[000:00:00;00] my . this is g.w. news live from berlin chaos and destruction in europe the worst storm in a decade batters britain the netherlands and germany the train service grinds to a halt stranding many overnight here in cologne we'll get the latest on the chaos also coming up controversy over the killing of a rival police officer leaves venezuela's opposition to pull out of talks with the government this as the country spirals into a deep crisis with widespread protests and looting. donald trump approaches

a year in the white house and what's the verdict well it depends on who you ask we speak to a u.s. congressman who compares the start of the trump presidency to the early years of nazi germany. also coming up defiant for democracy hong kong's pro-democracy protesters they say jail terms for civil disobedience we'll talk to a leading activist nathan law about the movement battle in the courts. and love that is in the air as pope francis carries out the first in-flight papal wedding we'll bring you the full story of the airborne i do. i'm sumi so misconduct thank you for joining us meteorologists say it was the worst storm to hit germany in a decade fredricka killed at least nine people and caused transport delays for thousands of commuters across europe fear scales blowing in from the west head

mainland europe and the netherlands. and belgium before sweeping into germany and disrupting travel at train stations and on the roads the country's main rail company has halted all long distance train services with top winds speeds of over two hundred kilometers per hour recorded. the winds were just too strong for these buildings in the netherlands. top heavy lorries stood little chance either. and there were tragic consequences for ling trees killed several people. in scotland drivers were advised to stay off the roads. plains to were affected buffeted by fierce gusts at amsterdam ship while at port authorities that later granted all flights. that were similar scenes at train stations across the netherlands and germany.

thousands of passengers were stranded as rail traffic was suspended. it took some by surprise. christmas of so i was on my way to university i had a deadline for handing in some work fifteen minutes ago but if you move my professor and i think she'll forgive me for. an understanding of my local train station when i saw a huge branch falling off a tree so i knew or didn't look good and i have listed just as it was i'm not blow dried my hair that was a waste of time. a long wait for many but on the dutch coast these hardy souls are in place the wild weather. elsewhere less fun more frustration. and the hard work is only just beginning for those involved in the cleanup it's set to be

a mammoth task. well as we just heard here in germany all long distance train services were canceled and that meant an unexpected night away from home for many travelers berlin central station the help on horse late on sleeper trains with a difference they weren't going anywhere instead they doubled up as temporary hotels for passengers stranded in the capital. let's bring in charlotte shell some pill she is at berlin central station with the latest hi charlotte what's the situation like there this morning. it is a very uncertain way to see me for the hundreds of travelers who gathered here on this very chilly morning to find out whether or not they're going to be able to get out if the city we're estimating that some two hundred people is standing in a queue haith information to try and find out exactly whether or not they'll be able to get on a train this morning the hugo's almost halts the length of the station i'm being

told that people who are at the front of the queue have waited for over an hour now some of them are lucky will be lucky some of them will be able to get on trains their os and some trains that are running to hamburg for example others they will be turned away i've spoken to some people who say that they tried to get a train last night they were forced to spend the night at a hotel they had to say they say they had to pay for it themselves they're not clear whether or not at this point they're going to be able to get a refund others say that they showed up this morning just hoping that they'd be able to board a train they don't know just how long they'll be here it could potentially be well into the day and some people actually did have to stay at the station last night however they've been coping. that's right yes some were put on to sleep a train that was a platform not far from where i'm standing right now where a carriage with. a standstill and people spend the night on that i spoke to one man who said that he was given money towards

a hotel everybody who came here last night was given a two year he's had to spend either on a on a taxi or a hotel but this man i spoke to said that that money didn't go anywhere near far enough to finding a hotel room that is still free in this city so he was forced to spend the night on the sleep train of course it's not very comfortable and that the no amount of free coffee that is to being handed out which would make it any easier for those travelers there are bad so you just have to sit head leaning up against the window hoping to get a good night's sleep and try and boards the early morning trains today for many they will still have to wait in this very long queue off so it was a very rough night last night i can imagine but the worst of the storm is over so does that mean that long distance rail services are getting back to normal that's right last night on the information board behind me it was only showing regional

