this is g.w. newsline from berlin tonight the 1st fallout from india's move to strip kashmir of its special status pakistan is promising to fight that decision and it's urging world leaders to intervene tensions are rising and fears are growing that this could lead to a military conflict between pakistan and india also coming up tonight beijing warns hong kong protesters that punishment is coming police make mass arrests as ongoing clashes with pro-democracy demonstrators plunge the city into crisis plus

a case of fraud off the pitch former top german football officials are charged with corruption did they bind germany's right to host the 2006 world cup. also on the show tonight the world loses a beloved author the nobel laureate writer toni morrison whose novels exploring african-american identity gave voice to millions has died at the age of $88.00. i'm burnt off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the u.s. and all around the world welcome tonight there are new worries so they political and maybe a military firestorm over kashmir yesterday india's hindu nationalists led government revoked. years special status by repealing article $370.00 of the constitution but

pakistan's prime minister says that he will consider approaching the un security council about the move earlier today pakistan's army said that it would go to any extent necessary to support the contested territory. residents in pakistani controlled kashmir have been making their anger clear that it was in the india says it's revoking article $370.00 of its constitution which gives the region more freedom to make its own laws compared with other indian states in neighboring pakistan politicians have been meeting to discuss their response and action then. they will take action against us and we will respond because it cannot be possible that they attack us and we don't retaliate you know happen next things will be even more aggravated when both of us keep reacting it could lead to a conventional war. conventional waters of. people living in kashmir fear

that india is decision to remove the region special autonomy status could still tensions even further activists they are say they will do whatever it takes to oppose the changes. and this is a question of political existence this is a question. the identity also i don't think that we can think of and we want to fight it out but the indian government shows no signs of backing dying. jammu and kashmir is a part of india and in technical parts. there is no legal no constitutional disputes about. math and left wing activists in india have been protesting against their government's actions but right wing handed nationalists have been celebrating in. the region has long been a source of tension kashmir shoes a border with india and pakistan both claim it is their. territory but only control

parts of it china also claims a section and it's criticized india for stripping the region over it so tony daly has warned to be saying that kashmir is an internal matter both have said they are committed to maintaining peace in the border areas and for more on what's happening over kashmir i'm joined now here at the big table by itself political analyst boris bill could mr brooke it's good to have you on the show. what's what's going on here i mean this special status has been in place for 7 decades right doesn't it and then india has decided to revoke it why now well i think it's the 2nd. of his prime minister modi's an agenda simply put his just want his 2nd term in office and he he wants to implement the b j p agenda of the party is his party's agenda he promised in his new movie to do that or it's a long standing demand of the b j p that the article 370 should be scrapped

and so he's just fulfilling the agenda and the promises. and putting the country on a conflict course with pakistan you know not only of the country i think it's a regional issue we have seen today also a statement by china because china sees itself also involved as a party to this conflict so it's not a yeah it's not a 2 party conflict in a way it's also a 3 party conflict and what happens if pakistan as we heard in the report pakistan may take this to the un security council what will that bring about anything. maybe because it should be debated i mean it's obviously it's a matter it's a concern for international peace i mean there is no doubt about it but i think much more important is what rules the great policies to the united states but also russia china i mean. they have all their own interests and this probably should

have some sway as you said but the rest of the powers russia the united states europe how much influence do they really have done on india at this point. well they have influence on pakistan and the united states in particular when it comes to their i mean the whole regional situation united states needs pakistan right now and order to solve the crisis in afghanistan to get out of afghanistan there is lots of problems. and so india is in a difficult position regionally right now it was always pakistan that was isolated over the last years of decades and maybe now it's the other way around and most of these countries pakistan and india that are nuclear powers if 2 years is that an insurance policy that they will not go to war over this it is not we have seen. numerous crises over the years

