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lola. i am. the student you news live from berlin hong kong protesters are calling it their summer of discontent as they continue to march for the moccasin looking at live pictures after police fired tear gas to disperse crowds been barricaded themselves into the city center defying an official down here from our correspondent as well as one of the key figures in the protests also coming up more than 1000 arrested in moscow in the biggest anti-government crackdown in years russians were attempting to rally in support of opposition politicians advance on running in local elections now
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a leading activist has been struck by some miracle allergic reaction while in jail and on the world's hepatitis day we asked why more than 300000000 people are still affected by a disease that's treatable and preventable. and accomplish 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 near the chinese government office in downtown hong kong one police unleashed a volley of tear gas canisters it's the 2nd consecutive day of such clashes last night dozens were arrested and many injured the marches are part of a weeks long campaign for greater democracy and hong kong and autonomy from
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mainland china. following the situation as it unfolds as our correspondent once he has bowling a 20 as it's been is yet another day of clashes what's the situation there now. well police are now chasing the protesters with tear gas through the lanes of western on kong island this is an area near the office the liaison office off the central government which is of course a symbol that protesters like to attack they have defaced the national symbol above the door last week and this time police were prepared they had cordoned off the place and when protesters arrived they did not hesitate for a long time to disperse them with tear gas this protest today is basically a protest against police violence but the police had not committed people to
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march in the streets they were admitted to got that one place but a march was it was not approved so people then went out and they occupied several major crossroads in this city to block traffic there. now here this area in western hong kong island is house the scene severe clashes protesters has have set off fires some of them i've seen some of them going towards the police lines with. sticks metal sticks so we are we are in i think for another few hours of protests here and of violent clashes and the beginning these demonstrations were wellesley tolerated by police now after 7 straight weeks we're seeing an increasing amount of force why has that changed you think. well i think there is a dynamic so here i mean it's not entirely true that the protests have been
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tolerated at the beginning some were tolerated those that were approved by the police but in the very beginning police have dispersed one protest on 12th of june with massive amounts of tear gas and rubber bullets and this is when anger. the population started to build up before that it was just about this law that people wanted to prevent from being passed in parliament but the more this has been going on the more angry people have become police have tried several tactics police have after this 1st. massive. violence to disperse the protesters believe has pulled have pulled back and for some weeks they were really really deescalating they were not seen but people's anger has gone nowhere so now they are back and now they are increasingly intolerant of any protests that they don't want to happen they are going in very soon now with massive amounts of
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tear gas leading to more angry protesters so we are really in a spiral of escalation now in hong kong it would need somebody now to moderate between the 2 camps but this is obviously not possible because the hong kong government has disappeared we have not heard of them almost heard nothing of them since the protests have started. and you've been talking to activists today what have they been saying about the way authorities are responding to these protests. but activists seeing the situation as deteriorating they off course blame the or thirty's for what has happening they are expressing people's anger i have talked today to joshua long that is one of the activists was a leader of the protests in 20145 years ago this proves this movement that we are seeing now is lead to less but still he is a very prominent figure and he voices out protesters. concerns
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and. views towards the international press and let's hear what he had to say though at a protest get a frustration from police or not polish the you would use pepper spray and rubber bullets and tear gas fire on activists that's why protest 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 like calling he'll on every way and now is not only related to urging the government to terminate a bit the bill now it's the summer off this content to beijing and hong kong government last week we experienced poll beijing gangs and most ordinary citizen yesterday we experienced poll riot police beaten on peaceful protest or inside railway station know what the probation gangs of all is fostering the interest of
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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 fight lead of hall should not be appointed by beijing need of hong kong should be elected by hollande people. josh along are saying calls for democracy will never stop to say hong kong authorities and ultimately beijing giving into protesters demands. well protesters are not demanding at the moment democracy this is of course the ultimate goal and this is the underlying course that people feel that they have a government that is responsible to beijing but not to themselves but to the immediate demands of the protesters much less going less far they are demanding 1st of all that this extradition bill that has been shelved but not withdrawn ultimately scrapped and they are demanding an investigation into the police
