this is coming to you live from twitter and facebook take action against chinese government propaganda targeting hong kong the justice region has been trying to counter the pro-democracy movement with social media disintegration some 200008 counseling to that campaign have now been suspended by twitter also coming up. this is the worship to come places of slaughter in a year that seems many religious centers targeted by terrorists world religions

gathered in germany to debate the social and political responsibilities. and now we know for sure if you're feeling blue go green and academic study finds that there's nothing better than a brisk walk in the park to stay happy. hello and welcome. thanks for your company social media platforms twitter and facebook of shut down accounts job getting the pro-democracy movement in hong kong the platform said the accounts were part of the chinese government dissent commission campaign aimed at groups and individuals facebook has closed a number of accounts some of the images posted showed protesters as terrorists and cockroaches twitter has suspended over 200000 accounts and plans to ban advertisement from. state run media. now both on social media platforms i just

want bot of beijing's propaganda war theater on television is all supplying the road as we hear in our next report. this is the scene on the border of hong kong 600 illuminated drones hover in the night sky i love hong kong and i love china is their message the mainland urging calm and restraint. but state media is sending another more chilling message as well the evening news presenter says the protesters are plunging hong kong into chaos she's the huntington do you think. the demonstrators are like retro things they have angered the people and the powerful in heaven he us. chinese state media feeds the viewers an endless stream of the same images of violence there's no coverage of peaceful mass protests. demonstrators are equated with terrorists controlled by

foreign powers and here to prove it is the us flag. to demonstrate as a very young it's very sad that they are being led astray i mean that the most out of. the official narrative features a hero standing up to chaos food how a journalist for chinese state media who was bound and beaten by anti beijing protesters at hong kong airport food fake went viral on state controlled social media presented as an assault on all of china's 1400000000 citizens. i know for sure how the demonstrators say they are defending human rights but they deny journalists rights to enter viet ports i give journalist a big films look for the courage he showed. me that you know that official media has also focused on protesters actions seen as highly unpatriotic this clip of demonstrators throwing the chinese flag into hong kong harbor triggered outrage on

social media an outpouring of patriotic fervor from chinese citizens branding hong kong's pro-democracy movement an attack on their national pride. it is a great honor for me to be part of the 1400000000 defenders of our flag and i will do my best to ensure it is always respected. an airborne light show isn't the only spectacle at the border the paramilitary people's armed police have also been holding drills this week a show of force to back up the media messaging. our correspondent sean bell is in hong kong covering the protests that were shot at a strong propaganda offensive by beijing is it having an impact on the protesters and then movement. well protesters i think would point to the demonstration on sunday which organizers say

attracted 1700000 people that is one of the biggest protests since this whole movement began 11 weeks ago so it's clear that this movement can still attract groups opposed and it can still attracts the numbers that's not to say that these protestors on's concerned about what they're seeing coming out of beijing state media and on social media pointing in particular to the assembly of the beijing's paramilitary peoples and police on the border that's something that caused a bit of a stir here in hong kong particularly among people attending those street protests but i think most people are aware that any kind of military action by beijing is is still very unlikely that's because beijing has developed significantly the technology has developed significantly since they cracks down on protesters in tandem and square in 1909 some estimates say that thousands of people were killed

in that people here in hong kong don't say don't imagine any kind of rhetoric heard that certainly certainly not imminently judy to this very not scale propaganda efforts by beijing at the the images of those streets which are going around the world being part of it so what are people they think about bingeing strategic thinking and that's who is this propaganda targeted. well it's really as battle of the narratives amrita the protest is really want to make clear that they are extremely peaceful in fact at the protest on sunday we spoke to a number of people who said that they were all united in trying to avoid a repeat of the clashes that we seen on the streets in recent weeks they are aware of the way that those violent scenes of being used by chinese state propaganda by social media to paint them an extremely bad light paint them as a minority of violence used so the protest movement really is adapting trying to

