the but. this is the w.'s line from berlin more tear gas on the streets of hong kong police fire multiple rounds of gas of dispersed pro-democracy demonstrators following the violence that broke out at the airport sit in on shoes they china reacted furiously to what it calls terrorists like attacks on its citizens by protesters also coming up to one year on the people of genoa remember those who died when a road bridge collapsed a technical report reveals that parts of the marandi bridge were not maintained to 25 years and to claim it to activists and credit unbirthday to set sail for new

york city to attend the u.n. climate summit conditions that all will be basic but going by boat will keep her carbon footprint small. it's great to have you along everyone there's been more tear gas in hong kong as hundreds of protesters gathered outside a police station in yet another violent clash in the territory pro-democracy demonstrators were marching through a residential district the latest clash follows 2 days of mass protests at hong kong's international airport that at times turned violent and canceled all flights while the airport has in the meantime reopened and flights have resumed. as hong

kong affairs office has condemned yesterday's violence calling it terrorist like a ramp up in rhetoric during the territory's a long summer of unrest. from kill stick out hong kong international starting to resemble an airport once again this morning passengers on the move departure boards no longer a sea of red cancellations the signs of the crippling protest still visible on disgruntled travelers to. the protesters but at the end of the day we're going to stop the blind protesters because we're the ones caught in the middle of the sandwich. and you know arm already 2 days late getting to where i'm going to be. that's costing me money the airport authority was not visible and all the counters were simply closed all gone you closed the condos. hours earlier riot police clashed with protesters a mob cornered one officer snatching his box on. the floor he

drew his gun remarkably no one was killed. elsewhere the captured this man believed to be an undercover policeman. he was kicked and beaten eventually medics wheeled him to safety. council authority said the violence among to to torture knowledge a number of protesters were surrounding and attacking police officers and vehicles some were even pointing laser beams and the negotiation carter officer who was trying to defuse the situation and help extricate the injured visitors. it will cause if you order it seems threatening the safety of everyone on site now though concerns of a much bigger conflict these images appear to show chinese military build up in a stadium just over the border in. not consistent with mainland media report

and raises the specter of an unprecedented confrontation on the streets of hong kong. and cv kong has been at the international airport throughout the day and describe what it was like. here thought to tighten up security measures off the chaos over the past 2 days checkpoints are set up at the entrance of the terminal to prevent anyone with the warning from entering the national level the authority was also around it and injunction order from the courts to deter any further disruption to the airports meanwhile those was still stay here to demo space they want to we came to sympathy and support from travel they apologize body fall is a part yesterday where some of the protest this beaten up suspected spies from mainland china and they tried to explain be inconvenienced cautious how was do 2 flights cancellation despite criticism protested today to try to take

a step back and hopefully to regain and keep up the momentum for the upcoming protest. to be calling that reporting from hong kong international right want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world floods and landslides have killed nearly 300 people in india in the past month and displaced 1000000 more all 2 weeks of monsoon rains have washed away crops and damaged roads in the country's south and west many people are still living in relief camps waiting for floodwaters to recede. germany's latest grossed figures have fueled concerns that the country could be heading for a recession the economy contracted is 0 point one percent in the last quarter the slump has been attributed to the falling global trade will of the economy contracts again in the next quarter europe's only. largest economy would officially be in

recession. and italian court has ruled that a migrant rescue ship with almost 150 people on board may enter the country's waters after 30000 days at sea italy's interior ministry had banned the ship from italian territory another ship carrying more than 300 people is still adrift in the mediterranean sea with storm conditions forecast. hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires in greece the largest blaze is burning out of control on a nature reserve on the island of the north of athens while 4 villages and a monastery have been evacuated authorities have declared a state of emergency in the area. going to turn our attention now to russia and the kremlin says it's a winning the race to develop cutting edge nuclear weapons while that's despite

last week's deadly explosion at a military testing site in northern russia authorities ordered the evacuation of a nearby village only to cancel it hours later local officials reported a spike in radiation levels which russia's defense ministry denied all for many this denial echoes soviet era attempts to cover up serious disasters. a town between mourning and a sense of unease has all relevant information about last week's incident really being released 5 leading scientists were among the 7 who died in an explosion that caused high levels of radiation to be released into the atmosphere there being on a national heroes with officials praising their efforts to control the situation. the testing range in your knocks on the white sea is the same site where the soviet atomic bomb was developed directives from the sites nuclear research center gave an assessment of last week's incident. it was

