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"Live from npr news. I'm lakshmi singh. The haitian governments issued arrest warrants for three high profile fugitives in connection with president. Jovan noises assassination a week ago in port-au-prince prince npr's jason bobi reports. Police say the fugitives should be considered armed and dangerous. The new suspects include a former senator former official from the country's anticorruption unit. And a haitian businessman who face charges of drug smuggling in the us. The men are charged with murder attempted murder and armed robbery. The warrants don't specifically mention the killing of president moe's but security officials say. The men are wanted as part of the sweeping investigation into the assassination currently eighteen alleged colombian mercenaries are in custody in connection with the attack as well as to haitian americans and haitian doctor who also lived in florida. Authorities say the doctor hired the other detainees but was shot a dozen times inside his private residence on july seventh. His wife was seriously injured in the shooting. Jason bobi an npr news. Puerto prints with unrest in both haiti and cuba. The us is urging would be migrants not to attempt the dangerous sea crossings. Npr's josh snyder has more on homeland. Security secretary alejandro majorca says latest warning. Secretary my orca says there has not been a surge in efforts to migrate to the us by sea but i for widespread protests that broke out sunday and cuba and the assassination of haiti's president. He warns potential migrants. That it's not worth taking the risk but waters straits of florida and the caribbean are dangerous. Especially now as we have injured hurricane season my orcas expressed solidarity with the people of cuba. His family fled the cuban revolution in the nineteen sixties. But he said any migrants intercepted at sea will be returned to their home. Countries and that the coast guard is monitoring the florida straits in light of the protests in cuba of food medicine shortages power outages rising prices and the pandemic trial snyder. Npr news president. Biden's meeting a group of senate democrats later this hour for lunch to build enthusiasm for proposed budget senate. Democrats reached an agreement among themselves on what that budget should look like as npr's susan davis reports. Their plan is worth about three and a half trillion dollars. It's far less than progressives like vermont. Senator bernie sanders wanted. They were hoping to get closer to six trillion. But it's probably the maximum of what they could agree to and keep moderate democrats on board one of those moderates. Virginia senator mark warner who also sits on the budget. Committee says it will be fully paid for. We obviously don't know the exact details of how democrats plan to play for it but they have been saying for months that they plan to rollback portion of the trump tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy to pay for it. npr. Susan davis reporting. The proposal includes spending over ten years on biden's priorities such as climate change and social programs. You're listening to npr. News residents across central and western europe may be spending the day assessing the level of damage inflicted by floods from heavy storms. overnight. Espy nicholson reports from berlin. More potentially damaging. Weather's on the way. A man in the eastern german state of saxony was swept away by rising waters as he tried to secure his property. In the western. German city of haagen fire services rescued drivers stuck in their vehicles and clearing the debris from landslides this morning residents in the region have been advised not to use their shells or washes after rain flooded. The sewage works germany's weather. Authorities warn the storms moving north today possibly affecting the city of hamburg severe storms are also drenching the netherlands and belgium with authorities in the dutch province of limburg warning residents to stay away from streams and rivers and in switzerland. A flood warning on lake. Lucerne has prompted officials to ban shipping for npr news. I'm s nicholson in berlin. The life of the late astronaut. And senator john. Glenn is being celebrated with a three day festival this weekend. In ohio organizers england's hometown of cambridge. And where he grew up nearby. New concord have teamed up to sponsor the big event friday through sunday to mark. What would have been glen's one hundredth birthday. You passed away nearly five years ago. The upcoming celebration reportedly will include a friendship. Seven miler race between the two towns. The events are named for the aircraft glen road when he became the first american to orbit the earth in nineteen sixty two at last check on wall street. The dow jones industrial average is up nine points since the opening thirty. Four thousand eight ninety eight the snp up two points and the nasdaq is down eight. You're listening to npr news..
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"This message comes from NPR sponsored jet dot com with two day delivery and no membership fees jet offers a tailored shopping experience that fits seamlessly into your daily life. Get started today by visiting jet dot com or downloading the jet app. Now we have a head-spinning story from Germany. Now it's the story of a far right political party called alternative for Germany. The FD this far right party has done well elections while claiming the Germany's identity is under threat from refugees and migrants. Now the FDA is setting up a wing of Jewish members. In theory, Israel is aligned against the same Arabs and Muslims. The AFDC dislikes. The head-spinning part is that people on the far right have also targeted Jews Espy Nicholson reports from Berlin, less this. Okay. This incident was caught on camera and shows German man, shouting abuse at the owner of fine, begs a well-known Jewish restaurant in the Berlin, borough of Charlottenburg. Come on. I. Plitin costs come on the man rants. What do you want hit? You belong in the gas chambers. Nobody wants you here with your stupid Jewish restaurants. Mike del Boga restaurant, regular and friend of the owner says, anti Jewish sentiment is more brazen since the AFDC strong showing in last election. So the very idea that fellow Jewish citizens would vote for the party is baffling. A lot of members of the party are antisemitic are races and saying, unbelievable things about minorities about Jewish people about Muslim people. How can a Jewish group form itself with an apartment like that? Delbra is vice president of the German Jewish students union which is organizing a protest against the group Jews in the af d, their inauguration on Sunday. He wants that the f. d. is trying to exploited his Jewish members, the dries to come over very pro Jewish, very pro e. it's not because they're like the Jews. It's not because they like Israel very much because they hate the enemies of Israel so much that they think that have strong partner with in the Jewish community to fight those people. But we don't let exploit. Ourselves from this tactics we'll can fool is also Jewish, but he's a founding member of the group Jews in the af deep. He scoffs at the idea of being used by his party each instrumentalist, believe me. I'm not being exploited by anybody. I'm a conservative person and I'd like to continue to live in Germany. We're roughly one hundred and forty thousand Jews in this country. It would only take a week for us all to leave, and we'd be leaving not because of the f. d. or the right wing extremists. But because of Islam, ick anti-semitism. Many Ammon reporters for the news magazine dash is an authority on the AFC. She says, she sees a lot of parallels between the anti semitism of the Nazi era and the AFDC anti Islam sentiment today for a lot of de leaders, you hear derogatory, aggressive, general accumulations towards the Muslims that can be comparable to the way the Nazis treated. The Jews, for example, see them as enemies of the German. People. They also use language comparing Muslims to animals. Like for example, Acura. Back at find bugs restaurant. Mike del book warns that Jews should be suspicious. The AFDC stunts on alleged Islamic antisemitism. Maybe they're standing by our side right now. But when they, let's say, solve the first problem, we are the next and we just have to look back in our history to understand what we are doing when we are supporting a party like that for NPR news, I'm as Mickelson in Berlin. Support for this podcast and the following message come from internet essentials from Comcast, connecting more than six million low income people to low cost, high speed internet at home. So students are ready for homework class graduation and more now
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"Some high altitude wind shear hurricane Florence is. Now sustaining maximum winds of ninety miles an hour as continues on a course toward the Carolinas. South Carolina, governor hen. Mcmaster, urging residents to prepare for flash flooding and possible wind damage Puerto happens. We will have a lot of rain