so millions can live. this is e.w. news live from berlin on call thora g.'s why does my crackdown on democracy activists so often months of turmoil lisa writes from an approach that says including joshua wall ted charged with inciting people to join an illegal gathering and then released on bail the government has already denied permission for a major march on saturday. or the coming up it's expected to be a rough weekend for german chancellor and going to british key regional elections 2

german states are expected to boost the strength of the country's far right 860. 5 have a home free you could join me hong kong lol florentines all ramping up their campaign against democracy activists this time targeting some of their most prominent figures among them protest leaders joshua wong and agnes chow who police arrested and then released earlier today in just a short while ago but he's detained 2 prominent pro-democracy no my cause is part of an intensifying crackdown on a protest movement that seen violent clashes hundreds of arrests and the recent arrival of fresh troops from china. emerging from court defiant.

joshua long and agnes child present themselves to the waiting media with a message for china and the world. will show not surrender and i urge international communities to send a clear message to a presidential sending troops or use an emergency order this is not the way out we will continue our fight no matter how they are rest because of who us. the pair were arrested early on friday and charged with organizing and participating in an unauthorized assembly those charges related to a demonstration back in june when protesters blockaded police headquarters but activists say the arrests are an intimidation tactic ahead of a planned rally this weekend one that has now been banned by authorities. police deny any link. really to the allegation that we tie in our rest is totally false. or indeed public all the events if you weekend in the past

of 2 months or in. so making the arrest today does not make any indication basically millions of people have joined the protest since they began in june over a controversial extradition. violence has escalated in recent weeks police have deployed rubber bullets batons and tear gas while protesters have thrown rocks and molotov cocktails last weekend police used water cannon for the 1st time over 850 people have been arrested but protesters have vowing to continue with an expanded list of demands including democratic elections and independent inquiry into the police response and dropping charges against all those arrested since the movement has no official leaders activists say that high profile detentions will not stop them when the government go hard that we go hard so that hong kong people are seeing really clearly so we are. the government please respond to the 5 the months

as soon as possible although. otherwise people may be using some more radical weights or more hard way to respond to the response of the god of the test of that protection comes on saturday when activists decide whether to defy the police ban on them march with neither side backing down and they before the confrontation ahead. well d.w. shallots house of hill is following the situation in hong kong for us and she sent us this assessment small protests like this one follow another meant to stay in this protest movement these people chanting 5 of freedom 54 hong kong now some 900 people have been arrested over the last 13 weeks but the sweep of these high profile activists over the last 24 hours have left many of these protesters shaken it's also caused a dark shadow on the days ahead a big march had been planned for tomorrow but organizers had to cool it off after

it was banned by police some protesters a scrambling to find legal ways to circumvent the ban but there will be those who are still willing to take to the streets tomorrow that anger fueled by the arrests today undaunted by police warnings that taking part in tomorrow's protests will be breaking the law with a general strike planned for monday and tuesday it seems these arrests have done little to suggest this protest movement. our correspondent in hong kong that while those arrests are also being closely watched in other parts of the world and at a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers in helsinki d.w. osc europe's top diplomat for her reaction to the situation hong kong appears to be escalating there were arrests of pro-democracy activists who have now been veiled a bit evidently the authorities are trying to prevent more protests i understand this was just briefly here today can you talk about your concern for that both you

and mr harvester has anything to thank you for the complete development. especially for this last hour or so extremely warning. we expect. to respect the freedom of assembly expression and association as well as obviously the right of people to demonstrate peacefully. we will continue to follow very closely as a utopian union but also include the nation with the member states a statement there from fed every any well let's bring you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world this hour a judge in scotland has rejected a bid to stop the british parliament from being suspended it's a prime minister boris johnson's move to shut down parliament is an undemocratic attempt to stifle debate in the final weeks before gregg's it which is currently due to happen on the 31st of october with or without a deal. as it was i was sitting where are you sure he was saying

we're going to strike really bring climate activists aggressor to merck is taking part in friday's for future protest with american schoolchildren outside the united nations building in new york progresses to just speak at the un climate action summit next month she crossed the atlantic from britain in a 0 carbon sailing yacht to avoid flying to the u.s. . germany's far right political party the a.f.d. or alternative for germany's expected to school big gains into a state elections coming up on sunday in saxony the f.t. is polling just speak heinz the center right c.d.u. the party of angle americal and things look even worse for the governing party in brandenburg the social democrats and we'll talk to our correspondent in a moment but 1st this report on the political landscape in the key states of saxony in brandenburg. 2 eastern german states are going to the polls and