trains moving around by that no long distance trains running it so that is starting to change we are seeing some trains out of the city now albeit a lot of them with delays we're hearing as well the trains in the south to germany are starting to run so there is some hope for people but i have say it's very some wait for the two hundred zero people waiting here at the train station. because charlotte show some poll reporting for us out of her lens at central station thank you charlotte. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world a california couple who held their thirteen malnourished children captive for years in their home have pleaded not guilty to charges of torture and child abuse prosecutors say the children were shackled even to go to the bathroom the pair face life in prison if convicted of all charges new zealand's prime minister just send art and has announced that she's expecting her first child and will take six weeks of maternity leave when the baby is born comments on

a woman's right to privacy concerning baby plans went viral last year after she was elected leader of new zealand's labor party. authorities in cape town have imposed new water restrictions on households to combat an ongoing drought for of february residents must use no more than fifty liters a day a reduction of almost half the south african city has had three years of low rainfall. tensions are on the rise in venezuela with opposition parties calling off talks with the government opposition and government officials were due to meet in the dominican republic but opposition leaders pulled out over government accusations that they were involved in the death of a rogue ex police officer the two sides have been better off ever since a worsening economic crisis has led to short shortages in food and medicine. desperate from hunger one so wealthy latin american country venezuela has been gripped by looting from the capital caracas the situation is dire thank god i still

have food to eat that many don't include in children there's hunger on criminality supermarket shelves are empty police are increasingly overwhelmed and a sense of chaos is taking hold shop owners are providing their own security. there's no doubt they're arming themselves. baseball bats and metal pipes. even fruit stands aren't safe from the looting a leading member of the opposition says life has become a simple fight for survival. everything is either too expensive or not available at all this is a spontaneous protest but there's nothing political about it it's just people who have nothing to eat. spontaneous but not yet the kind of massive demonstrations organized last year so the number of protesters is growing. i don't see any solution with this government anymore only international intervention will keep us from

a situation even worse thing cuba's. meanwhile an exodus is under way in the last few months venezuelans have left their homes by the hundreds of thousands. you're watching did you do you still to come we'll take a look at what donald trump's put in place that way with and change his first event full and to multiple us year as u.s. president. but first a trade war brewing between china and the us monica exactly sumi and of course i mean it's been sort of in the making for quite some time now we hear that some chinese steel and polyester products will face punitive tariffs as high as one hundred and seventy four percent when imported to the united states washington says chinese government subsidies give these products an unfair edge making it hard for american producers to compete only a small range of chinese products are affected but experts say the trade dispute between the u.s.

and china could also affect other countries. all right let's talk about here in germany where siemens workers in the eastern german town of gurlitz close to the polish border are staging a strike today to protest looming plant closures by engineering companies siemens and g.e. what's happened well despite profits of more than six billion euros seaman see old joke is pulling out of all business units with an uncertain future let's take a look when kids are took over as c.e.o. and twenty thirty in the company shifted its focus to three main sectors forecast to become growth areas electrification automation and digitalisation the corporation's wind power division was then spawn off again maser that's the name is now an independent publicly traded company and a similar fate is planned for siemens medical engineering division this year its

rail division will also be offered on the stock market after it merges with french rival storm similarily siemens gas turbine division as well as its process industries and to drive sector are likely to be spun off and that is costing thousands of jobs in gurlitz but siemens is not the only game in town for one thing the picturesque old city is being used for big budget movie productions films like quentin tarantino's inglorious basterds around the world in eighty days with jackie chan and the grand budapest hotel were all shot there and it's the site of a fast growing mid-sized businesses which may help fill the breach. it might come as a surprise to find this company in gurlitz city and make software for the world market with annual sales of sixty million euros its offices are in the historic heart of the town in the far east of saxony and it has no shortage of young talent at the quality and as