find as many as many people as many different ways rather as possible of getting their message heard in fact later on in the week we're expecting protesters to form a human chain through hong kong so they are getting increasingly creative in a innovative so in that sense the chinese state media the propaganda hasn't really fazed them what we do believe is that it could as it could be aimed at people back on the mainland just to show them that beijing is not sitting on its hands when it comes to dealing with these protesters in hong kong and that it won't tolerate unrest and she'll bring us up to do it on what else is happening where you are. we haven't seen any street protests today but what we have seen are several fairly significant developments in this protest movement one being the apparent attention of a an employee for the british consulate here in hong kong he's not been seen apparently for about 12 days british authorities say they're extremely concerned he believes

have been detained on the way from the mainland back into hong kong another big development that we've seen is police apparently or video apparently showing 2 police officers here in hong kong attacking and arrested elderly man in a hospital that's really gone viral on social media here people saying that it's just by the fact he was in a protest of people saying that this is more evidence of the violent conduct of police and it certainly is likely to fuel anger here in hong kong seana chosen bill thank you very much for that update from hong kong. let me bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild russia and china have warned that the u.s. missile test on sunday has heightened military tensions and risks sparking an arms race washington said it had tested a new medium range cruise myside the test comes just weeks off the u.s. with drew from a treaty with moscow that banned or land based missiles. british prime minister

boris johnson has called on the eve to scrap the so-called irish backstop with the breaks that agreement in a letter to the european council president. he instead proposed korda flexible and creative solution to potential problems of the north and northern ireland board discussed rejected on since proposing saying his letter contained no realistic we turn to ted's. migrants are jumping off the spanish humanitarian rescue ship open arms in a desperate bid to reach the italian shore they've been blocked from entering port for 19 days in as conditions deteriorate it's hard line interior minister has refused to port access to the ship. jail when johnson is in iceland taking part in a climate change summit with leaders of nordic countries michael and be hosted by iceland's prime minister. who has said she will put the climate crisis front and

center at the meeting heatwaves this. time high temperatures in several european states as well as accelerating. on ice land. let's have a closer look at the issues facing this summit. greeting iceland's prime minister. last year now it's not time to pay a visit it's the chancellor's 1st trip to its land and had 14 years in office. the visit coincides with a growing interest in global warming at the meeting of nordic prime ministers in reykjavik climate change is one of the key talking points the arctic and scandinavian countries on its rim heavily affected by rising temperatures lacie is a melting and so with the ice sheets covering the poles as this picture taken in greenland

impressively shows this is causing sea levels to rise a dangerous development with global repercussions. so it was with those in line to suffer the consequences are making their anger heard. i was with schoolchildren and staging regular protests across europe in what has become the fridays for future movement. in this way dish teenager has become the movement's figurehead guy to turn back recently visited germany to support protests against deforestation chancellor merkel is aware that changing voted demographics demand a shift in priorities for answers to the passion with which gretta and many many young people remind us that this is about their lives and that their horizon reaches much further than ows has prompted us to take up this issue with more

urgency. the whole time was europe has to throw its weight behind protecting the environment. is they often was in germany concerned about climate change has boosted the green party's popularity the greens could surpass marcos conservatives as the biggest party in the next elections. while michael professes to fight for the environment this is also a fight for political survival. in a year when places of worship across the globe seem to have become particular targets of terrorist attacks the was the biggest interfaith assembly is meeting in southern germany the $900.00 representatives from many religions are debating this socio political responsibilities in society and politics with special emphasis on the rule of women in bringing about peace president from. the deliver the

assemblies keynote address. reporter at the world's religions for peace is in southern. lindau is it to him i have to list more about this initiative and why is it so important. so and rita as you have mentioned this is the world's largest gathering of interfaith religious leaders it doesn't happen very often it happens only about 5 every 5 to 7 years over 800 delegates really from every religious faith and tradition but you can imagine in this group the special thing about this gathering there's a special focus on young people and also as you have said women in a world where religion and faith is sometimes seen as a precursor to conflict and strife they really want to bring together these religious leaders along with government leaders and the young people to see how things can get better essentially for their future because oftentimes it is young

people and women that are on the frontlines of these conflicts you mentioned the opening ceremony which is ending as we speak it was the start of with an interreligious prayer with the children from different phases muslim faith christian faith jewish friends and a buddhist and also a just indigenous children and they were there standing on the stage asking world leaders to to rethink their ways because they at the end are the ones that have to live with the consequences of their actions and i have this sibylla also be discussing how to protect places of worship at a time when attacks and sometimes appear to be on the rise a metaphor we continue our conversation let's take a live look at this report. disbelief in christ church new zealand. it's march 29000 and a white supremacist has just shot dead 51 people in consecutive attacks at a mosque and an islamic center in the city. what is especially horrific

