this is d.w. news line from berlin hong kong police crackdown on pro-democracy protesters will look in a 2nd at live pictures as police moved in to clear the crowds of protesters were marching against the organized gangs that attacked earlier demonstrations will go to our correspondent in hong kong. similar scenes in moscow as russians attempt to rally demanding street and fair local elections more than 200 people have been arrested including opposition politicians banned from running for office will go to

moscow for the latest. word and 2 big wins for president trump in this battle over the border be u.s. supreme court says he can use military funding for his border wall and want tamala agrees to stop u.s. bound my friends after trying to terror threats to. hundreds of people have been arrested as they attempted to rally on the streets of moscow demanding free and fair local elections this after a raft of opposition and independent candidates were barred from running in the city's upcoming city council election the protest was declared illegal and police began to detain people gathering for the demonstration. before it even began.

we're further. our correspondent and we sure were and has been following that very tense situation in moscow emily you were there as the police made those arrests tell me about the security at the rally how tight is it. well i'm actually here at the moment when arrests seem to be happening or about to happen just to the left of me there's actually a line of police kind of lining up and it seems that the protesters that you see behind me may be arrested rather soon let's hope not security has been very tight even going into these meetings along the main road where the protest was supposed to be held in the main square here in the center the roads were blocked off police were lined up there were buses prepared to kind of take on arrested protesters and

even ahead of the protest as well there were warnings including from they are sick of young and saying that this protest would be dangerous and that provocations could be expected that doesn't seem to have deterred the muscovites of the protesters that you see behind me they're kind of walking around the center and they keep being pushed back by various lines of police what justification have the authorities given form barring opposition candidates in these local elections. well the author already is have said that the opposition candidates who were registering as independent candidates in these upcoming moscow city parliament elections that they have actually not collected enough signatures you have to collect a certain amount of signatures to be able to be registered as a candidate none of those counted it's were registered the authorities said that these signatures were not valid they cite. mistakes they cited false identities

meanwhile the candidates themselves refused to believe that they say that the authorities consciously didn't write down the right names and put down the right names into the database when they were putting down those signatures and that that's why they haven't been registering this is about much more than just local elections what are the protesters hoping to achieve by rallies such as this. one. if i think what's notable today about the protest is that there really is a mix of people here young and old and this has become about more than the moscow city council elections a local election that parliament doesn't have too much power but people here at the process of told me that actually this is more symbolic than the moscow everyone will be watching moscow around the country that's what protesters here say you can

hear there at the fire at me shouting against the police who are approaching and who are gathering around and they say that this is about democracy they say they want the right to vote for candidates that they want to vote for thank you give us a sense of how much support the opposition has in russia was. well it's always hard to judge how much support the opposition has across the country particularly as many of the candidates are permitted to run in elections as we see in this in this case as well and as we saw in the case of opposition politician on the scene not find me at the presidential elections but what i can tell you is that support for the ruling party united russia has been dropping just this this month a state. a state pollster found that it is shopped to a minimum of just over. 30 percent we've just heard

a loud bang behind us i'm not sure what's what's going on it's all possible to you and yet you know you please please go somewhere safe thank you very much. thank you . let's go to hong kong our police are cracking down on protesters they've been marching to demand action against gang attacks on pro-democracy demonstrations police are clearing crowds using tear gas and the district of u.n. long war protests took place despite a ban by authorities this area was the site of violence last week as men in white t. shirts attacked pro-democracy protesters and bystanders demonstrators are angry about the slow police response to those attacks hong kong has seen months of protests triggered by a controversial extradition bill. joining me now is our correspondent munty has burning in hong kong as you've been at this protest this

morning now that night is falling in hong kong how has the situation changed. well in the late often on when voters when a story. so in the late afternoon protests were dispersed by the police police went in with tear gas driving the protesters away it is not very clear to me what triggered this. obviously or that it was a police standoff between protesters and the villages who were living in this area and they were fearing this might end up in some clashes between the 2 camps the village and associated with these criminal gangs that came in last. weekend that beat up protesters returning from the march that have happened in the city center and also commuters so what police has done so far driving