a we've only recruit from the saxony region at the moment we're banking on software made in germany not in romania not in the czech republic not in lithuania our software is made in germany made in germany founded in one nine hundred ninety city and employs around one hundred people in gurlitz. we are planning to grow continuously we have a double digit growth and we can only grow through collaboration with expertise and know how to use it well and we want to recruit more staff here me toward over here what a given maybe from here zeman has announced it's shutting a steam turbine plant with nine hundred employees in gurlitz and that's not all rail vehicle maker bombards he is planning to slash a thousand jobs here. what will the future bring for the region if two of its biggest employers pull out. investors are interested say local economic developers

although they don't give any concrete details. nominee then one we won't name names until it's a done deal but i can tell you they come mainly from the emo billet the sector the logistic sector in the medical sector that's it in a nutshell. chis there are lots district just the district in the state of saxony with the highest percentage of foreigners we have around two hundred fifty five thousand residents with twelve thousand foreigners in total and that's the highest court in saxony so we're bit of a trailblazer and saxony in terms of being cosmopolitan. but investors mainly want is qualified workers that also goes for the swiss firms gun which produces technology for pharmaceutical companies and which has been in gurlitz for several years it's gone intends to expand here perhaps with former simmons and juniors years removed before bodies are the preparations for our new

production holes and as we expand we will be creating new jobs. skun is a medium sized enterprise with one hundred employees here so it won't be hiring massively but many of the highly skilled workers laid off by siemens may be able to find positions in the small companies scattered in and around gurlitz. well there's always hope isn't there the fate of the world's largest passenger jet the airbus a three eighty appear to be sealed at the beginning of this week with no new orders coming in the european plane maker was preparing to end production but that's all changed now the middle east's largest carrier emirates is throwing at us a lifeline buying twenty double decker jets with the option to buy sixteen more. the air bus a three eighty lives to see another day emirates ordered thirty six of the super jumbos for a total of sixteen billion dollars on twitter emirates c.e.o. shake bin saeed al maktoum called the a three eighty a success story and

a critical part of future success for his company and the united arab emirates the latest deal shows how confidently we're approaching the future and how determined we are to forge ahead dubai wants to keep growing and become a world class destination and aviation hub. airbus has manufactured and sold more than three hundred of the giant jets over the last ten years emirates has accounted for almost half of those orders but production lines have been silent recently high fuel and maintenance costs have deterred potential clients leaving air bus without a single order for over two years and into production appeared eminent. the latest order puts new wind under the a three eighty s. wings airbus now hopes that other airlines will follow him or its lead. assuming no day it seems with news from washington today is no exception the stop it seems to sort of not happen but is that get

a clear well that's the question monica because the u.s. government is still facing a shutdown despite the house of representatives voting to keep it open past a friday deadline now a bill was passed to continue funding the government and avoid a suspension of non essential federal services but the short term fix faces uncertainty in the senate democrats are vowed to kill the measure at the risk of being blamed for the threatened shutdown they want republican concessions on domestic spending and protecting a legal immigrants brought to the country as children known as dreamers are from being deported. well tomorrow marks the first anniversary of donald trump's first term as president of the united states some said he wouldn't last until christmas but with the economy booming and his health reportedly good trump is holding steady his unpredictable nature has had his supporters cheering and opponents cringing a look back now at trump's first year in office. it was an audacious first week in

office but gratian had been a central tenet of candidate trump's campaign within days of his inauguration president trump issued the first report became known as muslim bands his supporters welcomed the move but thousands of people turned out at airports across the country to protest the executive order legal challenges against the travel ban came almost immediately even after trump signed a second and then a third ban later in the year courts prevented them from going fully into effect the supreme court will ultimately decide their fate this year. shortly after the election the number of illegal crossings at the u.s. mexican border hit an all time low according to u.s. border officials throughout the year the government stepped up raids and arrests of suspected undocumented persons in the u.s. . the wall on the u.s. mexican border that trump promised is now part of some key immigration negotiations