many of the victims were killed or injured while praying the mosque a place of peace turned into sight of slaughter soon after the u.n. secretary general makes this plane i am making a global call can you from the center of the of all praise. the worship and the safety of all worshippers who visit reverend sides in a spirit of compassion and dollars. people everywhere must be allowed to observe and practice their face in peace. yet just several weeks later on easter sunday terrorists carry out attacks in lanka among the targets a christian churches nearly 260 people are killed. churches or other places of worship are not immune from violence on the contrary attacks on religious sites are commonplace all over the world. in october 28th teen a gunman killed 11 people during present to synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania

it's thought terrorists target congregations to kill as many people as possible but killing people at their place of worship also sends another message that religious communities are at risk even when they're in what is supposed to be a place of sanctuary. for reasoning to you i am the delegates they are facing many problems as we can see so what kind of meetings and discussions are expected at lindell today. i must say rita almost every delegate i have spoken to is well aware of the challenges that they're facing in the region because of faith but they're committed to finding solidarity solidarity is really a very a word that you hear very often here in the conference yesterday i met a group of women from different faiths in the middle east and north africa region and they have together launched a solidarity and empowerment initiative for refugee women in syrian refugee women

in jordan bringing them with jordanian women so that the women can talk to each other to avoid the hostilities between the population of the country and the hosting refugee refugee population and the refugee population these women came from the jewish christian and different. groups in the muslim faith and it was quite inspiring to actually see a sunni muslim woman sitting next to an iraqi shiite woman someone who comes from a country that has been plagued with with with violence because of sectarian violence it together and actually admit that there's more common a commonality of them differences between them and i what are the participants of want to achieve at this conference in lindau. i mean i think for the younger generation especially what they want is visibility they want to be here to tell the the world leaders the older generation that they exist that they will be the ones bearing the brunt of these conflicts but also the assembly is very action oriented

so yesterday i also got to attend a workshop for young religious leaders teaching them how to use social media to effectively and positively send their message so it's both action oriented but also they want to send the message that they are here right i am to have him in da thank you very much for that information from that. a 21 in a woman as salvatore whose baby was found dead in the toilet where she gave birth has been cleared of monetary retrial evelyn anon this had or has maintained her innocence she says she did not know that she was pregnant and lost consciousness during the birth a case has been closely watched with rights groups calling for a protest. freedom for evelyn hernandez after 3 years behind bars a court in san salvador acquitted the young woman of aggravated homicide charges

she had been serving a 30 year sentence. flanked by her supporters a moment of huge relief. 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 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 had been raped and was unaware of her pregnancy when an emergency at home resulted in a stillbirth 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 in 2017 commandos was sentenced to prison but in february el salvador supreme court overturned the ruling for lack of evidence over the past years the struggle of evelyn hernandez has become a symbol for 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. now for some sports news and a surprise draw till has seen by munich try to strengthen its side with the signing of forward philip to continue from boston the brazilian joins them on a season long loan and when that number 10 as you can see and that was the number off the recently retired icon of robin before was well done will then have the option of making the deal permanent for just 120000000 euros.

so surprised to see lennon messi and. rich make the shortlist for the good of the this year add the name of billie simpson to that stellar list since in place for cliftonville ladies in the northern ireland women's league she volunteered this tunnel from her inside her own half against the sea on swift's last day you say he's a simpson is up to 3 women making up the 10 shortlist the winner will be announced at the 3 football awards next month. but if you want to stay happy go green a new study from the us has found that a good walk in the park is an excellent way for townies to get driven off the blues we all knew that already of course but the research is in the notably verdant state of the law and took an innovative approach to reach their conclusions have

a look life can be hard in the concrete jungle and increasingly research is revealing that greenery and open spaces can have a big impact on how urban dwellers feel but how to show that spending time in a park makes you happier in their new study researchers from the university of vermont in the us turn to a popular social media platform twitter. and an online tool called a heat anomic or which has been used to analyze billions of tweets the 2 ranks common words typed into the short electronic messages on a scale from one to 9 and assigns them a score words like happy and flowers score high while words like crash and jail scored low the researchers focused on almost 5000 twitter users in san francisco who publicly identify their location the scientists geotagged and analyze tweets from when and where the user spent time the he nominee then spat out a score on those tweets and the scientists analyze changes in sentiment before

