this is the view news live from berlin twitter and facebook take action against chinese government propaganda targeting hong kong protesters beijing has been trying to counter the pro-democracy movement with social media dissin from asia twitter has now suspended more than $200000.00 accounts it believes are part of that campaign also coming out. germany agrees for the very 1st time to take back the children born to german islamic state fighters in syria but will their parents

be coming back with them. and a landmark case in el salvador after a court acquits a young woman accused of murder after suffering a miscarriage the 21 year old was facing 40 years in prison. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us social media platforms twitter and facebook have shut down accounts that targeted the pro-democracy movement in hong kong the platform said the counts were part of a chinese government just information campaign aimed at groups and individuals twitter has suspended over 200000 accounts and plans to ban advertisements from state run chinese media. facebook has also taken action and it has also klout closed a number of accounts some of the posted images showed protesters as cockroaches

were terrorists. to break this all down and join in the studio now by china analyst clifford good morning clifford what do you think about this what what does this tell us about the scale of beijing's online propaganda war against the protesters in hong kong well i think beijing has studied what's happening on that studied mass media and it just sees the potential for things to spin out of control in terms of social unrest so they're targeting twitter and facebook even though both of course are banned in china there's they've still realize that if they want to get their message across that they need to focus on these 2 hugely popular platforms and so they come out with these messages as you say describing them as cockroaches and putting a lot of messages out there about foreign influence and i'm basically trying to get their message across about social cohesion and protect the police and the patriotic message to use these platforms to get that message out there as much as possible

i'm going to post on social media platforms are just one of the part of the propaganda war by the chinese government here's a look at what state run t.v. is doing to get the government's message out. state propaganda can seem so harmless at hong kong's border china's communist rulers have rustled up a fairy tale 600 illuminated drones hover in the night sky i love hong kong and i love china is their message but propaganda can have another aspect the evening news also has a message protesters are plunging hong kong into chaos. she's the huntington who should take to the demonstrators are like bread droppings they have angered the people and the powerful in heaven here in the us. china's state media. the viewers an endless stream of the same images of violence there's no coverage of peaceful mass protest demonstrators are equated with terrorists under the control of foreign

powers no coincidence then that the stars and stripes flutters into the shot. it doesn't start as a very young it's very sad that they are being led astray i mean. every good tale needs a hero that rules are reserved for food. a journalist for chinese state media who is seized the sound and beaten by anti beijing protesters at hong kong airport whose fate went viral on state controlled social media presented as an assault on all of china's 1400000000 citizens. while the demonstrators say they are defending human rights but they deny journalists their right to enter the airport i give that journalist a big thumbs up for the courage he showed footage of we don't get that kind of propaganda is especially effective when it stirs up deeper feelings this side of demonstrators throwing the chinese flag into hong kong harbor triggered outrage on

social media and in response an outpouring of patriotic fervor from chinese citizens branding hong kong's pro-democracy movement as an attack on their national pride will soon trollish it is a great honor for me to be one of the 1400000 defenders of our flag and i will do my best to ensure it is always respected but as you will know it's injured teacher in china isn't only flying drones at the border close by the paramilitary people's arms police has been holding drills this week more profit ganda that doesn't seem as harmless as i love hong kong. is a very tense situation and the troops on the border there what are the hong kong protesters doing to combat this state propaganda and get their message out there well one of the most popular apps i think the most downloaded up last month in hong kong was telegram which is the kind of a leaderless it allows them to have

a kind of a leaderless approach. very heavily used. and they're also using very traditional methods about handing out stickers word of mouth you know a lot of this is very old fashioned as well but definitely the high tech side is very important i think a lot of people are hearing what they want to hear sometimes because there is a perception among mainland chinese somehow that the hong kong hong kong is a bit spoilt and bit ungrateful so the propaganda is feeding directly into that message the twitter of the fact that they're going after twitter and facebook which is bound to say banned in china shows that there are going for the kind of people in china who would use that who would be the students the younger people who would more likely be to be more likely to have a sympathy with the protesters in hong kong so it's actually a very sophisticated approach and in some ways it's modeled on the russian playbook i think with the u.s. elections they they saw how successful that was and they've been on twitter and

