w. . this is d. w. news live from berlin hong kong protesters are calling it their summer of discontent as they continue to march for democracy looking now at live pictures as police fired tear gas to disperse crowds was barricaded themselves into the city center defying an official ban we'll hear from our correspondent as well as one of the key players in that protest also coming up more than a 1000 people arrested in moscow in the biggest crackdown in years russians were attempting to rally in support of opposition politicians banned from running in

local elections afro testers got plenty of putin's government who are. i'm calling asman thanks for joining us hong kong police are cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators who have defied an official ban to blockade the city center protests were taking place there the chinese government office in downtown hong kong when police unlatched of what unleashed a volley of tear gas canisters it's the 2nd day of such clashes last night dozens were arrested and injured now the marchers are part of a weeks long campaign for greater democracy in hong kong and autonomy from mainland china. i want to go back to our correspondent in hong kong

mathias bollinger you can see he's on the move now mathias what's the scene where you are right now. i have to leave because. it's coming from 2 directions not there i'm trying to go into. a lane that is who. it's really bad at the moment actually police is dispersing protesters with tear gas and. people are running away i don't know what else they have used today. they have been pretty quick at using no rubber bullets and similar. m initially throughout the last. few days today's protests started. an assembly but was permitted but police did not permit the munch that was such to end up in you know where i am now which is near the chinese his own office and so protest has went out swarmed out in different directions to.

2 block major roads in hong kong and. i'm actually feeling they took us pretty badly you know. just a taste let's let you get to a safe location we're going to go ahead and bring in the interview that you did earlier today with one of the key players in these protests that would be joshua long let's take a listen though at a protest get them from police or not polish the you would use pepper spray and rubber bullets and tear gas fire on activists that's why protests get approval from police force or not is not matter any more protests might continue. do you expect protests all clashes to be more frequent. protests might continue on every way and now is not only related to urging the government to terminate a bit the bill now is. the summer off this content to beijing and hong kong

offerman last week we experienced pro beijing gangs and most ordinary citizen yesterday we experience riot police beaten on peaceful protest or inside railway station know where the probation gangs of all is fostering the interest of beijing they are just. hoping to silence the voice of hong kong people what do you think can be the outcome of this protest movement calls for democracy will never stop we will continue our fights lead of hong caution not be appointed by beijing leader of hong kong should be elected by home people. let's see if we can go back now to hong kong where. standing by now mathias you conducted that interview with one of the key players in this movement joshua wong you heard him there saying calls for democracy will never stop what was your sense of of what joshua wong had to say to you. well. there is the

feeling that. we need to. go running now are you really chased away. the police are coming from several lanes around. here. to serve your you know this protest. but. because they feel that it's might be there are chance to protest at all in this city that allows for protests i'm like the chinese mainland. and what it's like to asian there is getting a little bit of missions we want to also make sure you're safe the notion that records come and we'll be sure to check in with you as the situation develops but let's make sure you get to a secure location 1st mathias building a reporting for us in hong kong thank you very much we'll be sure to check back in with you as the day progresses. that was mathias bolinger for us in hong

kong let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a landslide in southwest china has buried a village in mud and claimed at least 36 lives and ongoing rescue operation as recover bodies and son survivors to the hospital landslides are dangerous and brule parts of china particularly after heavy rain. u.s. president donald trump has been accused of launching a racist attack against black democratic congressman allies are coming from fired a volley of tweets calling cummings district of baltimore a quote rat infested mess cummings had criticized conditions for migrants on the us mexico border top democrat nancy pelosi says trump's insults were races and with one focus on 2 american teenagers have been charged with killing an italian police officer in rome the men allegedly stabbed the officer 8 times after he and

a colleague confronted them on friday night over a bag of theft with italian media reports that one of the suspects as confessed. to wonderous and it's deployed its military in a giant operation to combat dengue fever the outbreak has affected more than 28000 people and killed at least 58 officials have called a national emergency to fight the dengue carrying mosquito and launched a fumigation program in homes and public buildings. in moscow the number of people arrested in yesterday's opposition rally reached over 1000 they were attempting to rally outside the marriage office to protest the banning of opposition candidates from upcoming local elections activists say it's the biggest crackdown on dissent in many years. a show of force from moscow police facing off against an unauthorized demonstration as people took to the streets to demand free municipal elections one protester after another is

arrested. for the people taking part here a sign of thirty's in flooded near putin's russia fear their dissent could spread. what you might want to do you cannot be indifferent if we don't start with these local moscow elections when will it ever begin russia is a big country and i hope people will see what we're doing with your mother but sure . and with scenes like these that's what authorities seem determined to prevent as the protests began police stormed the offices of opposition leader alexina found me who had been streaming the demonstration live on the internet they arrested his studio head they also raided internet t.v. station dodged and ordered its editor in chief to undergo questioning. for now the strategy appears to be keep the protestors and their anger against the ruling party contained. well today is world hepatitis day and although the virus is

