this is news coming to you live from berlin another night of protest in budapest several thousand government demonstrators rally outside the studios of hungry public broadcaster after opposition m.p.'s were thrown out of the building earlier protestors message. the door will come back through the window. also coming up on international migrants day people recount abuse at the hands of the libyan coast guard while libya says it's just doing its job all holding back those trying to

flee to europe. and chinese president xi jinping issues a clear challenge to the united states says he celebrates forty years of prosperity under his country's economic reform. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program trade unions in hungary have been threatening to press ahead with nationwide strikes if the right wing government of viktor orbán does not revoke controversial new labor laws laws have drawn thousands of protesters onto the streets late monday they turned out to show their support for opposition m.p.'s who'd been trying to get their concerns heard by the state broadcaster. m frustration. of budapest again it's the big issue of opposition to the country's leadership in the years. outside the state t.v.

headquarters riot police moved to despair protesters furious that their leaders were dragged from the building by armed guards. who was leading this opposition m.p. had wanted to read a list of demands on national television including a return to independent public media. and state he was dumped on the street. only. four days protesters have been venting their outrage at the government and the public broadcaster. was that you know much of it's a very good t.v. channel for fairytales they don't broadcast the kind of stories that i would show my children in the future. things kicked off following a rowdy parliamentary session last week when viktor or bonds government tightened its grip on the judicial system the husbands will now be independent and it

weakened employment rights described as a slave law by critics. the moves incensed opposition parties and rallied a massive backlash. against that move and then we don't want to go back to the communist times. what we are experiencing now in hungary wasn't seen during communism. it's level of oppression and corruption. something must be done this cannot go on. despite the crowds here viktor orban remains a popular figure among. but if these protests are ready to go by a vocal section has had enough. let's cross over to journalist stuff on both seas in the hungary and capital budapest has been covering these protests stephon our put our piece there just pointed out that the that the leader of hungary viktor

orban is still quite popular he's been in power for eight years he's maintained a pretty clear line in terms of policy why are these protests happening now. i think what really sparked protests. that just passed last week into building behind me debt is to and gary in parliament building and basically it means debts employee employer second force employees to work a four hundred hours overtime and they will only get paid for it every sewer cheer debt sparky's but since debt time. i think came became clear that the frustration over the last nine years under prime minister viktor orban who protesters really see as an out of critic leader at day really now are demanding more than only to slave law it has been expanded to all the areas such as said

demands for a free media day for instance and resoldered also doing tonight a neutral state television and to day say so far that he's not the case they really view state television as orbán television so. i think that is really what's what we see now and also people really want an independent judiciary because they say to change his stance the happened in recent days impacting the courts whole soul and makes it to difficult to fight for our rights the effect prime minister viktor orban will not have full control over for instance cases such as corruption and police abuse so that is a concern as well. i'm sure that viktor orbán would describe the labor law reforms not in terms of of slave laws but something else but otherwise the government really hasn't been responding much to these protests is the government simply waiting for the protests to peter out or do they have a strategy. yes indeed and of course that the slave loyce critics call it they

call it labor force and yes i think a he is waiting really. two to see watch will happen already dick government has described it to people here as a mercenary self george soros. supporting races the central european university and author writes initiatives but of course he and his organization have denied it now i think that the prime minister is waiting for how much momentum. groups will really get and whole many people will go on the streets well by typical we have seen already thousands of people gathering and i think also you can behind me just a second ring as well so we have to see how it will go on for the coming days stuff and thank you very much for bringing us up to date to journalist stuff on boats there talking to us from budapest thank you welcome three well it's traditional

migrants day an opportunity to recognize the contributions made by migrants to the economies of their host countries but it's also a reminder of the need to promote respect for their human rights our next report looks at the plight of the thousands of migrants who are stranded in libya as they risk everything to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean. stranded and in despair hundreds of thousands and you are green day to day existence in libya's capital tripoli clinging to hope of a new life in europe the chances are minimal the risks are enormous and have been at that i'm going to get i want to leave and go anywhere else and i'm twelve years old and i want to future to go to school and live my life there's nothing here. but that on the hot it was dangerous on the mediterranean but what if the choice do i have to try and reach. it will be very had and i don't even have the holy month of

