bring on the brink for a 2nd straight day defiance pro-democracy demonstrators shut down one of asia's busiest airports jamming terminals and leaving passengers stranded all the dramatic sound off pitches protesters against riot police in ever more violent confrontations with the world's eyes fixed on hong kong the people are bracing for a critical showdown with beijing the mainland points out it has troops there by and they're ready to move in at a moment's notice on the rock this is a day. to use a couple of the old laws that's certainly true and you're going to see some building i mean i want to make. could you also about resources across through various you have not answered my question user is very to the question. long society has become unsafe and unstable

violence no matter what the cause is putting hong kong on a route of no return when i. understand the rights of the not. the 1st of the year to come or think you think it's possible to travel and. also on the day it was on august 13th 58 years ago when the 1st briggs and mortar were laid that would become the berlin wall you hear from one man jailed for trying to escape he eventually made it across to west berlin and helped dozens of others do the same i had a guardian angel that night i knew there were alarms at the bridge he was in the twilight and i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post a bridge post if i had touched it he would have gone off and they would have immediately fired shots.

we start the day in hong kong while that territory remains in the grip of its worst crisis since the territory was handed back to china by britain 22 years ago her democracy protests is again coming out in huge numbers flooding hunk kong international airport 8 2nd day in a row forcing flights to be cancelled and paralyzing operations riot police briefly clash with protesters united nations has called on law enforcement in the territory to show restraint mainland china takes a different view and has condemned the un for meddling in what it describes as a domestic issue meanwhile chinese state and social media posted video for all to see security forces gathering across the border from hong kong all the year program democracy of protests have gained in momentum over 2 and a half months now and d.-w.

new spoke earlier with one of the lead activists joshua walk. home call activists. with out with the mob to call them on produce brutality 1st government to terminate extradition bill and our quest for free in action before the police into the airport hong kong activists just stared at airport peacefully without any clash with those police unfortunately when police. guns and pepper spray and tried to point to his people the clash happened but i just want to let the world to know that why people in hong kong gather at the airport because we hope to let the world to know that home call such an international financial center already tries fall into a polish state we know that is really a long term and difficult battle or david versus goliath all busy call is similar as is burning in the last century under rule but we will never give up we are just asking border. on the matter right elected government all right so want to bring in

now it's in the pringle of the school of oriental and african studies in a london so as he is also the editor of the china quarterly a scholarly publication covering contemporary china a very good day so remarkable scenes playing out in hong kong today protests is clearly not ready to surrender yet i mean we just heard from the joshua wang saying this will be a long and difficult battle and we are not going to back down. can they actually win this battle well i think i think good into you by the way i think there is some there is you know despite the violence despite the tension i think there is still room for in the negotiation when at least one of the months of protests is putting forward is is just who said just now there were time just now rather there are a fight there are 5 to months full replay of negotiable i categorize nation of the

specific protests the release of arrested protests is an independent inquiry into the policing the demonstrations which is which seems that the united united nations office for human rights would probably be behind this well. there is room for maneuver on the snow while the long term universal suffrage remains probably unknown realizable going to be in said he in the short term. sincere and genuine dialogue with the other demands put forward by the protests this may lay the grahams right on top of the the which are routine extradition don't fall for full progress on that amount as well so the spots are and so i think yes is there is still room for for compromise and for the nurses to achieve at least at arms. all eyes are on beijing because it doesn't seem like beijing is really in the

mood for compromise i mean it just released that video that we aired today of army drills that are taking place just right across the border from hong kong that is kind of an implied threat there do you foresee a possibility that mainland china might actually decide to send in troops. well i think it's more likely today that it was a month ago and those who seem from the the spokesman for the hong kong and macau affairs office in hong kong the categorize ation that they had arrested has has gradually become more serious and in beijing is how it is from from. and today they are why you know from from that office the spokesperson there has even referred to refer to it in some sort of signs of terrorism in the or in the india and i think this is something not to be taken lightly the presence of the people's own place

