NATO the largest increase in defense spending in decades. It therefore expects expenditure relevant to the Alliance of 47.32 billion euros in 2019. This represents an increase of more than five billion euros compared to 2018 (plus 12.9 percent) and, according to NATO figures, a share of the gross domestic product in the amount of 1.36 percent. There has not been such an increase, at least since the end of the Cold War.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
ref:
... However this is sold to the public as taking on responsibility or even as an increase of sovereignty. It is then pretende as if one can no longer rely on the US government. To pretend as if one acts against the US government while following its orders is clever because it undermines established patterns of thinking. But in fact the development is larger. As early as 2012 then-President Barack Obama announced a pivot to Asia and thus sent the message to the NATO member states in Europe that in the future they have to count on fewer resources from the USA. However in 2014 NATO also stated in Wales that the unification of Crimea with Russia requires a strong stance from NATO. [10] [11] [12] [13] ...

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Murder case Lübcke - suspect Stephan E. has confessed
Stephan E. confessed to having shot Kassel's regional president Lübcke. Reason was his outrage over Lübck's remarks on refugee policy.
The suspect Stephan E. confessed to having shot the Kassel district president Walter Lübcke. According to information from NDR, WDR and "SZ" he said, acted alone and had no co-investigators. Reason for the act was his outrage over Lübck's remarks in 2015 on refugee policy. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer confirmed that Stephan E. stated that he acted as a single offender. However, the explanation of the "political murder" is not yet complete.
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Constitution protection: Stephan E. no Informant
The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, should have explained to the deputies, the intelligence of the intelligence service to Stephan E. back several years. After that, the alleged murderer was no longer noticeable. At the moment, they are intensively examining whether there are any new indications from the past years.
Haldenwang also told the Interior Committee that there had been no cooperation of his authority with Stephan E., the assassin was therefore not a V-man. His name appears in files, but a separate personal file to Stephan E. in the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution does not exist.
source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
source: dw
source: spiegel
source: focus
Murder case Lübcke - Two more arrests in the murder case Lübcke - weapons supplier and mediator caught
In the Lübcke murder case, police have arrested two other suspects, according to SPIEGEL information. A weapons cache has also been discovered.
The investigators in the murder case Lübcke succeeded in another search success. At the advice of Gestrons Stephan Ernst, the police took SPIEGEL information two other people. An arms dealer from North Rhine-Westphalia and the intermediary of the business between Ernst and the dealer were arrested. The intermediary comes from the Kassel region.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: zeit

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CDU-HEAD - Kramp-Karrenbauer approaches Macron
AKK has argued in Paris for a stronger European defense. But first, Germany is facing an internal political debate.
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Also in matters of European defense AKK went beyond the well-grounded standard statements. She suggested that the German parliamentary approval on foreign missions be made more European compatible. There is a dispute with the US, so a stronger European defense is necessary.
Even today, German cooperates with Dutch and French units. "If we push this further, Germany is also facing an internal political debate, because today the Bundestag always decides on every action - the question is which decision-making path can be taken in common European operations."
In an interview with the Handelsblatt and the ARD, AKK later explained their domestic policy potentially conflicting statement, but did not want to be quoted verbatim. It is clear that while it does not want to lift the parliamentary approval on foreign missions, it does want to accommodate the European partners.
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source: handelsblatt translate
source: handelsblatt ref:
... On the other hand the militaristic agreements in the treaty are more extensive. According to the treaty both countries want to develop a common foreign and military policy and with a view to joint military operations a common strategic culture. This reappears the concept of a core EU and rapidly developing zones in the EU. Here however the German government would make concessions to the French government as the former relied so far on a common militarization of the EU. Basically the foreign and military policy approaches of the Treaty only confirm the previous militarization of the EU in the form of joint arms projects and the intensification of military cooperation such as military cooperation the so-called Permanent Structured Cooperation PESCO. ...

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Report - Domestic Intelligence Service (Bundesamts für Verfassungsschutz)
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Right-wing potential
After deducting multiple memberships
2017: 24.000
2018: 24.100
Thereof, violence-oriented right-wing extremists
2017: 12.700
2018: 12.700
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source: Verfassungsschutzbericht pdf,p.50 ...
Left-wing potential
After deducting multiple memberships
2016: 28.500
2017: 29.500
2018: 32.000
violence-oriented left-wing extremists
2016: 8.500
2017: 9.000
2018: 9.000
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source: Verfassungsschutzbericht pdf,p.110 ...
Person potential Islamism / Islamist terrorism
Salafist aspirations
2016: 9.700
2017: 10.800
2018: 11.300
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source: Verfassungsschutzbericht pdf,p.178 ...
Personnel potential of extremist organizations of foreigners (without Islamism)
Sum
2016: 30.050
2017: 30.550
2018: 30.350
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source: Verfassungsschutzbericht pdf,p.235 ...
source: Verfassungsschutzbericht Kurzzusammenfassung pdf
source: verfassungsschutz
ref:
Domestic Intelligence Service Report - Number of right-wing extremists at its highest level , Domestic Intelligence Service Report: number of right-wing extremists reaches high , Domestic Intelligence Service Report - Number of right-wing extremists in Germany is increasing , Manufacturing Consent