in washington. one clear triumph for trump was the ascension of neil course to the supreme court for many conservatives this was an affirmation of why they voted for trump course it is an arch conservative jurist at just forty nine years old and with a lifetime appointment he is likely to shape a good portion of american law moving forward. only legislative success so far has been his tax bill with an estimated one point five trillion dollars in tax cuts it advances several conservative republican objectives like slashing corporate taxes and in particular lowering the rate for the richest americans he signed the bill into law even though the american public largely disapproved. the president also fulfilled a key campaign promise when he announced he'd withdraw the u.s. from the paris climate agreement over the objections of many of his advisors the u.s. is now the only country in the world that. the accord. building on strategies the

obama administration put in place trump ups the numbers of u.s. troops in iraq and syria ultimately helping to defeat the so-called islamic state the prime minister of iraq declared victory over i asked last month. and the u.s. economy has remained strong under trump u.s. stock markets have reached record highs and unemployment is at a seventeen year low although the president's behavior has been a daily flashpoint and many people still feel left behind in the economy mainstream conservatives have a lot to be happy about. well many on the american left have a laundry list of complaints against donald trump there were loud calls to impeach him before he was even sworn into office accusations of misconduct by trump's critics haven't turned into charges but that hasn't stopped his opponents did it is alex on for nominee spoke to democratic congressman steve cohen from tennessee who

made an official case for impeachment last year. congressman cohen you have interviews to five mph man against president still not strong and you are calling upon congress to start impeachment hearings why now well i think there's been times before when they could have been brought i mean from almost the beginning of his administration he's done things that have been difficult to bear for people that are used to american presidents who is exhibit grace and aplomb and intelligence and awareness but he's committed acts concerning his business practices his businesses the money he's made which are in violation of our constitution called emoluments clause and then he came up with the firing of james call me which i thought was a very low point in american history and think that was a distraction of justice so these things have occurred and i've held back and held back and held back and that finally what happened at charlottesville. really was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back what happened charlottesville

virginia where neo nazis and ku klux klansmen paraded with impunity as they should i guess in a free country but they marched and. wave nazi flags and talked about the jews will now take our jobs to our places and seeing what happened charles for him out of the kristallnacht and being jewish i said i cannot sit back and let this happen in my country all in pots and democratic party leaders as say that they don't think that the peaceful and is a someplace they should go to so you don't have the backing in your own party to start impeachment hearings no i don't but that doesn't stop me from wanting to do and doing what i think is right. i support leader pelosi and i'm a proud member than her party but i think we've been too timid too many times i think the people that are the hard core trump people. they're acting like impeachment some of seventy responses about

a civil war and you're not going to like what's going to come and you're going to be the enemy and we've got guns and bob law. those are the people the democrats are ever going to get politically i think that the leadership is think and politically and i understand politically because the political world of want to get a majority in congress in twenty eighteen but i think you still have to speak out on the truth and i think are based appreciates the truth i'm doing this because i felt compelled to do it was charlottesville and i've lived through richard nixon and i know what it's like to have a corrupt criminal corrupt per se with criminal as president i think we've got that situation now but the republicans have control of both houses in congress so you know i think that the actually going to have a chance of the likelihood of a passing is this slim and none and slim is the long shot but at the same time

if the democrats who believe that he's committed impeachable offenses in red districts that support them in that. don't come forward and bring the subject up and start the debate how do you expect the republicans whose districts right now are supportive of tropic instead pietschmann to ever have the guts to come forth and go listen the country and our democracy are at risk to this. individual and that so you have to start somewhere so i did it thank you very much here very well . now pope francis has made history by carrying out the first papal airborne wedding francis is on a visit in south america the marriage took place on board his plane on routes to an event in the ceremony was spur of the moment with the pontiff joining the happy couple on wing and a prayer. santiago airport early on thursday pope francis departed chile's capital on