over the bodhran shouldn't judge which you which you just referred to a 1000 leads a psychological pressure. will do to to to bring to protest just to give up on on that amounts but at the same time i would say that it is beijing's perception of the chaos in hong kong that is more important than the presence of the p.a. the peoples are in place during exercises and should. there are real signs you saw today that that perception is hardening with with the reform reference to science that terror terrorism. there is a sign it's that that because it has now become basically a test of wills hasn't it i mean the stakes could of course not be higher for both sides of this issue because what's up for sake is the future of hong kong so i under the leadership of using pain can hong kong retain its very

unique position. of the i agree with you i think the stakes are high. and there is no doubt that if banking books implement what we call an infrastructure which our interest strategy which would imply troops also need to people's own place that would have been devastating short term consequences for hong kong but also for the mainland as well and i'm particularly for banking's long term goal of unifying unifying the main runway with taiwan. which hong kong's system one country 2 systems on comes formulation of one country 2 systems. is was was until quite recently seen seen as a model for possible reunification the concept is now in texas where the hong kong can retain its identity i think that is possibly or it is not the cool oh oh oh oh this oh yes this this under unrest this was on vacation and we're seeing happening

mr goh i want to take us now to the embattled hong kong chief executive carry a lamb because she's made keeping a low profile but she made an appearance earlier today let's take a listen to add a bit of a theory to sing us a conference and a question of whether miss lamb is actually acting independently from beijing will pick up the conversation on the other side of it. and what he told all say no more than anything until one could you want to see that it's called think what it is there is. but. you will recall that kind of made me feel like you know a place in the west. to have the whole. the. be. the closest to the beach and i think the whole place. and i continue to.

work your piece be. quick i. was told the story it is not quite on my list to concentrate on these questions not been focusing at least money. but separate all this is an executive who is under extreme duress she's being challenge she can't answer anything is miscarry lamb a lame duck at this stage and is the real power just with beijing. well i mean i think that the atmosphere in the press conference you just played is really a testament to the profound crisis that hong kong is in now where the carrier has as the reporters are offering house the authority to entirely withdraw the extradition bill i don't know the answer to that however i do know that the

majority of home compete will see carry lymes government and indeed most almost all the governments of the various chief executives have disapproved on constance and i think $97.00 was more or less puppets of beijing and the states this sentiment has been fuelled by traumatic protests at various times against the security bill in 2003 the national curriculum and in 2009 that the writing of the timetable to it universal suffrage that led to the umbrella movement and now thinks the extradition so i think that if that is the pathetic perception that it's not so much that kerry land has become a lame duck it's more that she was never anything else and i think her mishandling of the extradition bill is not is not a testament necessarily too late to this if i can say but rather too. serious

political mismanagement. of all. of the introductory call in a line then that thank you so very much tempering is with the school of oriental and african studies and also the editor of the china quarterly thank you so much for wayne's or. and now some shocking news about our vironment the world life wildlife rather fund says an assessment of forest biodiversity shows that wildlife populations have fallen by more than half in the last 50 years all the greatest losses took place in tropical forests like the amazon basin where the new government there is encouraging the clearing of tree of trees for agricultural agriculture but forests are losing ground around the world. the 4th of borneo vital habitat for the irani tank 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 right times to eat the same goes for the java rhinoceros in intonation 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 or affect the around the wall said and to farm more responsibly but that's often forests are being stripped of high value trees for sale as workers build roads and downs 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. get involved. 58 years ago today work began to build the berlin wall the barrier was intended to keep people in the communist is germany and stop them from fleeing to the free west of the country all the while turned west berlin into an island in the midst of communist territory as you can see behind me well we were surrounded by more than 150 kilometers of massive fortifications at least 136 people were killed trying to get across the berlin wall but some $5000.00 did make it out the berlin wall stood for 28 years and

a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that also mentally led to the opening of the frontier in 1989 which also marked the end of communism in central and eastern europe now while the berlin wall stood firm escape attempts were often met with live gunfire but the desperation for some was so great the need to try it was overpowering a reporter christian a christian or brings us one man's harrowing tale. the best thing about jail which to says was being let out of a cell once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage 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 dismissal and 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 because been the worst 11 months of my life here after a while if you start too long to be sentenced. christa 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 a pheasant 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 or do i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little initials who 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. this one