facebook have realized that and hence they've come out with these measures to restrict them because of the propaganda war in full swing there in hong kong clifford thanks very much for coming in. a preview now and some of the other stories making the news at this hour french president tomorrow mccall as host of his russian counterpart vladimir putin for a rare bilateral meeting talks aimed at improving relations between moscow and the e.u. leaders vowed to make a new effort to bring peace to eastern ukraine but remain at odds over the war in syria. for climate change is top of the agenda when german chancellor all-american meets iceland's prime minister and other nordic leaders and reykjavik later today over the weekend iceland held its 1st ceremony marking the death of a glacier due to global warming. turkey's defense ministry says 3 civilians have been killed and 12 wounded in an attack on

a turkish military convoy in northwestern syria a human rights group says the syrian regime and allied russian warplanes in rebel held it live province to prevent that convoy from advancing or for the very 1st time german authorities have taken in children born to former fighters of so-called islamic state the children were living in a refugee camp in syria in june a german court ruled that the country must take in children with german citizenship other nations including france and belgium have already done so. many for children are travelling to the country of their parents who had once joined the so-called is not a state and died now for the 1st time and often tough negotiations with the kurdish led administration the german government is repatriating children born to i.a.s. militants. for lish it's

a welcome development that for german children who had been in custody in northern syria were able to leave the country today. in addition will advocate for the possibility of other children in the same circumstances to leave syria is this essentially concerned small children whose living conditions are far from. the kurdish camps are squalid in our whole camp alone 75000 people live in close quarters among them are many i.a.'s followers hygiene and medical care are minimal and to seize it's spread easily german children are among those growing up in these conditions and their mothers want to return home as soon as possible yeah see me says she arrived in syria in 2014 and lived in iraq and die yes control she has been living in a kurdish camp with her 2 children for 2 years. so it's very difficult for the children my son is 4 years old i sent him here from school he has to learn something i want to learn something too it's already been 2

years that's time i won't get back i hope we'll get picked up so that we can get a 2nd chance. one out of many stories us pressure on the german government grows to bring more of its citizens back from syria. let's take a closer look at this now what do you have used for the call correspondent good morning hans hans where is the pressure coming from to bring these children back to germany. i think you could say the major pressure comes from relatives here in germany of those children in syria in the camps in the kurdish controlled areas of syria they have been sending letters to the government they have been organizing groups of relatives in germany and i think going to courts the courts have had several cases brought to fall to pressure the german government to bring back children from syria we've just heard in this report about one of those court cases where in fact the german government was. told that it needed to bring that it was

to. that it had to bring back these children from syria so that's one part of the pressure the other pressures coming from international sources especially from the kurds themselves who are holding tens of thousands of people with an eye as background do not have the resources to who to actually support those people and feel that the country's. aat side that area should bring back their citizens that the concerns obviously not only germany ok the difficult part of this equation hans is of course the parents well the parents these islamic state fighters or former islamic state fighters be coming back with them and could they ever pose a security threat to germany. well at the moment the children these concrete cases these 4 children we're talking about they're traveling back to germany with their grandparents 3 of them often so there are no parents to consider in that situation the 4th child is that very young girl which is seriously injured as

a serious medical condition her mother continues to live in the camp but there have been obviously a number of people who have returned under their own steam there are several 100 former. supporters who are being moved back in germany as far as the people are concerned that are still in those camps germany might consider bringing back relatives such as the mothers of the children the children together with their mothers but so far germany has said that i as fighters specially men but also some women are not being considered for being returned at the cost and at the expense of the german government ok so the government taking this on a case by case look at the situation hans thanks very much for that. this is deja vu news live from berlin still to come on the show coal is at the heart of an election campaign coming up in the 2 german states where it's

