when i was in the car is the world really getting better. by global 3000 special report. starts august 19th on g.w. . the astutely good news live from berlin hong kong police crackdown on pro-democracy protesters tear gas filled the streets as police moved in to clear the crowds of protesters were marching against the organized gangs in tact earlier demonstrations they also accuse the police of deliberately holding up their response to the assaults. and arrests and last hour as russians attempt to rally

demanding slate and fair local elections hundreds of people have been detained including opposition politicians banned from running for office are postponed and is in the russian capital for us with more. and hundreds of thousands are out and proud on the streets of berlin as the city celebrates its annual pride parade and this year it's marking a special anniversary. on a flourish welcome to the show we start in hong kong where police have been cracking down on protesters they've been marching to demand action against gang attacks on pro-democracy demonstrations police cleared crowds using tear gas in the district of one longmore protest took place despite. banned 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 on congress in months of protests triggered by a controversial extradition. italy a correspondent mighty as filling a is in hong kong and has been following the demonstrations throughout the day here he is with the latest we have not seen what most people feared most of these white clad thugs would attack the demonstrators today but we have seen extensive clashes between the police and the protesters both sides are hardening more and more and more and more protests and in violent clashes this movement is really getting more radical and the police is getting more ready to use force and at an earlier stage of the protests isn't of intervening with massive amounts of tear gas driving

away the protesters at the bottom of all this is a deep mistrust between the hong kong government and a big part of the population people accuse the government of being. of acting on behalf of beijing rather than on behalf of their own population and the government has done little to counter these accusations it has almost not been seen leaving it to the police to deal with these protests these protests are going to continue in this heated up atmosphere in hong kong we are going to see more protests over the next few weeks and chances that they are going to stay peaceful are lower than ever. joining me now in the studio g.w. is terry chan terry what started as a peaceful most men is now turning more and more violent how has it come to this yes so you're right at the beginning to process was largely peaceful when there were 1w2w people went on the streets it was

a very orderly and some family brought the. troops to the protests and they all went well but then in the 2nd week of the protest the police start to use a very aggressive approach to dispose of protestors and many people saying that this is unnecessary violence and so the trust between the protesters to the police relieved them a shot and now you can see the protesters are always tearing up and they always wear helmets and face mask to protect themselves because they think that it's almost certain that the police force them to be disperse them at the end of the protest this started as a protest against a controversial extradition bill that bill has since been shelved but people still come out every weekend why yes so the feel has been shelved but then the people are actually asking for it to be totally destroyed so. there is still one of the reason

that people are still out on the street every week 10 but the focus of the protests also shift very lashley to the police brutality that we were talking about and they actually saying that the government should have an independent investigation to worse is police and to us what happened in the past few weeks and actually the police but the protests particularly today it's about some incident that happened last weekend and so there was an attack by a mall towards indiscriminate towards. the protesters and just normal citizens and the people saying that. the police are actually cooperating with this small so the police of course they deny this claim but this is the general mood of the protesters and they really mistrust the police so they still go on to the protests every with ken what can we expect now do you see an end to this actually

just tomorrow there will be yet and not the protests and then they also are planning on protests next week and the weekend after and. it's really look like it with an end of time soon unless the government. respond to the requests of the protesters how likely is that. really at the pencil on the scale of the protests and how it develops cherry chan thank you very much for your analysis. let's now take a quick look at some of the other stories making news around the world to me but holding a state funeral for the late president seat he was the country's 1st head of state to be elected and nationwide polls thousands lined the streets of the capital tunis to bid him farewell to 70 died thursday at the age of 92 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 monsoon rains left the tracks of merged and the train partially under water officials said in a relief train would take passengers to their destinations. to moscow now where hundreds of people trying to date a rally outside the mayor's office demanding and fair local elections organizations that monitor political arrests in russia say more than 600 people have been arrested while russian police quote half of that number the arrests come out 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 even before it began. our moscow correspondent and we are sure when was at the rally a short while ago i spoke to her here is how she described the situation unfolding

in the russian capital 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 the arrested protesters and even ahead of the protest as well there were warnings including from their 6 cities 5 young and saying that this protest would be dangerous and that provocations could be expected that doesn't seem to have deterred. the muscovites in 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 has have said that the opposition candidates who were

registering as independent candidates in these upcoming moscow city parliament elections that they had 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 candidates were registered the author already said that these signatures were not valid they cited 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 the. one 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 in the process of told me that actually this is more symbolic than 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. they want to vote for. w.'s anyway sure when there are a couple of hours ago if not an authorized rally in moscow city center to sports now and cycling. so when this year's tour de france after he held onto his lead through the final to stage the colombian held office closest competitors on the steep climb up to a volatile as italian intends or volley one the stage that means for not simply has

to cross the finish line on the shelves of music in paris on sunday as tradition dictates that the general classification leader is not attacked on the final stage in formula one there will be no home track advantage for germany fettle the ferrari driver was not amused and left unable to compete in qualifying due to problems with his car it was a different story for lewis hamilton who set the fastest lap time and will start in pole position mercedes driver and reigning world champion currently has a $39.00 point lead and the driver standings. here in berlin hundreds of thousands of people are out on the streets for the annual pride parade this year's event celebrates half a century since the $969.00 stone wall uprising that launched the l.g.b. to rights movement revelers and marching through central berlin towards the brandenburg gate where a concert is taking place right now the event known locally as christopher street

day or c. is d. has taken place annually since 1979 it was named for the new york city street in which pivotal riots took place. a short while ago i spoke to our reporter multinationals who today has one of berlin's most entertaining jobs she's governed of trying for a for us this is what she told us about the mood at the march. that is actually a huge part in here people are in a very good mood you can see the weather's really nice it's a virtual ukraine so not too hard and so people are wearing very colorful costumes some people wearing not much at all because everyone is very very friendly people who don't even know each other talk to each other and they've actually not just l.t.v. t. activists who are demonstrating here on the streets of berlin but it's also climate activists for example and here you can clearly see this is not just a party but it's a demonstration it's a protest because clearly l.c.d. t.v.

people all around the world zones half the same rights to sectionals the year 21000 marks the 50th anniversary of the riots at stonewall and new york's greenwich village which jumpstart at the pride movement how's that anniversary being marked at the parade. as actually a huge topic here even the theme off this year's christopher straight guy is a 50 year the fifty's on a verse 3 off the stone bowl in our riots it's actually called an uprising always begins with your voice i talk to a couple of people here especially a young woman from manchester who knowledge sim brylin and she said yeah it's actually really important for us to stay it's. this this is steve's right it's our not just in parts diet they're important every day because they basically started to be. like the people who've fought back then they are the people who fought for

our rights let's talk a bit about daily life poor people of the community what's the situation in germany in general. actually germany and especially berlin the couples who are considered aside haven't for else you could see people from all over the world some people who are persecuted in their countries often come here refugees come here that's a reason studier and the guy travel index to be imprecise actually found that the situation for travelers for tourists in berlin poland has worsened there and used to be on the germany that used to be on the 3rd rank and it's now in the spend so that's a lot worse and this the reason for that is that there are more violence there's more violence against people even here in poland and germany but i asked a couple of people here on the streets they feel safe and even if they jones

there's actually a retreat sown here close to to where we stand and if people are harassed or feel just committed against they can go there and they have people help them money gnashed house at the berlin pride parade thank you very much. you're watching d.w. news up next our technology show shift i'll be back at the top the hour with more headlines for me and the entire team here and our land thanks for watching. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language for the 1st word the political. week opens in germany to learn german why not with a simple online on your mobile. d w z e learning course because free german.