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operations of the past 8 weeks an independent investigation they are demanding that people who have been arrested be freed the. universal suffrage that was the issue in 2014 is of course something people wish for but it's not even a demand that they are making at the moment and it's even less likely that beijing or the hong kong hong kong government is not in a position to do this is really beijing that beijing will give in to this demand beijing wants to keep things under control they are not successful with this i don't know what they're going to make out of this but they're not going to allow universal suffrage i don't think so that is playing 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 campaigning has begun 2 months ahead of afghanistan's presidential election come and afghani is standing for a 2nd term ghani is promising to end the 2 decade long war with the taliban an
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attack coinciding with the start of the campaigning killed at least one person at the offices of dawn is running mate in kabul. and iran's president hassan rouhani has said britain's seizure of an iranian oil tanker violates the international nuclear deal tensions have been high says british forces captured the ship earlier this month on specials smuggling oil to syria. russian opposition leader ali saying a lonely as the. hospitalized after having a severe allergic reaction while in jail and wrongly spokeswoman said she was suffering from red skin and facial swelling the activist is serving a 30 day jail term for calling for mass protests after authorities blocked opposition candidates from taking part in local elections yesterday well over a 1000 demonstrators were arrested trying to rally outside the mayor's office. a
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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 the authorities in flooded near putin's russia fear their dissent could spread. but you know you cannot be indifferent if we don't start with these local moscow elections when will it ever begin russia's a big country and i hope people will see what we're doing. but surely 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 vonnie who had been streaming the demonstration live on the internet they arrested his studio head they also raided internet t.v. station. and ordered its editor in chief to undergo questioning. for now the
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strategy appears to be keep the protestors and their anger against the ruling party contained. today as world hepatitis day and although the wire as is preventable and treatable it's still one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases the most severe id's happen tight as b. and c. kill 1400000 people every year that's more than 18 to work a little scenes of. 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 2030. for more let's bring in jonathan ball professor from molecular biology at the university of nottingham mr ball thanks for joining d.w. have otitis is preventable it's treatable and still shocking numbers of people suffer from it and many don't survive an infection what's holding us back why can't
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we get it under control. there are several faxes come into play and the. elimination strategy of identified 5 if ways that they hope to prevent future problems and the future been caused by scientists particularly if you're right he said have a scientist be and have to see how do scientists we have an effective vaccine so one of the biggest challenges for the w.h.o. is to. ensure that they fascinate particularly young babies preferably hoping to ensure that 90 percent of babies are vaccinated against science is they not move prevents a lot of infections similarly one of the big problems with hepatitis b. and have to see is that these are live bone viruses and they can be transmitted through plane on star needles often in many parts of the needles of really used
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for medical practice is a big challenge is to ensure that sterile needles are always used and also intravenous drug abuse people who inject strips again put themselves at risk of another thread in other elements of the campaign is to ensure that drug abusers have access to clean needles find doing this they hope to prevent a significant number of new infections through this virus that 10 people affected by happened. so that's the 2nd important parts of this huge number of people who aren't that they're infected with hepatitis and this is mainly because of poor access to diagnosis diagnostics so in the western world in germany in the u.k. for example we have good access to tests many of the people who were in fights it on t.v. they may have been exposed securely to things i have time to see. a big challenge
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is to ensure all the increased numbers more people do get tested because again one of the main arteries in the strategy to eliminate viruses is to roll out treatments so ahead of time to see we have incredibly good treatments that can kill more than 90 percent of people who are infected and in the case of hepatitis b. we know that people who carry the virus we can bring the virus under control and that by prevents the development of these areas of the disease viruses coast cirrhosis and liver cancer caused the significant significant number of tests done professor at the. very moment. and before we go quick reminder of the top story we're following for you hong kong police have fired tear gas to disperse crowds blocking the city's center on democracy protesters have been marching in the finds of an official band it's the 2nd day of clashes between crowns and police on the
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