a major employer we'll look at how the right wing populist if deep party is fighting to keep the industry going against government plans to close it down. but 1st a 21 year old woman in all salvador whose baby was found dead in the toilet where she gave birth has been cleared of murder during a retrial evelyn hernandez has always maintained her innocence saying that she did not know she was pregnant and lost consciousness during the birth of her case has been very closely watched with when those rights groups calling for her acquittal. it's a happy ending for evelyn hernandez after 3 years behind bars a court and send salvatore a quid at the young woman of aggravated homicide charges the prosecution had requested a 40 year sentence. finally free hernandez couldn't hide her joy. for

a boy. thank you for being here and thank god justice was done i also want to express my gratitude to those who have protested on might be half as well as my supporters and other countries and i want to thank my mother for it being there for me all along. hernandez had been imprisoned after suffering a miscarriage and being found guilty of murdering her unborn child the woman's lawyers argued she'd been raped and was unaware of her pregnancy when an upset trick emergency at her home resulted in a stillbirth for women convicted under el salvador's draconian anti abortion law usually face sentences of 2 to 8 years but often those who seek medical treatment after a miscarriage are charged with aggravated homicide and 20. 17 hernandez was sentenced to 30 years in prison but in february al salvador supreme court overturned the ruling for lack of evidence over the past 2 years the struggle of evelyn hernandez

has become a symbol for the women's rights movement and the fight for a more lenient abortion policy in all of latin america. that's why scores of activists outside the courthouse celebrated the ruling as a collective victory and a long overdue step in the right direction. a wildfire on the spanish island of gran canaria has forced the evacuation of some line 1000 people firefighters are struggling to get the boys under control but strong winds and low humidity are fanning the flames the biggest fire fighting operation ever carried out on the canary islands authorities are calling it an unprecedented environmental tragedy it's the 1st wildfire since last week more than 1000 firefighters and soldiers are on shift work night and day to try and control the place in some areas flames from the fires reach 50 meters into the sky making move to drop from

aircraft difficult work is now concentrated on keeping the outer limits of the fires contained so they don't reach an area as. you know today and tomorrow are decisive then we'll know whether the fires are under control that doesn't mean they'll be out yet fires like these can last for days. several villages were evacuated as a precaution during the night and early hours of the morning around 9000 people left their homes they're staying with relatives or in emergency shelters. now they're waiting for permission to return home so you're there you go again i'm 87 years old and i can remember a fire like this. it's unbelievable that it's happened again we simply have to look after the forests and fields better. the wildfires are raging and part of a unesco biosphere reserve. strong winds are making firefighting operations even

moot difficult. well less than 2 weeks voters in the german states of saxony in brandenburg are going to the polls and actions that are being very closely watched that's because in both states the right wing populist a.f.d. could become the strongest party in those states and push the established parties c.d.u. of all a machall in the s.b. day into the background while what's giving the campaign extra appeal is coal the last major wealth producer in this economically weak area especially in the allows its region the a.f.d. wants to keep coal fired power plants while the c.d.u. in the s.b. they have decided that they have to go the coal industry employs thousands in this area. it's half past 3 and stephan kubicki is under pressure he needs to order a crane. and it's me again what kind of crane do we need kind of one was it

again what. could be its key works in a coal fired power plant in the eastern german region of laos' it. lately he's been managing his election campaign qubits key wants to represent the far right alternative for germany party or a.f.d. in brandenburg state parliament. they kicked him out 10 years ago i never would have thought that i would get into politics so to speak and be this involved i could have gone fishing carried on or naked my dog for a walk i could have had a lot easier it's tough to be in the a.f.d. . hostile to you on your point of but the f.d.a. is popular here germany's phase out of coal fired power plants has many people here worried and the f.t. backs coal power which is practically the region's only source. of income the party

thrives on frustration with germany's mainstream parties what on the that's and what have they done for the last 30 years they make most people sick people don't believe in all the promises being made again just before the election. and. after the collapse of communist east germany many people moved to the west sense then the center left social democrats have governed the state of brandenburg. but since the emergence of the a.f.d. many voters deny climate change and use fear mongering to stir up than a phobia this party that's been tied to the nato nazis could become the most powerful force in the former east only a few people here are willing to comment on the f.t.'s rise in popularity. i was in good hands on where they want to go. we won't know until they're in power what is on the bottom and also why then it may be too late but it is my sincere. a.f.d.

