this is g.w. news live from berlin kong kong police crackdown on pro-democracy protesters tear gas filling the streets as police moved in to clear the crowds the protesters have been marching against the organized gangs who had attacked earlier demonstrations we'll get the latest from our correspondent in hong kong. similar scenes in the moscow arrests as russians attempt to rally demanding free and fair local elections hundreds of people have been detained including opposition politicians banned from

running for office our correspondent is in the russian capital for us with more. on the call for they should welcome to the show we start in hong kong where police are cracking down on protesters they have been marching to demand action against a 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 banned by a forty's this area was the site to file and last week as men and 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 from hong kong is our correspondent mike he has bailing out but he has been and those protests since this

morning now night has fallen how has the situation changed. so what we're seeing now is maybe the last remnants of this protest there have been clashes throughout the district at several locations. some of them at the same time during the day just a few dozens or maybe hundreds of protesters live police are driving them closer to the m.t.r. station so that they can leave i think pretty much that this this site has been cleared now this protest here in this district has not been had not been allowed by the police it was a protest against these white clad men who had attacked commuters and protesters last weekend on their return from the city center. and the police have claimed that it would be too dangerous too to allow for

a protest here people came anyway they came with a lot of excuses some said they were going on a shopping spree others said that they had some kind of a religious assembly. for one or 2 hours they gathered here but police decided or own 5 or 6 o'clock he cited to go in fire tear gas and drive them out of the streets of your lawn. police were criticized last week for failing to stop those armed attacks against demonstrators now thousands are in the streets despite that police ban that you just talked about how angry are the protesters at the police. one thing you hear often at these demonstrations is the words gang which means black police turkish police protesters and a part of the hong kong population has have really lost faith in the police during these actions it's all started in the very beginning when police used an

unprecedented amount of tear gas plus rubber bullets which has not been happened in the last 20 years against protesters who blocked the legislative council that was trying to lecture a bill that would allow for extraditions to china since then and in an independent investigation of police actions is one of the main things protesters have been demanding and with each week and with each clashes that we see of course the tensions are rising demonstrations began weeks ago against that controversial extradition bill but now they seem to be about much more he spoke with hong congress in the streets today let's listen to what they had to say. no this is illegal demonstration in hong kong. ri would like to tell the government the hong kong people and the citizens would like to tell the government won't be 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 a policeman because our openness and our force is the important to change hong kong all the people in hong kong. do not. do not like the. pilots. they. try to protest. you know and also hong kong. but here as we are there no one is mentioning that extradition bill anymore and stand there talking about safety and violence has the focus of these protests shifted. well some people still do mention the extradition bill from time to time but it's true you do not see these these slogans against the extradition bill that much anymore people are still angry

that the government has shelved this bill but not with drawn but now they're focusing more on what has happened in the last few weeks because many people see this police brutality what they perceive as excessive police brutality. as a symbol of how hong kong is governed and how their voices are heard so this is about the relationship between the hong kong government that is a government at the will of beijing and the hong kong people and the police is in the middle of that the police have become a symbol of the violence that people perceive their government the violent attitude it has to them this movement started out peaceful we are talking a lot about police violence has the movement itself turned more violent to. you know part of the movement have radicalized of course there was the storming of the legislature where people went into the legislative chamber and vandalized it so

this is something unprecedented in hong kong as well. but i think it's from both sides because the police are reacting much earlier to protests they are going in more massively and at the beginning and at the beginning at the beginning they were very much confrontational and driving away the protesters then we have seen a phase where they have let the protest is more or less do what they want and they were not seen at all or they were seen in very small numbers a de ask elative strategy but now they're back on the streets it's very hard to say now who has become more violent but the tensions between the 2 the mistrust and the aggression of both camps against each other has been on the rise and the protesters are very defiant of authority and the band today they still came out and protest and yesterday there were demonstrations at hong kong airport do we know what might

come next we're going to see more demonstrations some have already been announced tomorrow there's probably going to be one and next week and the weekend after as well people here have the feeling that this might be the end game about hong kong and this distrust against the government amongst these protesters and a big part of the population is so big that people have the feeling that retreating now which is to leave the ground for beijing to do what it wants and that's why we are seeing this defiance although i don't think many of them have the hope that they can change things for better it's just resistance against a perceived deterioration of the governance of the city spending out in hong kong thank you very much. let's now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world to me has been

holding a state funeral for a late president a subsidy it was the country's 1st head of state to be elected in nationwide polls thousands lined the streets of the capital tunis to bid him farewell died thursday at the age of 92 and his death has sparked fears of political unrest in tunisia. the indian navy helicopters and emergency service boats have rescued some 700 people from a train stranded in flood waters near mumbai torrential monsoon rains left the tracks submerged and the train partially under water officials said a relief train would take passengers to their destinations. will be one of several strong earthquakes have struck islands in the far northern philippines killing at least 8 people and leaving dozens of others injured locals fled their damaged homes and took shelter in town squares as aftershocks shook the region public buildings including a 19th century church were severely damaged. to moscow now where

hundreds of people have been arrested as they attempted to rally outside the mayor's office demanding free and fair local elections this comes after a raft of opposition and independent candidates were barred from running in the city's upcoming council election the protest was declared illegal and police began to detain people gathering for the demonstration before it even began. earlier i spoke to our correspondent emily sure when in moscow as those arrests were going. well yes i saw a lot of arrests and in fact those arrests haven't actually stopped yet 60 curity here at the rally has been extremely tight from the beginning. even as we arrived at the cover of the protests there were rows and rows of police kind of lining the street along where the protest was supposed to take place there's

a huge police presence that continues here now. kind of buses that were at the ready from the beginning to put those arrested protesters in those buses and car them off to prison and at the moment we're seeing scenes across the city of groups of protesters who are gathering and who are shouting out. against the government here against the mayor's office people have even been shouting we have no money so that if that is faction really pouring out on the street and the police are kind of pushing them back wherever they can lighting up pushing them and trying to do some kind of crowd control it seems one justification of the authorities given for barring opposition candidates in these local elections. well independent candidates who want to register for these. elections for the elections to the mosque out parliament they have to actually collect

a certain amount of signatures to be able to be registered and already isn't this that that that they didn't collect enough signatures and that many of the signatures were actually invalid now the opposition candidates themselves who were collecting those signatures say we have proof that those signatures are valid and they cite examples of kind of the also already putting fake names in the database names that are clearly clearly wrong and of and of them doing that consciously and consciously blocking there can be the candidates from running in the elections the protesters are saying that dozens about much more than just the local elections what are they hoping to buy rallies such as this one. well the protesters today in moscow really what i found interesting is that it's really a fix people young and old about have come out onto the streets and they've been shouting that this is our city they've also been chanting against the police police

as those arrests were made shouting and the mayor and shouting for the candidate to be registered but what people here have told me that he clearly the people i can to say this is about much more than moscow the whole country is looking to us now and we need to show them that we are ready to come out even when there's an authorized protest even when it could be dangerous we want the sorties to see how many of us there are and we want to defend our democratic right to vote for who we want to vote for the good people here have been telling me. thank you and lisa irwin in moscow. in cycling agan bernama is set to win this year's tour de france after he held onto his lead throughout the penultimate stage the colombian held off his closest competitors on the steep climb of 2 as a tell you mentioned soni bali won the stage that means they are not simply has to cross the finish line on the shelves of these a in paris on sunday as tradition dictates that the general classification leader is not attacked on the final stage

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