a short flight to the northern city of. little did the pontiff know he'd soon be making history. at the center of the toll two flight attendants kahlo q father. and paolo pedestrian leith. in passing they mention to from says that they were a couple married in a civil ceremony. but then suddenly he asked us if we'd had a church wedding too i said we couldn't get the date we were supposed to get married there was an earthquake. because it was february twenty seventh twenty ten you play like this and he asked do you want me to marry you. but he asked are you sure are you sure you want me to marry you yes of course absolutely. the brief impromptu ceremony was captured in a few photos the happy couple who are clearly on cloud nine. it's such a tremendous emotion we're very very happy. never before has

a pope married someone on a plane and. the couple already has two daughters and this is truly a story for them to tell like grandchildren perhaps the closest you can get to a marriage made in heaven. to sports now and the bundle goes match day nineteen kicks off tonight when heritage berlin entertain dortmund the build up has been dominated by the future of dortmund star striker pierre emerick obama young he misses out again with a transfer possibly on the horizon but coach peter is trying to concentrate on the positives. picture show guy has one thing on his mind maintaining dortmund's unbeaten streak and essential task is to stay in the race for this season's been this league title. since he took over at the helm back in december the black and yellows have bounced back after several months in freefall. so it's

no surprise she is feeling up exact head of their away clash to hat. which can expose it if i think it's all positive so if there's a good mood in the team is this they're having fun doing their work and feeling really motivated by that i would tell them that some of these days to turn on his her star guy had a lot of thinking to do when putting together his starting eleven. striker pierre emerick obama young has been left out of the squad i made rumors he'll soon move to premier league club arsenal there was some good news with nineteen year old sensation christian six set to make a return from injury. is ready to play again he took part in the last two training sessions and we're going to see how he is so he's a possibility for the game. in america to see shows no

i just trash awaits dortmund berlin unbeaten in their last three home games against the visitors. you're watching news still to come standing defiant as jail time looms we ask one of hong kong's leading pro-democracy activists what he hopes to gain to civil disobedience. that story and much more coming up in the next thirty minutes. takes it personally with the wonderful people and stories that make it so special. my.

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talks with the chancellor's conservative s.p.d. leader martin chills on the party executive have already agreed now the rank and file needs to endorse the decision but members are split on whether it's a good move the f.e.d.'s youth wing says the party should reject another grand coalition nicknamed in german and rebuild itself in the opposition. we have seen your cross with us here in studio she's a political analyst at berlin humboldt university good morning thank you for joining us and how crucial is this vote on sunday very crucial indeed i mean this is sort of the vote that needs to be approved in order for the real coalition talks to start do you think martin has a majority at this point it's a bit tricky so we have already seen some regional associations are against forming a new grand coalition but i think in the end he should come out with a majority of yes votes i guess looking at this from the outside people would say

you know these are two sizes centuries spent the last four years in government together so what does the s.p.d. really have to lose in going into another coalition with chancellor merkel conservatives i mean so in the short term obviously it's a credibility loss because right of the deal actions they said they want to go in opposition and again after the talks failed they again said they do not want to form a grand coalition with the conservatives and in the long run i mean they always lost votes after they formed a grand coalition with the court serve a diffs so this might be sort of the long term losses from forming a coalition where the last four years so bad they weren't really but the s.p.d. and i mean the s.p.d. was also able to. transport some of their preferences into actual policy but it was still always recognised as a win for angle a miracle instead of the social democrats so it looks like it's going to be

a close call on sunday if martin shows doesn't get the majority that he's seeking could that be the end of chancellor merkel's leadership because that's what a lot of people are speculating yes but i still don't see any real appropriate successor of michael in the c.d.u. at the time right so even if there will be new elections. it will be very interesting to see if they actually go in in these elections with merkel or if they find someone else to do it i think might be the successor in a couple years but not right now really the other option on the table is that chancellor merkel could form a minority government explain to us that option yeah i mean minority governments actually work they do so in most of the scandinavian countries but the problem here in germany i think is that we don't have any experience with that and minority governments needs to have a very. talkative