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EU sets up world's largest free trade zone with Mercosur Federation of States
Together with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, the EU wants to build the largest free trade area in the world. After years of negotiations, a political agreement had been reached.
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However, there is also criticism of the free trade agreement. Many European farmers fear that they will not be able to cope with competition from the major agricultural powers of South America. Unlike other industries, the agricultural sector in the region is considered highly competitive. On the one hand, Mercosur produces on a much larger scale, which brings cost advantages. In addition, the farmers in the region are very generous with pesticides and genetic engineering, which many consumers in Europe see critically.
Consumer advocates criticized that the agreement could lower the high standards in Europe in order to facilitate market access for exporters from the Mercosur countries.
Environmentalists fear that the new outlets for meat and soybean exports from Brazil could lead to a widening of the pastures and crops, further reducing the Amazon rainforest. Brazil's President Bolsonaro is considered a friend of the agricultural industry, environmental protection, however, is not one of his priorities. This could have global repercussions, since the rainforest as CO2 storage is of great importance in the global fight against global warming.
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source: die presse translate
source: die presse
source: faz
source: handelsblatt

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Request for Hammel jump - AfD wants to overturn Bundestag meeting and fails
It was a long night in the Bundestag - and she has an aftermath. The AFD considered the plenary no quorum in the night of Friday, Parliament Vice President Roth saw it differently. Now the Bureau has decided.
The AFD faction has failed with the attempt to determine the quota of the Bundestag in the night of Friday. Her subsequent action against Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth was unsuccessful. Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble now said: "The Bureau of the Bundestag is unanimous that the Board has correctly applied the rules of the Rules of Procedure on the determination of quorum."
The following events had preceded: The AfD had applied for a so-called Hammelsprung at about 1.30 clock in the night. At a Hammelsprung the deputies leave the hall and then come back through different doors. So their exact number can be determined. Strictly speaking, the Bundestag is only quorate if more than half of the 709 members of parliament are present - which is almost never the case at night. However, as long as the chairman of the board agrees that there is a quorum, no mutton jumping can take place. The board of directors included in the night next to Roth and the two secretaries Benjamin Strasser of the FDP and Josef Oster of the CDU.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
source: welt
note:
But according to the rules of procedure the Bundestag needs more than half of its members in the meeting room to be eligable to pass laws. Thus the Bundestag was not eligable to pass laws according to these rules. [A]

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Illegal Million - Jobs Democracy threatens Leyens career
The parliamentary investigation of the consultant affair brings out monstrous facts that are capable of confirming all sorts of prejudices about "system" and "establishment." But it is "the system" that makes the processing possible in the first place.
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The ministry-internal investigation seems - with permission - as a joke. Andreas Conradi, chief of the department's legal department, purportedly refrained from asking former Secretary of State Katrin Suder about her private relationship with Accenture manager Timo Noetzel, whose company benefited from unlawful procurement. Conradi explains why: "Ms. Suder has plausibly demonstrated that she was not involved in Accenture's selection decision." That may even be true, because whether Suder was really fidgety or just highly motivated and could not stand how slow the mills in that Grinding the ministry is not (yet) known, but to have not even asked them is ridiculous, downright absurd.
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source: n-tv translate
source: n-tv

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6.58 million people live on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV benefits (minimum welfare subsidy)
There were nearly 2.23 million unemployed in April 2019. But with over 6.58 million, almost three times as many people in Germany were living on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV benefits, including almost two million children and adolescents. Because only a part of those who need state support, is also considered unemployed in the sense of statistics.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt
As far as the official number of unemployed is concerned: 3.15 million people without work
In June, the Federal Employment Agency reports just under 2.22 million unemployed. However, the total number of people without work does not reflect the official figure. Because around 933,000 de facto unemployed are not included in the unemployment, but in the separate underemployment statistics.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt
ref:
[Economics] Is the German Economy great

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In particular, the editorial teams of the talk show endeavor not to offer AfD representatives a forum for their own purposes. Depending on the topic, however, it is necessary from case to case to allow AFD politicians to speak for themselves.
Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk ist außerdem zur Ausgewogenheit verpflichtet. Dazu gehören das Gebot einer fairen und unabhängigen Berichterstattung und die Verpflichtung zur Überparteilichkeit. Die Abbildung verschiedener Meinungen im Programm soll insgesamt ausgewogen sein. Diese Vorgaben gelten in besonderem Maße für Nachrichten oder politische Sendungen. [A]

Public service broadcasting is also committed to balance. These include the requirement of fair and independent reporting and the obligation to impartiality. The image of different opinions in the program should be balanced overall. These requirements are particularly applicable to news or political broadcasts.

ref:
[Dossier] ARD Framing Manual

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Case of Walter Lübcke - suspect evidently revokes confession
First he admitted to having killed the Kassel district president Walter Lübcke. Now, according to media reports, Stephan Ernst has revoked his confession.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: sz
source: tagesspiegel

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Netherlands : suspect confesses attack in Utrecht
The attack in a tram of Utrecht with four dead was probably committed for Islamist motives. The defendant has stood trial in court.
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In court, the man first invoked his right to silence. But when asked about his motives, he said that the Prophet was being ridiculed. "Dutch soldiers kill Muslims abroad, you are inferior." He stated that he rejected the court. "I am not a democrat, I do not recognize your laws and your courts are not."
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source: zeit translate
source: zeit
source: orf

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White. Wealthy. Educated. Straight. That means in Germany to be privileged. To reduce discrimination, those affected would have to become aware of it and give more space to others, researchers say.

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