the week the injured and the sick come to this health center run by refugee aid organizations for help up to three hundred patients a day are treated here. hyder abraham fled from sudan to tripoli hoping to carry on to europe. but in libya he experienced torture and abuse. took a kalashnikov and hit me on the neck and on my back. beat my legs and finally they took a knife and cut my skin open. a doctor who has treated countless refugees who fell into the hands of the libyan coast guard he says the medical care in the reception camps is catastrophic. there are malnourished people there are wounded we will give a state to be able there are people with chronic diseases wouldn't take their medication for a long time the libyan coast guard on the other hand considers itself on course

this year crews have already returned thirteen thousand people to the mainland brought them back and then lock them up italy has lent libya seven ships provided training and tip the coast guard off to suspicious boats this year the number of refugees arriving in italy is down by eighty percent the coast guard sees that as a success we send them a message the message that said don't to try to do it again because you will lose your money you'll lose your time and then we'll take you with. because backed. n.g.o.s conducting rescue operations are a thorn in their side a libyan coast guard spokesman says the n.g.o.s are hindering their work and shows a video to substantiate his claim german activists from the nonprofit see watch are seen plucking people out of the water although the coast guard was allegedly there first and wanted to help in his eyes they're sending the wrong signal yes and you

know if a thousand people make it to europe than ten thousand migrants will come to libya and if ten thousand make it then there'll be one hundred thousand new ones the numbers are going through the roof. but where should they go the hundreds of thousands of people who want to leave libya. they beat me and i'm not the only one with the coast guard caught us on the high seas and forced us to return. the libyan coast is the ugly underbelly of the european refugee crisis. well joining us now in the studio is monica garages she is the chief of mission for the international organization for migration here in germany good to see you today is international migrants day the u.n. is promoting it under the banner migration with dignity but as we just saw in our report there there's not much dignity in conditions for millions of migrants who

are trying to find safer ground. indeed indeed and this is precisely the reason why we chose the theme migration with dignity and it's for three reasons first because dignity is the core of our work we see migrants every day we work with migrants every day and treating them with dignity is our main responsibility second because migration is a force for dignity it is what allows people to choose to save themselves it is what allows people to choose to educate themselves to protect themselves. and it is what allows people to choose participation over isolation to choose hope over fear and the third one is because with the adoption of the global compact on migration america week we got a little bit closer to working on dignity you talked about choice when it comes to

migration choosing hope over fear for example but many migrants don't feel they don't have much of a choice yesterday the u.n. general assembly adopted of the voluntary compact on refugees which has been getting a lot of attention in the press this compact aims to give more support to countries dealing with migration what. form will the support take what does that mean in concrete terms in terms of resources for countries trying to deal with libration. well maybe we need to to clarify the come by because yesterday with the compact global compact on refugees was adopted in the un general assembly as you said. in two thousand sixteen the states came together in new york and adopted the new york duration which first saw the adoption of two compact so the work towards the compact the compact on refugees which is the one that was adopted yesterday and the congress becoming a migration the global compact for refugees has been led by. i the u.n.h.c.r.

the un agency for refugees the high commission for refugees and the global compact on migration was a state led process ok which was co facilitated by two countries so thirsty ministration just wondering how it poets these things are really going to help countries like the countries in the european union or libya for example well it's these come facts are. reapers then to i'm talking particularly about the compact for migration because i am from the international reservation for migration presents a framework a framework that contains everything states needs to be able to manage migration so do you see that things are getting better at that i mean in concrete terms we only have a short time left do you see the prospect for improving the lives of migrants coming through libya for example i see it and i think it is fundamental and without such a cooperation framework it is very difficult because it is through