candidate stephan kubicki who could lure s.p.d. voters to his camp dismisses concerns that his far right party is too extremist when george's issue of what if something in the a.f.d. became an example 90 out fast but i don't think that's an issue at all week nish you mean a far right trend yes that's always the assumption that there isn't one it's well informed and yet some of qubits key's own friends and family criticized him when he joined the f.t. . my family was divided some other relatives were really surprised and some were horrified they said man you're a decent guy how can you join the effort. even so other parties have been losing ground to the a.f.d.

but not the environmentalist greens they've won supporters on the issue of the climate crisis and say they don't know why eastern germans vote for the far right. people are doing well and that's why they're willing to do ridiculous experiments we have 3 percent unemployment and our district is at the top compared with others . but when it comes to the f.d.a. they act crazy and take risks. for us he. has nothing to offer and they don't contribute to solving any problems at all he said they just make vulgar complaints about their discontent. hearkens this evening another drawn out complaint. a.f.d. party leader alexander galland made an announcement he thrives on polarizing communities stephan kubicki also knows how to score points with this crowd. the

funniest question was what do i think of the climate activist great atoning bag i was taken aback so i answered i drive a v.a. with 388 horse power so i still have to answer this question. but the party chief gets even more applause added i'm a down gentleman if the f.d.a. governs brandenberg we will patrol our borders again. when. we have even dear friends even if that means things get ugly many voters say gellman's unvarnished frankness compliments stephan qubits he's more amiable style . this year for mr tibbetts king talks so much like ordinary people other politicians use more of a parliamentary language but he talks like the workers in the power plant and of

course people really like it. the a.f.d. can do what it wants in eastern germany at least it's set to become the party of the people. or is it the party of the people do their views chief political editor michelle customers here talk about that with us good morning michelle is. the only big tent party in brandenburg in sexily right now is that replacing the c.d.u. in the p d well that's the big concern amongst those established parties going to michael's consent to see you and the social democrats but this is a trend that really goes into 2 directions yes the looks likely to become the strongest party and in saxony at the same time at the other end of the spectrum the green party has been very successful in present representing a kind of counter balance to that they have a program they have a legacy of decades here in germany the f.t.

still a very young party and they seem to be able to mobilize voters as well the greens look set to double that figure from the last time around. but the look set to come on top of that election slogan is we are all the people but that's all quite true and i think to get more than like 21 percent that still leave some 79 percent with other parties ok you're just back from saxony in brandenburg and the greens have been out there stumping as well bringing out the big guns into those states right now is well they argue that they have big on this that they actually have an election program they've been talking about c o 2 emissions for decades now and that they really want to represent an alternative particularly for those coal mining regions but at the same time they say that they don't want to be fighting the a if t. this is something that the f.t. actually has been able to capitalize on they see themselves as the political out cost and they are representing themselves as the true alternative to establish

politics and that. he has struck in with people who are disappointed with developments following the full of about him war which is now those are diseases that you know. what is this going to mean for the stability of the german government a strong showing the a.f.d. becoming the strongest party of both those states what does it mean for berlin well if becoming the strongest party and with also this right wing tendencies with parts of the posse being under suspicion of actually being in breach with the german constitution they're getting a very close look at right now a definite particularly about we in the east and it means that the a.f.p. will become get a stronger force to be reckoned with in but the main concern amongst people who want to see this government continue is that the social democrats will get such a hard hit in these elections that back could lead to the end of the so-called

grand coalition looking at opinion polls right now that coalition is not so ground anymore it's a looking at the figures so. loss of potential for instability and which could lead to the end of this government but the situation in my memory has never been so open as it is right now here in germany ok so this could threaten the survival of the governing coalition of germany as large as michel thanks very much for the. reminder of our top stories right now twitter and facebook have taken action against the chinese government propaganda targeting hong kong protesters twitter is now suspended more than 200000 accounts are trying to discredit the pro-democracy movement there with this information. the state of the news live from berlin up next business news with gary hart al 1st and don't forget you can always get the latest news around the clock at our website w dot com for now for me bryan thomas the entire team thanks so much for being.

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