mostly because insurgents or terrorists supported by pakistan. were active in india and when is it kashmir do you think do you think they will go to war that we've got about 15 seconds on me do you think this will in the in a military conflict. no i don't think so i think there are so many countries involved because in both they will be able to contain and let's hope let's hope you're exactly or so can we appreciate your insights tonight thank you for. what china has issued a stark warning to pro-democracy activists in hong kong a day after violent clashes and a general strike that paralyzed the territory a government spokesman in beijing says that punishment is coming and that activists should not underestimate the strength of the central government he described the activists as violent criminals and he valid that they would be held accountable on

kongs government also warned that the ongoing demonstrations could threaten the territories prosperity but some protesters they are valid to press on with their fight for democratic reforms earlier we spoke with joshua huang the head of one activist group and he outlined his plans for the weeks ahead. just will continue eason clash captain sun micro it was sent on this course tomorrow consul and lawyer they will have to sign a rally on friday we will gather at hong kong international and we will continue our protests and now is the summer of discontent will continue on through the 1st of october chinese national day. that was the activist joshua long speaking earlier today from hong kong here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the un's refugee agency says a new italian law penalizing migrant rescue ships could stop lives from being saved

on monday it only raised the fine on unauthorized ships entering its waters to 1000000 euros ship captains bringing rescued migrants to italy also face arrest the u.n. said the activities of rescue ships should not be criminal ones a german citizen with turkish roots has reportedly been arrested in the city of antalya german media say the man was visiting family but was detained when he arrived at the airport he's been accused of spreading terrorist propaganda on facebook germany's foreign ministry says it has been informed of the arrest. the united states says it will use every appropriate tool to else venezuelan president nicolas maduro the comments from the white house came as the u.s. ramped up its saying sions on mature and his government the new sanctions are aimed at cutting off foreign money to the venezuelan government. well human rights activists have helped prevent a chinese national from the muslim minority community from being deported back to

china from qatar that after a video of the man pleading for help went viral on social media did abuse reporter soccer is here to bring is this story so tell us how did this all come about as of the video was what saved this person right. can you say if he is a muslim minority from china originally and he's been living in pakistan for the last 20 years he was trying to get to he got as far as the airport there and bust in authorities then decided to deport him but not back to pakistan and back to china because the his travel documents he got his father asked back to coach and he basically you know he didn't want to go to beijing he feared for his life he said prisons or to be put in an internment camp and so he decided to record this video from south and. let's have a quick look at the video. as

. well so this video ended up going viral and because of the international attention ed got his dissertation from qatar on woods to beijing was postponed he was stranded there basically for a few days while his future was decided on this this week and he fears for his life if he has to go back to china yet so there we go muslim minority community they have been the target of a crackdown by just beijing for quite a while now the u.n. estimates that as many as a 1000000 people have been put in these so-called reeducation census. beijing says this is basically a voluntary vocational training camp. but investigation showed that people are not

there voluntarily they're being arbitrarily detained and these these comes on my presence you cannot just come and go as your life. they've been they've even been labeled concentration camps now this video use of the video was initially picked up by a wave of rights activist by the name of iceland had a yacht we talked to him earlier today. and he told us by use of wanted to leave pakistan in the 1st place according to him we have been rounded up by pakistani authorities to be sent back to china price it. so he decided to make the boldly and make his way to europe. now we can verify verify these claims but it is worth noting the pakistan is part of a group of muslim minority country muslim majority countries rather that have come out in support of beijing when it comes to their treatment of muslims and may sickly. dismissing claims that that we can muslims are being held against their

will so is there a happy ending the war there is. just a few hours ago. a son had a yacht he tweeted that the use of is now on his way out of qatar. towards freedom. more details once and so we don't know where it's going well but we do so there's a picture of it on the plane and just after this tweet there was another tweet saying that he is on his way to washington d.c. so for now at least he will be staying in america going to the u.s. while interesting all right thank you very much fascinating story thank you. well now to what you could describe as 5 g. in 0 g. a new satellite system known as the space data highway is on its way in space now a rocket carrying the satellite system blasted off from the european space port in fridge schiano earlier today the satellites are equipped with ultra fast laser technology they'll help emergency services during disaster situations by