a chain of tragic events following an initial analysis the man tried to get back under control unfortunately without success. according to experts in washington the incident was connected to the development of new powerful new khamis aisles during an engine test liquid fuel allegedly called light causing an explosion u.s. scientists say that that should not have released radiation but that's exactly what happened. radiation levels. for an hour. that say experts suggests the engine it was nuclear power and. that the russian nuclear research center near the city of several advanced nuclear submarines are built and fitted out with atomic weapons

that have been similar such accidents in the past though most are not revealed to the public what is clear is that radiation levels here 30 kilometers from the site of last week's explosion remain 20 times above the normal level. residents near the testing site on nervous regularly monitoring radiation levels with their own kids. those in the locality of inox where initially told they would have to evacuate then came the all clear though not from environmentalists. even those living as far as 30 kilometers from the site of the risk. depending on which substances were released. iodine tablets only limited protection against possible radiation exposure local pharmacists informed people about the associated risks but they say that didn't put many off good

people were panicking in an hour we've sold all our iodine tablets and meds and. russia is determined to develop weapons that travel vast distances at the speed of sound outpacing any missile defense systems. right now it seems it still has a way to go. to talk more about this is joined now in the studio by good stuff he's an expert in russian defense affairs for the european council on foreign relations good evening sir very warm welcome good to have you here this incident is still shrouded in so much secrecy what do we know about the rocket engine that is the source of this accident well look macho and most of the things that are so actually don't make sense at all so we know that 7 people have died several injured you know that this was their co-leader. little power souls to produce electric

power and in combination with the explosion all fleet which rocket fuel which points rather towards a nuclear satellite or some other space up location rather than across the side. as the. statements are usually conflicting there is actually amateur video footage that doesn't fit to it is tradition of the m o d we just and it induces fueling so much distrust among the population as well understandably because why not just be transparent why not just say what has happened and reassure people that you're on top of this problem well let's not sort of the soviets kind of governing and putin's russia is pretty much governed in in terms of the soviet union or in the style of the soviet union. so the sign is officially secret what

they do is show a secret. if. there is no clear information of what actually happened what was developed. if you would declassify or start to almost be talk about walt. happen dare you mind to actually give away to the world or you're researching ah it's not so cutting edge as you claim it used numerous propaganda tapes the russian oil has been told about it to eat that might be embarrassing there is sort of the usual bureaucratic hurdle it's the armed forces are a state within the state that is hardly controlled and are not accountable to anybody but putin himself and he if he doesn't want to be cleared up it will not be cleared up i mean it's very very concerning of course for the people who live nearby these areas but how concerning is it for you as an observer as well to see this these

types of accidents happen do you expect more of these accidents happen in the near future all the problems with any kind of the well and you can never rule out accidents the other problem is we really don't know what the russians are really developing. to their sort of new bold weapons is the sort of phone computer screen these old computer simulations to us show percent of the march warm they're very bold and very risky but we don't know whether that's just a profit on their coup or really serious. there's actually one thing practically the west can do i mean this is the last lynchpin of transparency towards. was russia at least from from the military to military contact is the start treaty which i have least house some 4 months off by last for a dialogue between officials for no verification possible no verification only on deployed systems not on research and development or once the things are declared operational actually american officers can go there and visit it and see what's

still more likelihood of that happening yes but this sort of area the last source of serious information you can get because all the whys there's nothing in the program start will expire in 2020 and the corrupt must ration has no up or time to prolong it. unfortunately. gristle expert in russian defense affairs for the european council on foreign relations sir thank you for weighing and. come. we turn now to italy where a technical report has shown that parts of the road bridge that collapsed in general are year ago had not been maintained for 25 years the structure collapsed in heavy rain killing 43 people the local prosecutor said the ongoing investigation would show whether lack of maintenance was instrumental in causing the collapse the report came out as people gathered to remember the people who died in the tragedy. at 11 36 am exactly the time when the mood on the bridge collapsed one year ago