preventable and treatable it's still one of the world's at least diseases the most severe varieties have otitis be and c kill $1400000.00 people every year that's more than. a burka loss' or malaria scientists estimate the liver condition affects more than 300000000 people worldwide but the majority of them are unaware the world health organization is aiming to eliminate the disease as a public health threat by the. 2030. well for more we're joined now by michael p. mans he is the president of the hun over medical school and has spent much of his career researching liver disease as an viral hepatitis thank you so much for joining us 1st of all we just heard those shocking numbers why do you think this disease does not get as much attention as something like hiv for example we have been fighting for this all over the years i really do not understand why a disease that causes live a can so that causes death from the death toll you mentioned it is more than

$1000000.00 per year it's a shocking number that number and you mentioned a moment of deaths the new age of young tuberculosis we have more than 300000000 chronic carious and this is caused by various viruses have buttons b. c. and d. so it's not understandable why we don't diagnose the disease because we have treatments available now. hepatitis as we heard there it's preventable it's treatable what's holding us back then why are there still so many people dying from is why can't we really get a handle on this disease 1st of all we have to distinguish admitted to be inhabited you see it but that is be we have a vaccine and we have therapies that control of ours we cannot cure the virus of a type you see we do not have a vaccine but we have therapies that cure the disease they the other question is access to therapy it's costly however there has been a change in recent years there is high prised in high income countries by the

generics in low income countries but in countries like germany where access to treatment is available for almost everybody the problem is to diagnose these patients and therefore the world have otitis day is due it has a model that we have to find the millions if we don't diagnose the disease we cannot treat the disease that leads me to my next question a lot of us are wondering ok so 9 out of 10 people affected by have otitis they're not aware that they have it how can that be how can it be that people don't know that they're infected only a minority experiences symptoms when they get the acute disease and the symptoms of liver domino pain are jaundice but others have only for tea and discomfort but the majority doesn't experience any symptoms the just developed chronic infection with b r c and they only experience symptoms when it's too late when they have end stage disease and therefore we need screening programs to diagnose the undiagnosed. in

your opinion where should we be putting more of our resources we should not put resources into diagnostics and screening programs in germany for example we have not included liver enzyme testing and the check up 35 test for cholesterol blood pressure but not for liver enzymes and the 2nd step has to be that we have to educate general practitioners that they if there is elevated enzymes that they don't think it's caused by alcohol not elevated enzymes of the liver as always cause balco very often that are treatable infections like my will have a type is behind it now we heard that the world health organization has a pretty lofty goal they want to eliminate hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030 do you think that's a realistic goal we have to look at the nation by nation for iceland it's very realistic there are around 1100 people that have been identified and there will be cured very shortly we have other countries where very efficient programs are in place like in portugal georgia and even in egypt the countries with the highest

prevalence but other countries including germany we are dropping from the list we have been listed greenlight by the w a jolt 3 years ago but we dropped to yellow because people are thinking we will not achieve the goal of elimination by 2030 because we don't diagnose the i'm in a place like germany even in a place like germany and it's prevalent in the migrant population in the i.v. drug abuser everybody who had blood transfusions before 92 is a risk but we now have to have 3 d. programs in place interesting stuff michael p. mans from the the president of the hun over medical school today on on the national day international day of hepatitis thanks so much thank you very much. all right sports now in cycling a gun there now is set to win this year's tour de france after he held onto his lead through the penultimate stage the colombian held off as close as competitors on the steep climb up to volatile run as the tally invention so nibali one that's

stage but that just means we're all simply has to cross the finish line today in the shop elysium paris as tradition dictates that the race leader should be challenged in the final stage. in formula one there will be no home track advantage for germany's a boston federal the ferrari driver was not amused and left unable to compete in ball flying due to problems with his car was a different story though for lewis hamilton who set the fastest lap time it will start in pole position for safety's driver and reigning world champion currently has a 39 point lead in the driver's standings. and the reminder now the top story that we're tracking for you at this hour on kong police of fired tear gas to disperse crowds blockading the city center you're seeing live images now from that city center area where pro-democracy protesters have been marching in defiance of an official ban for the 2nd straight day unrest is expected to continue

into the night it's that 2nd day of clashes between crowds and police and the latest in what's being called hong kong's summer of discontent. watching the news live from berlin more news at the top of the hour we'll be back with. stan form. in language of course that. video for you. anytime anywhere. w media center.