transferring data images of any point on the earth in almost real time. flying at an altitude of 36000 kilometers the really satellite has a view of large parts of the earth's surface the system runs around the clock and some of the satellites orbit the globe with even greater trajectories the igi r s c is intended to improve and accelerate data transmission from space by using a so-called laser communication terminal it can receive data from earth observation satellites through a laser link then it mediately forwards the data to the ground station the system is $100.00 times faster than high speed internet before the actual data is that the n.t. was written you wrote it took several hours and all we did it i said we could come to stone to turn in 20 minutes maybe i really needed a to v.

i need to respect look directly to the ground. during floods and other disasters swift access to satellite data is crucial radar satellites can see through clouds. they're able to capture the extent of floods over a wide area. emergency support needs this information as quickly as possible they can then determine the location of the greatest damage and how to get to affected areas. earth observation satellites orbit the globe every 90 minutes but they can only send data to earth for 10 minutes at a time the new laser technology extends the transmission time and users can obtain data more quickly there are other advantages this is tim is useful for weather

services accurate forecasts rely on huge amounts of data from around the world. the 80 or a c. satellite works like a laser node in space a 2nd node is already in place sunny telecommunications satellite together they form the basis for europe's space data highway. ultimate goal will of course be to achieve global coverage so the become transmit imagery that is taken anywhere in the world to europe within a real time meaning almost immediately. at the beginning of the next decade a 3rd satellite e.g. our as d. is planned to be stationed over asia after its installation the system will cover most of the globe a 4th satellite is already in the works. this is exciting stuff joining me now is my tia's months again but he is i guess you could say part of the brains

behind this new technology it's good to have you might see us on this show i described this satellite system at the beginning of the report as almost like 5 g. technology in 0 g. would you agree is it something like that when we're talking about the speed of data transmission except i would say it's a perfect fit because it's like so space to 5 we bring laser com which is an intercept a lightning. distance off 80000 kilometers that is the maximum what you need for geo geo connectivity and on this it's a data highway 1.8 you got it you can compare it restores 5 out to your home yeah i mean it's amazing and you know my producer was asking don't we already have this type this type of fast speed data transmission if you use google maps for example they can tell you if there is a problem with a road that you need to take

a different route but it's not as fast it's not real time transmission is it i mean we're talking about with with this technology that you've been working on this is transmission that happens at the speed what of life almost right. yes that one is a speed of light but in a combination with the data released. that is that makes is a really different that's a game changer normally you have solution data and you have to wait for the last ation now you can uplink that to opposition on the geostationary orbit and you have sent 15 minutes you aren't you are sites report your situation a report which is needed for rescue teams to to prevent pollutions to to give. a right. to get disaster management to the right if you have a forest fire are all the disasters which are also actually now and with that now

the real time is of you real a real game changer 15 minutes from the center are where ever i sense analysis and that's that is the sentinel is the name of the off the satellites in all its wherever they are it's fascinating is this a big win for european technology and mean are we seeing european technology. the americans the chinese use that to me is in the game when it comes to data transmission another space. yeah absolutely there's a race of course. they don't relay systems are coming in the whole u.s. is doing that we see. the japanese checks but they are i must say a little bit behind what europe is doing we are doing technology here with the help of german space agency we developed as this terminal and we follow me

one cells and links on months and this instead yes and that's amazing that europe acknowledge the advantage yeah well i would say congratulations are in order for you and your team ideas once again by joining us tonight helping us understand the satellite system with technology 5 g. in 0 g. mathias thank you very much thanks so much for this one tonight the u.s. and the world are mourning the loss of a literary prize in the year author toni morrison has died at the age of 88 after a short illness she was the 1st african-american to win the nobel prize for literature her novels present and unflinching portrayal of the african-american experience in the u.s. with a strong focus on the lives of black women greg maddux solution or a pinnacle in toni morrison's career the 1st african american nobel literature laureate receiving the presidential award of freedom from america's 1st african-american president barack obama in 2012.