across the 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 bomb twice fence and on to the shore on the western side on the eastern side he would have been shot. the cotton is off the food supply had a guardian angel that night i knew there were alarms regarded as in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post to bridge post if i had touched it he would have gone off and they would have immediately fired shots. at 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 trying 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 shot by the west german government the 71 year old now gives to us 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 the young people are aware and interested that's why i do this it's good to see out of a sense of the conviction of the bike will always be like that before. back stealing us help tot mom 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. are a jar and now at sears much to our pleasure by catching has a how or if i'm a resident activist in east germany and you can see her right here behind me she helped start the so-called monday demonstrations in the eastern city of life's city in the words on the side that you see the banner that she's holding up is for an

open country with free people so good to have you here was captured on this fateful day because it is so hard from this vantage points today to think about how this country not so long ago was split basically and the people were split 4 was it like to live in east germany. so the meaning of this day for me is just that 16000000 people were just put in a state prison if you would say so and they were even kind of told the government told them oh you are now living in the better piet of germany and so we put tech to this offense so how cynical is sad to to build even a fence that to tell them you live in the better part of the germany but don't escape nonetheless some people were so desperate that they attempted to flee

across under above risking their very lives talk to us about that sense of desperation that you're so desperate that you're willing to risk your life just to get out. yes so for me it's also the memory today the remembrance for all the people they ought to be lost their life by trying to escape so for me as i grew up the wall was already there and i remember that the siblings from my grandmother came over for her birthday party and they came over from mr chairman e. and i i do remember as a kid that i wondered oh why i'm not able to see where they live how they live what their homes look like and i was asking my mom and i said oh do you ever go to see their plays and my mom just said no we would never go to see them plays

and my grandmother just said oh please can you make the go stop that question because it just brings trouble waved. and i i want to mention that i think we just aired a little bit before while you were very evocatively of describing what it was like to live in east germany we're showing some video from a project that digitally constructed the wall to offer a more 3 dimensional weight of this one here it is yes. my question to you is this the wall work did it she what it set out to achieve no not for me so because since i was a child i started to ask question and. if if there was one phrase i really didn't like her still don't like if when people would say oh that's how things are we just can't we cannot change it and it never light and i say

was. a teenage heir i could see that there was so many laws so just the one lie that my mom and all her friends they didn't go to the elections and i could count so but still in the newspaper they would tell us that 99 percent of the citizens would vote for the government and i didn't know that's not true in conclusion fact and what's so interesting about you is that you did not attempt to escape and you also were not resigned like maybe some of your relatives were by what the situation was you decided that you wanted to change the system from within . how. for me. i also felt of the stubbornly that's also my country i'm born here and so maybe it is not true maybe we can change it and if we go to the streets with

a message like for an open country risk free people it would show people that we are not criminals like the government would tell people we are. genuinely just want to be free and to half a choice and to have a voice and to decide what we want to do with our lives chancer i would love to speak so much longer with you about your experiences and hopefully we'll get the opportunity again for thank you so much for lifting some of the veil and also sharing some of the experiences of what happened on that fateful day and what it was like after the wall where erected so happy to have you here thanks lately she is. now in a world designed for right handers the struggles fazed by a left handers are very real her own releases there's a cumbersome can opener is about 10 percent of us grapple with gadgets meant for

the right 10 the majority and international left handed there's a handers day i should say today is meant to focus on the struggles and celebrate famous lefties through the ages. i 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 leader of. the roman empire type arius is one of the 1st left tom does 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 ranks high a list of left hand is all the 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 fun beethoven and

the is. no more recently legendary guitarist jimi hendrix. in the past researches have suggested left hand as are capable of 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 2. that just makes you want to become left handed that's it for the day but the conversation continues online your friends on twitter either editor of news or you can follow me at my handle at her rock still get outside the day i'll be back tomorrow for another look at the day.

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