the federal government is holding its breath as the surge of the far right populist a.f.d.c. could really shake things up saxony dresden is the capital germany's eastern most state has about $4000000.00 residents and is doing rather well economically with the auto industry and high tech but saxony has also developed a thriving right wing scene a year ago right wing extremists occupied the streets of chemists for days violent crime motivated by right wing extremism is that a record high. saxony is governed by a grand coalition of center right c.d.u. and center left s.p.d. on the party the c.d.u. has led the government here since german reunification it may remain the largest party but is said to lose votes especially to the far right populist a.f.d. and state premier may struggle to put together a new coalition. i'm a democrat i'm against

a minority government i've also said i won't coalesce with the f.t. or the left party for reasons of policy and personnel the rest of us will have to be able to talk to each other and be able to form a government as democrats. brandenburg potsdam is the capital the state surrounds berlin and has about 2500000 inhabitants brandenberg is also doing well economically if it weren't for the lignite problem the mining apparatus may grind to a halt soon germany plans to phase out the coal industry which many people here rely on for a livelihood in brandenburg the s.p.d. has also been in power since reunification it's currently in coalition with the left party but surveys suggest that it's unlikely that the 2 parties can continue to govern together. work flat out for 161820 hours a day so that the far right populist don't become the most powerful party here strikes across the s.p.d. and the a.f.d.

are neck and neck in brandenburg but the far right populists are unlikely to take power none of the other parties wants to join a coalition with them for years the have to has benefited from feelings of insecurity and of being neglected in the east it has taken on the slogans of the civil rights movement in former communist east germany berlin grand coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. especially are looking to the state elections with apprehension the s.p.d. is suffering from dwindling support and membership. and the c.d.u. is no longer getting through to their core voters in the east not a good sign for grand coalition. the likely winners of the state elections apart from the f.t. will be the greens their forecast to get record results in both saxony and brandenburg. with just 2 days to go until those state elections that bring in our chief political editor now michelle

a christian as she is in the state of brandenburg for us in the small city of conics wrister house and is the final day of campaigning and she's been keeping a keen eye on the a.f.d. activities michele or what's going on there. right where i'm standing in a couple of minutes we'll see prominent figures from the f.t. get to the stage and speak to a couple of 100 people gathered here but a significant proportion of them are actually from the media the f.t. is certainly getting a lot of media attention since it's so changed the debate here in germany we've seen a rather bruising campaign and here particular brand of what's at stake is whether the social democrats will actually be toppled from the option of forming a government that could indeed be a final blow to those social democrats who are so vital to the stability of angle americal self declared final term in government because her coalition is suffering

as we speak under that insecurity that decline of the social democrats who've been holding brandenberg for the past 3 decades that might come to an end if the a few wins out neck and neck race and of course that would be a heavy blow and with that in mind how confident are the right wing populists of winning this election. well for them anything above 20 percent or even a bit below that is a victory because they see themselves in any case no matter what the figures say as the only true. representatives of the people here and they've been campaigning on that echoing the civil rights movement of the former g.d.r. that brought the wall down in the end and also they wouldn't find a coalition partner anyway they are still the odd one out into politics nobody wants to go into coalition with them at the same time they're a driving force in this fragmentation of the political landscape that we've seen

and of course we've also got the top a.f.d. candidate in brandenburg making headlines here in germany for a number of weeks because of his supposed contact with radical near nazis tell us more about that. isn't this kind of it's the scene is very close to going head to who's also expected here today use leader of def to go the right wing extremist group ing within the a.f.c. and the bit by bit more and more about his past has come to light most recently that he was in the nazi youth camp in 1903 he hadn't has volunteered any of that information in the past only confirmed it when confronted by journalists so it's becoming apparent here that his father extremist history is a lot longer than people thought for him briefly macare how could these election results affect angela merkel's government. well if the social democrat s.t.d.

loses here and brandon burke and if it gets a real how marrying at the polls which it certainly looks like in the state of saxony then the social democrats well series of nervous breakdowns could lead to a chain of events that would probably take weeks and months here and money but still could threaten that very coalition called the so-called grand coalition under chancellor chief political editor michel occur for us in brandenburg good to have your analysis thanks. for ponies now and by munich have announced that former goalkeeper out of a cannon is joining a club sport starting in january and he'll take over as chief executive in 2022 when a car behind home and a go retires can 1800 new titles as a buy in player and the 2001 champions league title he was a mainstay of the team for 14 seasons and since retiring in 2008 the 50 year old has mainly been working as a t.v.

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