a partnership framework no country can deal with migration along and we need a framework to be able to put the countries together to look at international cooperation to improve the lives of people so monica garage she the chief of mission for the international organization for migration here in germany thank you very much for talking with us today thank you. now let's get you up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today there have been reports of fighting in yemen after a un brokered cease fire took effect between government forces and who the rebels in the strategic port city of hood data a government official said clashes erupted just minutes after the truce began civil war has raged since two thousand and fifteen between the saudi backed government and iran backed rebels. a white house official has denied that u.s. present trump is preparing to deport an opponent of turkish president regift out of one this after a turkish minister said trump told. and cleric. back home

to one has called for extradition accusing him of being behind an attempted coup in two thousand and sixteen. and japan has approved a major increase in defense spending country will get its first aircraft carriers since world war two it will upgrade submarines and air defenses shinzo government says it's aiming to counter chinese moves to expand its military presence. now the reporters without borders has released its annual report and it doesn't paint a pretty picture for freedom of the press and information it's as that eighty reporters or people working in the media have been killed so far this year that's fifteen more than in two thousand and seventeen now most of the deaths happened in afghanistan india yemen syria and mexico. and

the number of jailed journalists has risen to three hundred forty eight three hundred forty eight in jail china egypt turkey iran and saudi arabia accounting for the biggest jailers of journalists well within the being one of the world's worst countries for journalists to work in we use new jobs wa we. which subjects have the most prove the most dangerous one being to stop to cut off uncovered by look at eleven is on the list and these range from the coverage of corruption by politicians or by the police by institutional corruption mostly and also the covering of crime some of the recent deaths which happened some of the recent models that happened whoa whoa could have done this governing criminal networks like the sun mafia and of course the coverage of corruption as well has led to to being just a journalist of one of the most widely covered deaths by awful journalists of the last till the death before the but the report that aborted the john list goes on two years and she is believed to have been killed for being to the critical of him

to write to the extremists this is another faction from this test site increasing and even if it isn't physical harm the feeling of german this online for that aborting specially is critical of the right wing is definitely in writing a lot of how to some of them tracks the journalists were deceived on this on the national level as well as the local level it appears to me just while they're reporting from india well vietnam is another country that keeps a tight leash on its media and that power extends beyond the country's borders t.w. is simon young with a bit amused journalist who has been running an online news portal here in berlin for the last ten years. littrell believes there's a hunger for uncensored information in vietnam especially from young people to reach that audience from his office in far away berlin he's taken to the internet. these. fast food water this information is almost forbid an in vietnam

if a journalist tells the truth about politics he will probably have a problem straight away. and he could be threatened or arrested or beaten up people are so interested to get information about politics that it's all there for us on. literally chua has been publishing pieces on his news website about his home country for ten years usually in vietnamese sometimes in german mostly he writes about vietnamese politics and the situation of his country many in europe. he's reported many times on the case of chinch one ton who sort of asylum in germany but was allegedly kidnapped in berlin by vietnamese agents and now faces trial in hanoi such stories says lee truong chua have annoyed the vietnamese or thora to.

our website has been blocked in vietnam since july twenty seventh seen normally when you type in. d e nothing comes up. he says a lot of his information comes from journalists in vietnam who can't tell what they know there but he says even working in germany is dangerous. and we are by then if we work here we get threats really from real people they call us or they send a text saying they want to kill us. despite the obstacles is getting past the vietnamese senses he says his site was accessed more than two and a half million times during a recent month mostly from computers in vietnam but that success will not stop him calling for greater freedom of speak in germany never shuts down a vietnamese page so why does vietnam close a german page it's not right it's an injustice which must be ended that's.