her path to success was started with obstacles that she overcame with defiant inspired by her grandfather as she remembered in a documentary the pieces i am released earlier this year. my grandfather. and it was illegal in his life to. out of. that word. before becoming a writer morrison made her way up the male dominated world of new york publishing always fearless she soon realized that she and not the old white males around her was the smartest person in the room i was more interesting than. she turned the status quo of white perception on its head when talk show host dick cavett asked her a provocative question. i prefer. well

i'm tired of people asking the question. later oprah winfrey's book club helped toni morrison become a household name her novels such as the bluest eye song of solomon and beloved went beyond bestseller status they contributed to a shift in african-american storytelling a style that embraced ruthless honesty. toni morrison empowered countless readers and will be remembered as a force of nature in the world of literature and beyond. ards board's news now and there's news that swiss authorities have charged 4 people in relation to germany's bid to host the 2006 football world cup to talk about that i'm joined here by all over movie from. some means of this is the question right did german football of visuals buy the right to host the world cup this is the question that it's all kind of coming around but just with regards to today's revelations that some of the biggest figures engine in football over the last couple of decades

involved in this you know you've got to form a german football association presidents have been challenged to vulcan is back and . what they've been charged with is fraudulent misleading a supervisory body for the 2006 world cup organizing committee. the word fraud in the obviously is that some alarm bells ringing right funds beckoned as well as another who's allegedly heavily heavily involved as usual all of this of course we really are talking about the big cheeses in german football not to explain a little bit more about these charges and where they come from with a better poll let's take a look at that right now. the men behind germany's wildly successful hosting of the 2006 world cup are in trouble on tuesday the swiss attorney general's office brought charges against former german football association president. and former general secretary horst r. schmidt the 3 stand accused of falsely claiming

a payment of $6700000.00 euros from the german f.a. to fever was depression lee finance a world cup gala an event that never took place in 2002 then world cup organizing committee boss france beckenbauer received 6700000 euros from entrepreneur robert louis dreyfus back in bauer then transferred this money to former qatari official mohamed bin hammam who has since been suspended for life due to corruption the central question of why bin hammam received the money is still unclear to investigators in 2005 the d.f.t. then transferred 6700000 euros defeat supposedly for the 2006 world cup kickoff gala but then transferred the money directly to louis dreyfus swiss authorities are investigating france beckenbauer in a separate case on account of his current state of health. or were charged along with the others and then failed to appear it could in danger the entire case. and

the clock is ticking. commuters are under time pressure there are only 8 months left under the statute of limitations it's high time charges are filed. now swiss justice has to hurry to reach a verdict or the fraud charges will have to be dropped. over let's look at this we've got from spoken by our in the reportedly paid 6700000 euros to could tare football executive mohamed bin. is there any speculation over what that money or their payment was supposed to be for there's always speculation in football over and this is no different i mean there are 2 main theories about what that money was used for and i should stress that this is speculation this is not anything that's been proven in court but the one theory is that this money was used to buy votes jenny to host the 2006 world cup mohamed bin hammam let's not forget was an executive committee member at the time the executive committee was

the body that decided who would host the world cup and of course germany did end up hosting the 2006 just in the i mean. i think any number 1st would be asking why was that can borrow or even paying that kind of money to someone you could start to begin to you know like you said the speculation how big of an issue is this going to become for german soccer well i think it's huge not just for her as well but germany as a whole because you've got to remember that the 2006 world cup was not just a sports event that germany happened to host it was a real cultural moment that everybody said sorry much about where modern germany was in the world and where it still is today you know about multiculturalism here diversity about national pride about the way that gender is to seen internationally as well and so any kind of tarnish of that memory and he kind of any anything that brings down the reputation of it is going to affect the way that people remember and that is a very sad thing it's a horrible thought to think that you were almost living a lie if you will to prove that it was bald or over think you. well you're watching

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