a very compromising paul humans and i don't see this right now because there is a lot of conflict going on between the parties in the parliament even within the sort of the established mainstream parties but isn't germany based on a system of consensus politics that the parties work together i mean why would the chancellor be so against having a minority government minority governments are still seen as very unstable in germany so this is minority government or rather the thing you do when there is no other option left and it's it doesn't have a very good standing in germany even though it works in other countries so i think the parties and also the public will have will need some time to adjust to this option in the future but i don't think it's an option right now we mentioned that the social democrats youth wing is particularly against going into another coalition government with chancellor merkel's conservatives and their leader kevin

it has been speaking to the media over and over again on this issue let's listen briefly to what he had to say. i'm going to market it means anglo american would have to secure majorities from case to case. she shies away from it because it's not her political star i can understand that all human level german politics can't revolve around the sensibilities of anglo american and get america or europe here. do you think that's fair is that a question of her style that it doesn't play to her sensibilities. i mean yes it is a question of style but still as we already said it's also a question of of the whole of the political system here in germany right we had don't have any experiences with that we had one on the federal level but that didn't work out so. it's really not only because of angle merkel but it's also because of the other parties i mean i think if i remember correctly in two thousand and thirteen the s.p.d.

would have had the chance to form minority government with the green party because they would have had a leftist majority with the left party but they didn't want to do it because it's just not the usual thing to do in germany right so it will take some time for the parties to adjust to this new option i think it has been an hour one hundred seventeen days since the election this is been a very protracted process how has this changed the political process in germany i think. the public will have to get used to these longer coalition building talks but still i don't think it has these necessary necessarily these negative consequences because the government is still working right and there's nothing very pressing that needs to be done right now and that that a caretaker government can't do so i think. we will be faced with these these hard

coalition formation things in the future but i don't think that this long time will have any negative consequence. right political analyst kraus from berlin humboldt university spanier thank you very much for your analysis this morning. and we will have full coverage of the vote and the fall out on a sunday you can watch it all right here on d.w. or stream it online at www dot com now german lawmakers have voted in favor of a law that clamps down on anti-semitism the new legislation will create the post of anti-semitism commissioner in the german government for the first time the move was prompted by a vents at a recent appropriate demonstration in germany legislators also blamed the growth of right when populism on increasing anti-semitism. last december mainly arab protesters chanted slogans intifada until victory and down with israel at

a demonstration in berlin it was the burning of the israeli flag at a pro palestinian demonstration near the brandenburg gate right in the heart of the german capital that sparked a fresh debate over the growing anti-semitism in germany. now lawmakers want to act by installing an anti semitism commissioner as recommended by a specially appointed expert group. this report tells us that most anti-semitic activities crimes at attacks come from right wing extremism. it's. called. but also that a growing number of anti semitic action has immigrated. give bango is. by people who come from a region where hatred of israel and anti semitism are widely being cultivated.

over. six million european jews were murdered during the nazi era germany special responsibility for jewish life is political consensus speakers from the greens the s.p.d. and the left party more in that anti semitism is not limited to a few extremists when the expectant moms don't is there the committee was very clear in its statement that anti semitism is widespread and leads right to the middle of society to unions to church congregations even to the political parties nine times. the right wing populist alternative for germany party or a f t however which has openly called for a turnaround in the way germany commemorates world war two says islam is the elephant in the room when it comes to defining the real threat to jewish life visine but still we can all see it you call it immigration mr color or people from other cultures and north africa and the middle east several members of parliament say that the f.d.a.