a. bit of breaking news now from the world of football english premier league giants manchester united have parted ways with manager joe say marine yo with immediate effect club released a statement thanking him for his work and wishing him success in the future the firing follows manchester united's three one defeat to liverpool at the weekend leaving them with twenty six points after seventeen premier league games their worst tally at that stage since the one thousand nine hundred ninety one season. i know some people smiling just now not sure if it's fair but i know some people smiling just now not me i'm not. taking sides in these things monica you are taking a smiling look to china exactly the land of smiles terry and today china marks forty years since its economy opened up to the rest of the world a move that ultimately turns china into

a global economic powerhouse second in g.d.p. only to the united states now forty years ago china's g.d.p. hovered around only one hundred fifty billion dollars annually now nearly twenty years later nine hundred ninety seven it broke through the trillion dollar ceiling and by last year g.d.p. had grown to over twelve trillion dollars now in his speech marking the anniversary chinese president xi jinping vowed to to press ahead with economic reforms but he also made clear that beijing will not deviate from its one party system or take orders from any other country. it was an impeccably choreographed event designed to showcase china's transformation from an inward looking farming based society to the economic giant it is today. the country's president xi jinping credited forty years of what he termed to socialism with chinese characteristics for lifting people out of poverty and pushing china on the

international stage. but that stage now more than ever is fraught with tension in a thinly veiled reference to his country's month long trade dispute with the united states she had this to say. so. there is no textbook of rules to follow for the reforms and opening of china a country with five thousand years of history and civilization and with a population of more than one point three billion people no one is in a position to dictate to the chinese people what should or shouldn't be done. no one not even seemingly the leader of the most powerful economy in the world this footage shows cheating paying having dinner with u.s. president donald trump at the g twenty summit in argentina earlier this month the result was an agreement to a ninety day truce in their trade conflict. but the arrest since then of

a top executive at chinese tech equipment giant while way has left that truce on shakier ground then ever the tone coming from beijing today was defiant china won't be pushed around. for more on china its economic success and how it's being celebrated today i'm joined by clifford coonan who works in china as a correspondent and you of course have been following today's celebrations especially also speech what did you make of it well i think as we heard in the report that in tone it was defiant in terms of content goes a little bit vague on detail and it didn't provide a lot of the information that maybe the financial markets might have been hoping for information about infrastructure or ways to kickstart the economy which has been flagging a little bit of late. also it makes it a little bit difficult for him to sort of to appear to be saving face in the face of u.s. pressure while also coming up with

a substantial trade deal of course i mean those very strong woods they're saying he won't take orders and nobody can tell china how to do business aimed directly at the white house is beijing strong enough for making such a call i think there's two things going on with the one is that this speech was aimed at the domestic audience and showing that china is strong by standing up to the us and if we remember that over the years china has the soviet union to many other countries and always tried to stay strong so i think he's pushing this message of strength and as we've seen is that the second biggest economy in the world it's still rising so it's certainly still has a lot of muscle there the chinese economic growth has slowed somewhat but of course yeah it's still the powerhouse of the region and how how is it viewed by its neighbors well she didn't things pet project is the belgian road initiative which aims to build infrastructure in central asia europe and southeast asia and that's

still proving popular but people are starting to ask questions i think a little bit about. maybe china trying to be too dominant in the region for the moment though i think most countries are still happy for china to grow their ambitions and how successful is china now forty years after it reinvented itself how successful is it for the chinese themselves i think we've seen a great development there i think we've seen a lot of people lifted out of poverty the poverty rate is drastically lower than it was forty years ago at the same time. the rising middle class has also led to great consumption and we've seen a lot of. we just seen a huge development across the board so i think for ordinary chinese the last forty years are probably measures of success story and what we see another relaunch now forty years ago it reinvented itself any other relaunch politically economically on the horizon well i think one thing that i noticed today was that you jumping is hailing the success of the forty years but to

a certain extent he's also saying that period he sees himself in that tradition but he's also sort of thing that's happened now and now it's the xi jinping era so i think that's one of the signature things of the of the speech today that he's very much putting himself at the center of china's future development ok so somewhat looking forward to their clifford koonin there is a correspondent in china thank you so much for joining us thank you. and here's a reminder now of the top stories we're following for you. there's been another night of anti-government protests in hungary as demands on viktor or about right wing governments and grow protesters calling for controversial labor laws to be dropped and they want an independent judiciary i'm state media. and china is marking forty years since its economy opened up to the rest of the world chinese president xi jinping vowed to press ahead with economic reforms that made

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