during and after the twitter users spent time in green spaces the results showed tweet happiness scores rose dramatically for the users and parks in fact they were equivalent to us wars only otherwise averaged across the social media platform and one day a year christmas. as vast numbers of people move to urban centers and the number of city dwellers who suffer from mental health disorders grow sharply proof that green spaces can make you feel like it's christmas could have major implications for both city planning and public health. to give that report was by deja vu derek williams from a science desk you know and joins me the studio welcome derek so the study came 13 a box make people happy can one really measure that well actually this is kind of a no brainer in a way for anyone who lives in a major urban center we know that going into the park can make you feel better and make you feel more positive what's really interesting about this research though is

the methodology it's really pretty cool i mean to use a tool like twitter in order to estimate or figure out how people are feeling at a particular given moment in time is not a simple thing to do 1st of all you have to have a parameter you have to have this you denominator this this tool that allows you to do that now it's based on a group of human volunteers that these words are not are not generated by machines and they're not interpreted by machines the. the at the base was was interpreted by people people decided how positive happy was or how positive flowers was but the what's interesting is that it's able to then crunch these tweets and and and spit out a number that allows you 1st of all then to measure it and this tool has already been used in city planning to interpret things like levels of positivity within cities or across seasons but now what's interesting about this is that they've also added an extra dimension which is you have to interpret where people are when they're tweeting these things and in order to do that these researchers tracked people who

were publicly announcing their locations over a period of about 3 months and they were then and in terms of time seeing that there are positivity their levels of positivity as interpreted by this human ometer were surging when they went into parks and that that effect was continuing for about 4 hours afterwards now whether a surgeon positivity is the same thing as happiness exactly is a philosophical question actually but it's really related to what to me when this is even a conclusion is after all just methodology whatever they conclude in is that if you're going to poc you feel happy as happy as if you did christmas it's as easy as that somebody else would say i go to a pub and i drink 3 pints and i feel happy well as happy as your christmas i don't know how happy your after you've had 3 pints but people are certainly tweeting very positive things i mean what's the what is probably the most normal tweet in the world to send somebody were to put out there on christmas is merry christmas or maybe happy holidays and so it's really kind of an artificial benchmark in a way but at the same time what they're saying is they were able to observe people

actually hitting that artificial benchmark on a regular basis when they were in parks ok but only tricia from a methodology only today uses was. in this thing about how representative rich a uses this such a big conclusion which is as you said a no bid on the 1st place that's actually a very interesting question because when you think about it the whole idea of going into a park you know somebody who's twitter. obsessed somebody who's pulled out pulling out their phone and tweeting all the time you wouldn't assume that they would actually bring the full benefits of being of sitting in the park so but the demographics the information that we have in the research that's been done into this the demographics of the average twitter user it looks like the research is fairly robust and i mean it's certainly strong enough that after work i'm going to go out into the market i'm just going to stay off of my feet and i will big fat have boxes been dug millions from us i'm sick thank you baby much for giving us the science of why we feel happy when we go into the green or into the countryside. you're watching the dr next news coming up next it's kickoff and all the bundesliga

action from the 1st weekend of the new season to stay with us for that if you can't otherwise check out our website mr dudley dot com will follow us on twitter and on facebook i'm going to touch him up but enough. to.

kick off the bus going back. to the business season stop hamas media in. the us in climax to the feast. and tonight's

game development the 1st weekend of play on. a number of hopes for will your cancer is building stadiums to host of these suckers events of 20 twentieth's or one of the appear to be big changes in the state itself but how much progress has really been made behind the scenes on the extremely surprised to hear that is anything remotely resembling a democracy listen the failing groups are. closer in 60 minutes on d w. i don't think that well i guess sometimes i am but i stand up and went with that message of ethics deep into german culture looking at the stereotype clad in ears

think you see the country that i now live. via needed to be taken as grandma am to you it's all about. my my job join me from the gentleman from d.w. . post.