genoa stood still commemorating the victims among those taking part in the ceremony were at least present such a month that ireland and the city's mass. media that generally she's ready for action today we stand here on the new construction site to commemorate the victims . but we also look to the future and want the city to be strong again. parts of the bridge collapsed from a height of over 200 meters into the put shiva valley 43 people died and 16 were injured hundreds of people had to evacuate their homes situated beneath the bridge as the rest of the structure was also in danger of collapsing in 2019 the remaining parts were detonated in a controlled demolition. authorities are still debating exactly who is responsible for the disaster. relatives of the victims like benedetta would like to see justice done today is about remembering those who lost their lives she says but she would

also like to see the new bridge commemorate what happened you're planning. i can't wait for the new bridge to be built on connect the city again. she thought. but most of all for it to remember the victims. the new bridge posts are already in place in less than a year traffic should be flowing again one time or 2 hour to facebook is in hot water again this time is due to revelations about the company's messenger app and every reporter carl nason is here with me shock horror who what or how i have to tell us what you know what have you found out i mean there are all those rumors right that facebook was listening to our conversations it turns out in a way that's true it wasn't quite what we thought it was so there were these rumors ok to listening to our phones or giving us these creepy personal advertisements based on our conversations it was actually for a different purpose. so according to bloomberg facebook it hired outside company to

listen to and transcribe audio clips from users conversations facebook says this was done to improve its artificial intelligence and this was basically something that automatically changer audio into text inside of facebook messenger this is the feature that we're talking about right here you can see how this works if you turned on voice transcription and sent a friend an audio message your message would automatically be turned into text just like here in this case it's a grocery list of course we know little of artificial intelligence is not always very accurate and that's why it turns out a human being a real person may have been listening to those audio clips in order to check the accuracy of that system so real people were listening in to your facebook conversations how is that legit well it's a little bit creepy i mean here's the thing facebook had told its users that a person might be listening to those audio chance in fact even the contractors that

were hired to do this felt a little bit iffy about it apparently some of those audio clips were not grocery lists they were personal quite personal conversations we reached out to facebook today the company stressed look this audio was anonymous so you didn't know who was talking there was only used to improve its technology improve its products it wasn't for giving you advertisements a company spokesperson also told us it stopped the practice here's exactly what facebook said they told us much like apple and google we paused human review of audio more than one week ago. so they're basically saying we weren't the only ones doing this what they're saying and they're right this is now the 5th big tech company that essentially got caught doing this exact same things that amazon google apple microsoft now facebook all the tech giants have done this and in amazon's case for example employees were listening to voice recordings from alexa smart speakers and in all those cases the companies had not told their customers what was

going on they now all say they've stopped doing it ok what can we do about that i mean as users are concerned users well so this particular situation is not happening anymore but if you worried i mean there's a surefire way to make sure that no company can listen to your audio and that is to turn off access to your microphone on your smartphone in the pretty simple fix if you go into the settings of your phone whether apple or android you see the screen here for us go to the app you're concerned about whether it's facebook facebook messenger simply flip that switch they don't allow access to the microphone that's the best way in the end though companies need to just get this message that users do not want to their personal conversations being listened to for any purpose especially not without their knowledge or maybe we users have to get used to the fact that those accounts are not ours an old fashioned phone call maybe i have a go thank you so much carla greatly appreciate it thank you. now she was the cow course a girl for climate change or awareness graft on birds the swedish teenager is the

face of the fridays for future movement so she's now on her way to the united nations climate summit in new york city refuses to fly to keep her own carbon footprint as small as possible so instead she set sail for england on a racing yacht powered by solar energy. 16 year old greta totenberg is imparting on earth great adventure she has never sailed before difficult weather can. missions are to be expected but she's willing to rough it to save c o 2 emissions in what many see as a symbolic move. what i'm concerned about is whether we we will do something or not whether the people in power will react and acts with unnecessary force. who has been the target of online abuse from across the political spectrum denies she's being instrumental lies by the green lobby. people who want climate delay

years who want to do everything to shift the focus from the climate crisis to something else or 12 to make people question the science and i'm not worried about that so i'm just going to do as i as i want to do and i think will have most impact. conditions on board the milly's a 2 yacht or simple there's no toilet on board. and sleeping quarters are basic. it shows her determination to accept uncomfortable conditions so she can get across the atlantic as carbon neutral as possible on a normal god she could have had her own cabin we did a conditioning in the shower but she's taking this part that only produces a small amount of electricity by means of solar power and it's very fast so it can bypass storms and hurricanes. the journey

