this is you know when he was lying from berlin on a knife edge clashes erupt at hong kong airport as pro-democracy protesters haul flights for a 2nd consecutive day police used pepper spray in baton strang to force their way into the building and hong kong chief executive carrie alam warns that the city could be on a path of no return also coming up conservationists see it is nothing short of a planetary emergency a new study shows the populations of forced welling's wildlife has been cut in half

since 1970 it comes as the u.s. and brazil loosen their environmental protections plus on the anniversary of the building of the berlin wall a firsthand account of escaping communist east germany slaughter the guardian angel that bird i knew there were alarms regarded as in the twilight that i saw a fin a piece of wire stretched from bridge pose to bridge posed for a touched it would have gone off and they would have immediately fired shots. of the. way a hawk thank you so much for your company everyone chaotic scenes have unfolded at hong kong's international airport where dozens of riot police clashed with pro-democracy demonstrators thousands of protesters were turned to the airport for a 2nd day in a. ro causing all the parts of flights to be canceled and hong kong's chief

executive warrant protesters that the city is on a path of no return i it's shutdown day 2 i was on this serious anger from protesters towards the police i with protesters clearly losing their cool i. was demonstrators claim that this man was an undercover policeman i was and shortly afterwards he's attacked i was eventually medics secure his release. i was aware of the protests continue to apologize to frustrated travelers was

i was right it was no i was i carry lamb hong kong's leader is fearing or threatening the worst. hong kong society has become insecure unstable and violent no matter who's perpetrating violence it will push hong kong down a path of no return but quite low it will put hong kong society in a very anxious and dangerous situation like him. she was then harangued by journalists who want to know whether she's following beijing's orders speaking to d.w. news pro-democracy activist joshua one thinks beijing won't send in the people's liberation army standing you know into a hall call my just reached out and that made whole call it calling me at it would not only trick at this quantity of hong kong people but also record it with haiku.

this buy because does stock market financial market life there was cracked when p.l.o. a were sent through a hall called protest sold all of them are it's crystal clear now well what we do is pay attention to all call they should not let hong kong people walk a little. but images from across the border suggest a showdown a visible military buildup just 30 kilometers away over the border in stands in the question now is is this just the threat from beijing or will the chinese military actually move in. and joining me now here on the set is hong kong pro-democracy activist karen good to have you here with us. once more we just saw of course he has become the face of this very young a protest movement he does not seem to think that china mainland china will give the order to intervene directly now in hong kong is he under

estimating beijing's willingness to restore public order. i don't know if he is under estimated but i'm personally i'm not so sure like him that beijing will not send and trade to hong kong but i agree with him that if china really is sending an al need to hong kong it will ruin the reputation of hong kong as a free market and also it won't just a fact economy of china as the also the woes economy right it's a bad bad luck were they to make that step now we have heard about reports of forces being built up along the border if china does decide to intervene how much of a game changer with that be i mean it is it would definitely be a tipping point but who would protect the protesters in. hong kong i can

say who will protect the protests in hong kong there is a common understanding in mountain protested that if the chinese is really sending an army to hong kong that they would not stay on the street because we really don't want to get hurt or anyone to life and. yesterday after the protests. president. he came and announced the news conference and turned to and say that the government of hong kong offer a should be responsible to that and should talk with the protesters so i think the only one who can really solve the problem is the hong kong government well let's talk about the hong kong government precisely the executive. the chief executive or of hong kong carrie lam she keeping a very low profile but she reappeared today and she warned that the city is on a path that is territory should say is on a path of no return that sounds like

a threat frankly demonstrator they use this word as well 7 they're saying that for the demonstrators it is also a point of no return because remember that in turn to 14 after the umbrella movement there many protests said they don't trust democracy and images don't trust the government system and also any show for movement anymore so now this time is more intense than the one in 2014 so they demonstrated they understand as well if the demands are not match by the government it will be a very depressed time for the whole society because this is of course a different the difficulty trust has been lost and you know can we store that trust . kim hong kong how much more can hong kong take of

the unrest. well this is really hard to tell but i'll say that the demonstrators they are really determined that the government should reply to denounce them as fareed is because now we really know that the whole problem is created because of the unjust system so i think the protests will still go on for a while and it will go on until kerry leaves i think until the demands a match until their demands are met karin chong hong kong pro-democracy activist always good to have you thank you thanks. well turn our attention now to the environment and the world wide fund for nature says an assessment of forest biodiversity shows that wildlife populations have fallen by more than half in the last 50 years while the greatest losses took place in tropical forests like the amazon basin where the government president also marrow is encouraging forest

clearing for agriculture but forests around the world are under threat. the forests of borneo vital habitat for the right hand are under growing threat they're shrinking rapidly as farmers burn down trees to make way for palm oil plantations that leaves less for the rugged towns to eat the same goes for the java rhinoceros in indonesia and the wild elephants of central africa the world wide fund for nature is sounding the alarm. divison the most important step to take is an immediate holds to the destruction of the forest for the cultural use decides that means we need a comprehensive approach to protect forests or effects the around the wall said and to fund more responsibly and forests are being stripped of high value trees for sale as workers build roads and dams to convert the land for profit according to