itself has an anti semitism problem and that there are even holocaust deniers among the right wing populist the german parliament agreed a resolution against all forms of anti-semitism with a large majority including a hefty votes. to hong kong now where democracy activists are battling in the courts over a protest that happened nearly four years ago on wednesday joshua wang one of the leading the figures in the so-called umbrella movement was sentenced to three months in jail long was found guilty of obstructing a protest camp clearance during the two thousand and fourteen rallies that paralyzed parts of the city it's the second time he's been imprisoned supporters gathered outside the courthouse promising to continue their civil disobedience. more than a dozen other activists were given suspended prison terms one of them was nathan law one of the leading activists in this group he joins us from hong kong for more on the story and nathan thank you very much for joining us on our program what is

the state of your case right now could you still go to prison. well yes probably because josh award. for two cases the one. having heard that yes three days are to go and no one was having friday two months ago but we appealed and we are waiting for their verdict or the court of appeal so for the previous events that may present or more than two months. away. but we've been threatened or my. case will be i think further in the near future so for the time being. the. case and he has another awaiting case. which is waiting for the further it may lead him to get into jail for the second point ok you mentioned joshua also. both back in jail have you

been in contact with them one of they've been saying. yes definitely i paid a visit to josh show yesterday and he's fine and he's actually i think they can take as before and he is getting used to the environment or the prison because. the second times are getting to be getting to the present and i'm sure that my fellow activists they are very calm to impress women because that is the challenge that the government imposed if we could get along with it we can and do all of these. in prison than we have. to to to put on a that's a sentiment we also heard from joshua long just before he went to jail let's listen to what he said to the media. but they.

don't quite you know. you know you're right. do you agree with that sentiment i mean how do you feel about the prospect of spending time behind bars. oh definitely because i was locked in a. few months ago and. i could see you know that sentiment even though i cannot get in touch with. my mind you i'm going to keep sending messages to the beat of. the pos a message to the public so as long as we could think through the. time in the past maybe approach was to contribute to the democratic movement. but nathan aren't the jailings in these court cases discouraging young people from joining your movement. well definitely that would be

chilling effect expect really when the call is ruling heavily in terms of sentencing. on the other hand the sacrifice for all those who are impressed and could also means by that we could set an example feel as them to face these people they struck. the common good of society by risking comes out i think it also encourages more people to come out. so i think it has both sides but the most important thing is the one who are suffering which is who we. actually feel if we think that we could and do of these painful experience and we can hang on now your umbrella movement had wide support in two thousand and fifteen brought parts of hong kong to a standstill and you were demanding free and fair elections but has anything really

changed since then. well to be honest the situation gets worse the interventional getting which will then be full and for example the disqualification of them question lots of legislators and i am the one who was elected by more than fifty thousand voters but the government disqualified me by. explaining the lol from beijing site so that's definitely that's a safe thing situation on call and i think most of the democratic supporters they do hang well and they look forward to a bright future but now. look side battles between the come from between beijing and the democratic process you know nathan you said in the past that part of what drives you is that you're fighting for equality in hong kong

but people there are very divided over support of your movement so what about your demands would really make a difference in terms of equality. well equalities one over i'll call said it when we fly will see and definitely the cone what if i did a society and the way we moved away to was democracy is difficult because the rise of china people. they look at when the they are located at. getting a free ride china's economy so so that it is quite decided but i think if we wish for. impressive values we help those in the privileged in the home call them people who are recognize that democracy is the system that protects us all and

strive for equality all right hong kong politician and democracy activist nathan la nathan thank you so much for joining us on a program. now another issue of causing great frustration in hong kong is the crowded city sky high rents for the poor that can mean hard choices social housing is scarce forcing people to share tiny apartments others literally sleep in cages our next report shows one woman's drive to find homes and dignity for hong kong's destitute some have doctored the angel of the poor. their home is a cage seven men live in a single room in bitter poverty they often don't have enough money for three meals a day. mr long shows us where he's been living for years. he gets about five hundred euros in welfare every month nearly half of which he spends

on his cage bed and electricity. is expendable as trash we have been cast out he has given up on us. their only ray of hope is life shannon she visits them regularly and asks how they're doing what they need and brings them extra money for food. she works for an aid organization that looks after people living in miserable conditions in hong kong. everything is ready set and also use for a shameful because the whole call we have here from his office and people they are so rich in hong kong and that the governments have huge losses so i think that up once you have the capacity and resources to help these people but we just allow this to happen. anywhere in the world is living space is an affordable as in hong kong there's very little room for the more than seven million residents but there are plenty of buyers for luxury apartments