spawning almost 5 and a half 1000 kilometers across the atlantic ocean will take about 2 weeks. now to music companies have to sold appearances by opera singer placido domingo all that comes after numerous allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior against the 78 year old in a statement of ingo called the accusations deeply troubling he said he believes his inner actions in relation. ships were always welcomed and consensual us angeles opera meanwhile where the storyteller is general director is launching an investigation. and a team and journalist k.j. matthews joins me now from l.a. to fill us in on the very latest k.j. very good to see you what have you learned about these allegations. well what i can

tell you is just what a difference 48 hours makes you know it was 48 hours ago that the associated press came out with this bombshell story were 9 individuals came forward and said they had been sexually harassed by placid oh domingo over decades soon after that you heard reverberations throughout the opera community you have the san francisco opera rescinding their invitation you have at the philadelphia opera getting involved saying they no longer want him you have the new york metropolitan opera saying we hear there's an investigation being put on by the los angeles opera and we're going to wait for the results of that before we make any decisions about future events with class ago now remember possible domingo is still the general director of the last los angeles opera that is right now and they're the ones who are launching an investigation with an outside counsel but in short these women are coming forward and saying there were times where he forcibly kissed them on the

mouth one said she was sexually grohl they all felt that their jobs were on the line or that whether or not they would receive opportunities were dependent on whether or not they agree to sexual encounters with them so they're saying they were harassed and as you just read the statement though is denying not denying necessarily what they said if you read into what he said what he's saying is it didn't happen in the way that they presented it not that it didn't happen at all so that's very interesting the terminology that he's using now what will the fallout be i mean for the opera world i mean will they have to now look very deeply into their own houses what's going on there. absolutely you know a lot of people are saying this could never have happened without the me too movement and all the reverberations from hollywood in the last 2 years i mean a lot of the domingo has has had been like more than 150 roles more than 4000

performances he really is synonymous with opera so it will be very interesting to see what is ultimate fallout will be but they have to take these these allegations seriously today because there are so many men and some women who have lost high ranking positions after people have felt forward felt comfortable that is coming forward telling their story and these women that have come forward with these allegations against placerville domingo are saying they felt like now was time and that he had gotten away with way too much for way too long and tim and journalist k.j. matthews reporting from l.a. thank you fink you. now space odyssey or space oddity while an italian astronaut has become the 1st person to perform a live d.j. set in orbit or of layers of board a party ship in the mediterranean dance to the sounds of a d.j.

luke up army tano he performed a set from the international space station using an i pad. club though is danced hard but they couldn't hope to match herman tanos a space suit check that out. the. looks like a lot of fun a reminder of the top stories that we're tracking for you right now congolese have fired a more rounds of tear gas against pro-democracy demonstrators out of the violence at the airport sit in on choosing china reacted furiously to what it calls terrorists like attacks on its citizens by protesters. don't forget you can always going to every news on the go just download our app from google plate or for the app store and that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as christian education is for any

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. into the conflict zone confronting the powerful. my guest this week here in berlin is the qatari foreign ministry spokesperson. caught up in the last 2 years the gulf state of qatar has been blockaded by a 4th chance of the arab states which accuse it of supporting terrorism she has

always denied the charges of. conflict so far. on the doubling. grappling with some tricks. to express her feelings i am not very creative yet and i would love to be considered an artist one day looking for new perspectives. to a fake not really replaying spoke briefly on camera doing things differently to. come to the place where we were. click on society. march 20 more to come t.w. . it's all happening. pretty. sure a link to the news from africa and the world. link to inception stories

and discussions opinion will come to student news african income family night from sunny germany from the news of these eaves and i would say de deputed comes to much africa to join us on facebook t.w. africa. you know with thoughts so you're dealing with comments on the no no no no what i said that you want to call it terrorism not a war and this thing that i mean what's a problem for the entire world is you don't think of the last 2 years the gulf state of qatar has been blockaded by a quartet of arab states which accuse it of supporting terrorism my guest this week here in berlin is the qatari foreign ministry spokesperson. cough up 2 years always denied the charges but with question marks going back many years to go.