the world wide fund for nature forest wildlife populations have been reduced by half since 1970 percent amazon rain forest is especially hard hit. we have extreme difficulties in brazil even though the amazon was actually a success story for a while and that doesn't seem to be the case anymore but there's still a chance to make progress in other countries. besides deforestation poaching and the climate crisis are exacerbating the devastation and veyron mental activists are urging more leaders to get involved. when i bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. spanish. star placido domingo has been accused of sexual misconduct 9 women have told the associated press news agency that they were sexually harassed over a period of decades well the los angeles opera where he is the general director says it will open an investigation to me though says the allegations are in

accurate. at least senate has put off setting a date for a no confidence vote in the government's deputy prime minister might they also being through the coalition government into chaos when he demanded snap elections selvi any set the differences between his far right likud party and its coalition partners were just too great. in greece hundreds of emergency workers are battling wildfires helicopters and planes dropping water have been fighting a belief on the island of a.v.r. north of athens the country has asked for international help and the prime minister has cut short his vacation to deal with emergency. you know washington we knew still to come. the worst king children of bolivia the can work legally from the age of 10 that they can only dream of going to school.

that story in just a moment but 1st to over here in europe soldiers in portugal are driving fuel tankers to distribute gas because of an open ended driver strike over pay which has entered its 2nd day while police officers were also making deliveries as close to $500.00 of the country's $3000.00 gas stations were reported to be dry the government has now imposed few rationing. fully laden and under police protection the convoy leaves the warehouse in lisbon this is how the poty days government has been trying to guarantee. a minimum amount of fuel is available for the country's drivers reluctantly the picket lines allow them through. u.s. . support to go i think the strike gives the impression to people abroad that portugal does not respect labor rights. if this these people are fighting for their

rights in the country the government and the companies are doing their best to limit the exercising of those rights. while the taxi drivers work up to 17 hours a day way in an effort to change that they're protesting for the 2nd time and for us during the strike fuel has been rationed pumping stations and special legal measures have been brought in to force drivers to deliver the minimum supplies after the government on monday complained refineries weren't doing enough. course to do scoop but requirement that we notice that particularly in the afternoon shift the unions that cause the strike and the work is involved in not complying with the minimum services to terminate it i mean for example there was not one single supply seems port refinery we were served at the southern region of the country singe said with the government to sports steve oakley that's the school to police. more than

14 tankers have left the scenes for finery driven by soldiers. with no end date set for the strike portuguese drivers are having to be conservative at the pumps where the pumps aren't already running dry. now to bolivia where 5 years ago parliament made it legal for children to work from the age of 10 that's the world's lowest minimum age for child labor children there can work legally for themselves or their families and once they have 12 they can work for others it's estimated that there are around 850000. child laborers. have no modeling these 4 children are singing to honor the dead. but not because the deceased is a loved one. they're doing it for money. the fans who at

the end they chant our father. is that it was actually for god. and kevin this cemetery is their place of employment they're hired to sing for the relatives of the dearly departed. they receive 20 bolivian each time worth about 2 and a half euro's that's a lot of money for children who are growing up without a father. with his. 10 year old kevin longs to buy a football but he has to spend his earnings on medical treatments for his mother who's ill. it's strange working in a cemetery that drowning katzenbach in docs all around everywhere in. the city. these children who come every day after school are known as the graveyard kids every 4th child in bolivia has some kind of job that's about 100000 working children. starting at 10 every night the

15 year old energy buys cigarettes at a kiosk and resells them for any profit he can manage. but. let's just say for years this interview when i was kid you give us have to work so i can bring money home that's why i try to sell a lot sleep but that is an athlete and he works in a pub district. 5 days a week he makes his way through run down bars and clubs selling cigarettes for $0.25 each. business is always sluggish at 1st. then more profitable as the night progresses. please believe me when clients are seated it's easy for anybody to make a sale. but he has to keep a watchful eye. out for the pleasure in the districts there are lots of criminal

gangs and they are the biggest threat for me as i'm. not far from andy is christiane all of 10 years old he's collecting garbage because he wants a better life. from them listen i want to buy new shoes. and go to school. like other working children here christiane belongs to a bolivian child laborers union 5 years ago it pushed through a demand to allow miners to work legally starting at age 10. youngsters like energy and christiane say they have more rights now and they're hoping for bigger opportunities. i want my own business house and the car i'd like to be an important person. responsible. in. the singing graveyard children say the only way to support their desperately poor

families is by working. i mean. they pay us 10 to 20 bolivia for every prayer sometimes 100 because i'm so young so i'm going to talk that's really 12 year olds a lot of money for working bolivian children. was. now 58 years ago today work began on the christie construction of what would become the berlin wall the barrier was intended to stop people from leaving the communists is germany to west berlin and west germany the wall turned west berlin into an island that was surrounded by communists territory while the enclave was now surrounded by more than a 150 kilometers of massive fortifications it was berlin remained a magnet for those wanting to escape east germany at least $136.00 people were