a profitable business for real estate companies. buying an apartment is barely affordable even for the middle class it's long been the norm for them to spend hundreds of their income on rent or animal gauge hong kong is a housing nightmare for many. people call her the angel of the poor because of her efforts to help out visits the home of thirteen year old czech ming onus here have subdivided many of the apartments into mini lodgings known as shoe boxes with just a part time job and welfare all this mother and child can afford are about two and a half square metres with a bunk bed and a small table the mother cries a lot and wishes she could provide something better for her son so you very much. our apartment should really be big enough that my son and i can move around freely . little in his own but here it's so small that we can only enter

the room one at a time. checkmating won't tell his classmates how he lives he's too ashamed most people here work but they don't earn enough for an apartment of their own so several people are forced to share a grubby kitchen and a single bathroom aboard their only hope is a state subsidized apartment but the waiting list is several years long. and gives advice helps people deal with bureaucracy and puts pressure on officials where she can. meet me in the slightest ways easy to people being really feel really really there you know hopeless and helpless because . here you can even use it in some ways many hearts and some people you know more easily and besides now so many people and i didn't know.

about surgery percent of hong kong's residents live in subsidized housing but there's not nearly enough to go around the hunt for an affordable living space even drives people to live in corrugated iron hops atop factories with little by way of safety features it's illegal and dangerous. but where else are people supposed to go. children are especially vulnerable ly shan herself grew up in poverty and knows how they fail many don't even have enough space at home to do their homework. the aid organization has other volunteers who help them too. and here they're taught not to be ashamed of being poor. they're still images well because they feel that you period in others and it wasn't how was it it a day at the beginning they're not feeling that bad but what caused the other

people they don't know that there was ample we have with us some children their house minority. living in this kind of eating small space and. lying xan is calling for more subsidized housing from the city government she says too much land goes to the powerful real estate companies she's already helped thousands of residents to move from their shoe box dwellings to subsidized housing sometimes it took years such as with ms tie up the apartments the bigger the rents cheaper for residents it means a complete life style change fewer worries and more money left over it's a never ending job but a rewarding one i feel happy because when i help people there in the because situation i feel very sorry for them and so i wore her and they finally put their situation may be very happy. i don't know because. helping people is

kind of happiness. those living in cage beds generally pay more rent for their space than people who live in subsidized flats if it weren't for life shan's help mr long and the other men here might not even have warm clothing for the cooler winter nights or the world getting more and more crowded housing shortages are demanding increasingly creative solutions estonian architects are using clever design to squeeze the most out of limited living space. people in the stony and capital have got used to the size of tiny has a scattered around talent the architect who designed them mark believes downsizing is the only way forward space and resources become ever scarcer and he says the whole house should be eco friendly. this is by comparison six centimeters the same right fifty centimeters food so we can imagine that. the

story was the houses can operate off the grid and he has renewable energy solar panels on the roof provide electricity as we started to make buildings small as possible when we're at the same time was in. the free space of two so but you can really move here there's plenty of space for one but a couple might already find is a base of a squeeze there are twenty five square metres of floor space a fully equipped yunis cost about eighty thousand euros. the estonian design has won several prizes and demo has its have already been installed near london and amsterdam. set it up by the similar way like we're talking about it here it goes all day but when you bring it. to them it takes like three four was so question is always more than the. most houses are rooted to the spots however at this

particular model can be moved without much difficulty and the estonian government finds that very interesting we see really great potential in it because it kind of represents the dynamic not nature of today's digital society because people are moving and they're not always in one location they're not necessary location dependent so having this kind of temporary uses for for living spaces as well it's really important the units can be stacked or linked horizontally homes can be made of multiple units the design allows for such flexibility. it's a stone a testing platform and when it works in a stone then it's works much much easier in the bigger cities where all every square with as much as water meter is much much more expensive the designer of this tiny house is thinking big it could have revolutionize housing and the housing

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