protesters to these alleys that you can see here with shia gas some objects have been at the police there were clashes in several areas now this just a few 100 people left here and police is coming in so i think they are going to disperse sometime in the next few hours police were criticized as you said last week for failing to stop those armed attacks now thousands are in the streets despite the police on how angry are the protesters at the police. the protesters are very angry at the police and the image of the police or are. you that the people take on the police i think here is a rapidly during the week during the 8 weeks of protests that we have been seeing now the police was once respected in hong kong but now people held at demonstrations like money which means police. specially of

course the demonstrators but also overall the population is angry at the police they think that the the amount of violence that police use on protesters to disperse them has been. thank you much and many of them demand an investigation into police operations and police tactics during the week this is one of the key point. demonstrations began weeks ago against a controversial extradition bill but now things seem to be about much more you spoke with hong kong in the streets today let's have a listen to what they had to say no this is illegal demonstration in hong kong. really would like to tell the government the hong kong people and the citizens would like to tell the government what we are asking for so that's why we're here after poll to our city so we are here and all together. i still think that i must come out. and. told out

my opinion to polish man because our openness and our voice is the important to change hong kong all the people in hong kong. do not. do not like. they. try to protest. you know and also hong kong. and he is as we heard there and no one mentioning that extradition bill anymore instead of talking about safety and violence has the focus of these protests shifted. yes it has you will still you have people talking about the extradition bill the problem is not over yet but this. disbelief these clashes and this police violence that has been perceived as exposed excessive has led to his his trace in society not the tactics of the

police and the attitude of the government are much bigger issues because the government has not replied to the demands of the of society that has basically not been seen almost at all during these weeks and. an evaluation of hong kong's all of these actions during this time and police actions is one of the main demands and underlying is of course the relationship that hong kong people have with their government their feeling of being powerless against the government that listens only to what beijing said is and the government of course doesn't like the look of this at all today's protest was banned we mentioned that before on what grounds exactly fly police so that's of security could not be gotten teed because in this area you have these because these white clad men they were from this area the area has a bit of

a reputation of being. a place where try is the hong kong kind of mafia have a stronghold so put police were saying they could not guarantee the safety of the demonstration and this is why they banned it. clashes between protesters and police have been intensifying over the past 7 weeks as men started off 6 fully are we now saying it becoming more and more violent float we are definitely seeing more and more clashes it's always hard to say which side is. is more responsible for this kind of tense attitude and this more aggressive stance towards each other because we're at the same time seeing that police are starting to to dispose protests much earlier they are using that they are allowing a lot less than they used to allow maybe 4 weeks ago so we are seeing tensions on

both sides rice police officers always come also complain that they have been targeted in unfair ways by protesters for example by their personal data being leaked in the internet so we are seeing both sides of hardening we are probably going to see these these kind of clashes going on for another year or so you hinted at it before not everybody is supportive of this movement is social division in hong kong growing because of because of these protests for that's very hard to say they have not i have not seen any reliable surveys all of this the expectation would always have been that the more violent things get and to have been some actions that were not like that were not supported by many people like storming the legislature for example. but this has not led to people.

turning away from the protest as in mawson's a lot of people say that they don't support this action or that action or that all of these. attitudes. of some of the more radical approach has does but we are not seeing support for the government growing and this is something that the government should really think about. how they've handled all this and how they were losing public support at such a rapid pace we haven't heard from kerry land in a while what stance is she taking on on these protests and on. there there while inside intensifying. it occasionally she comes out and she. says violence and i ask people to respect the rule of law but we have heard very little of both as you have mentioned

which means that we do not really know what stance she is taking the only thing she has done is to shelve this extradition bill. but not withdraw it which is one thing that keeps angering the protesters but basically the government has not been seen during all of the all of the time even opposition lawmakers were not able to do to carry around so we are seeing really that this has gone out of hand the government has really mishandled this whole case and even people from the probe aging camp ah saying this now this is really an example of bad communication of a government reacting in a complete wrong way to this kind of discontent in society so mass protests in day demonstrations yesterday at hong kong's.