killed trying to get across the berlin wall in total more than $600.00 people were killed trying to flee is germany their role in wall street for 28 years until 1989 when a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the frontier and the end of communism in central and eastern europe during that time dissidents and activists in east and west germany helped smuggle thousands of people across the inner german border and our reporter chris enoch caught up with one of them. the best thing about jail to says was being left out of the cell once a day to walk around inside a large why i came as a young man he was held for months in a detention center run by the east german secret police the stasi for trying to flee the country and aiding others in their attempts to escape. your music of his movie homeland so they didn't abuse us physically they called it

a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind just down through hyper control isolation this information on the cusp of the worst 11 months of my life here after a while if you start to long to be sentenced. crichton never accepted life under the east german regime and tried to flee for the 1st time by train when he was just 18 he was arrested and put behind bars when building began on the berlin wall on the 13th of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on the center as it was the other woman as a young person at some point you have to ask yourself how long am i going to play this raid have how long can i take it if you were doing i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little initial this is a long as you're still studying you had to get all of this crap in every essay there had to be a commitment to socialism and if you needed good marks you just wrote that rubbish down. a short time later attempted to escape again. he swam

across a border river on the edge of berlin and made it to freedom. he was in the water for 4 hours before he finally managed to get through a barbed wire fence and on to the shore on the western side on the eastern side he would have been shot. at the company's office let's not i had a guardian angel that night i knew there were alarms of the air it was in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge opposed to bridge post if i touched it he would have gone off and they would have immediately fired shots. for the force of. dozens of people died in this way along the berlin wall it's still not clear just how many the regime ruthlessly punished anyone who tried to flee. nevertheless wish to continue to help more than 30 people escape by smuggling them into west germany in the boot of his car he was caught again and spent 5 years in prison

before he was pushed out by the west german government the 71 year old now gives tours in his former prison he thinks young people should learn that east germany was a totalitarian state. as you will mention if you can see that young people are aware and interested that's why i do this so it was you out of a sense of the conviction will be back when it will always be like that before. that stealing us help overcome the brutality of the stasi now he's able to tell a story as one of those who paid a price for wanting freedom. and we say in berlin or because unlike most other european capitals berlin has never been a domestic footballing powerhouse but this season for the 1st time in over 40 years their german capital will be represented by 2 different teams in the top flight headed to and west berlin are joined in the bundesliga for the 1st time ever by

rivals only on the after the east berlin side were promoted by a playoff. it's been a summer of ecstasy for. the arrival of top flight football at the outer 1st i means that 2 historic capital city darby's are on the horizon. has to be there with both clubs in the 1st league and also real proud of this because we can play against their b.c. believe that big big derby and that's what we look for this season to new and rising in the east means that hetta have a challenger for the capital city crown it's the climax of an unlikely success story. journey to the bundesliga has been a long and arduous 120 years ago the club was on the brink of bankruptcy and extinction now they've got a fresh new renovated stadium plans to expand it even further and have just become the 1st club from the old east german leagues to make it to the bundesliga. in 2009

but out west ham have long been at home in the upper reaches of german football they are accustomed to having the blues league or to themselves this year they've got company for my hats a star and current general manager. knows that the rise of heads as rivals puts plenty of pressure on his club it will be of course a lot of pressure in the city like the city. hatter as the more established side have the most to lose this year underdogs are out to cause an upset all eyes will be on bowling for the east west capital city darby with the season about to start the countdown is already on when you will host hatter here and that's a 1st i in november it will be the 1st time ever that these 2 sides meet in the german topflight it's a historic occasion for the german capital and whatever's going on in the

bundesliga table it will be a massive footballing occasion for both teams leanings bragging rights are on the line. and the now in a world designed for right handers left handers can sometimes struggle every day or roughly 10 percent of the world's population there grapples with gadgets that are designed for the right handed majority international left hander's day is designed to raise awareness of these everyday annoyances and to celebrate some famous lefties. a disproportionate number of recent us presidents have been left handed 7 out of the last 15 of use their left hand including barack obama that's helped fuel a theory that left handed people make exceptional leaders. the roman emperor type derrius is one of the 1st left hand is ever recorded his biographer said

he used his left hand more readily and with more force than his right who could bore a fresh sound apple through with his finger because angela ranks high list of left handed although historical accounts reveal he trained himself to become right handed he still uses life a sculpture his which a quiet strength. left handed musicians feature the likes of beethoven and to. work through the more recently legendary guitarist jimi hendrix to a. in the past researches have suggested left up a wider scope of thinking to explain the high number of left handed nobel prize winners including albert einstein and physicist marie curie to name just hit. the left handed out to include stars such as charlie chaplin and angelina jolie. i mean sport tennis player martina navratilova is one of

a host of top athletes to we'll done left hands to their advantage i left handedness also runs in the british royal family with queen elizabeth a mother and son prince charles grandson prince william all being left handed suggesting it could be genetic. ari thanks so much for spending a part of your day with us.

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