the cheatery action illegal. in series of google's 3 dolls of on t w and. this is d w news live from violating phone call authorities why did not crackdown on democracy activists soft amongst the turmoil but he's arrested prominent protesters including joshua wong they're charged with inciting people to join an illegal gathering then released on bail the government has already denied permission for a major mall on saturday also coming up it is expected to be

a rough weekend for german chancellor i'm going to delete key regional elections 2 german states are expected to boost the strength of the country's far right a s.t.t. . a man and a home free glad you could join me hong kong authorities are ramping up of a campaign against democracy activists this time targeting some of the most prominent figures among them protest leaders joshua walking and agnes choubey police arrested and then released earlier today and just a short while ago police detained 2 prominent pro-democracy norm a case that was part of an intensifying crackdown a protest movement this seen violent clashes hundreds of arrests and the recent arrival of fresh troops from china. emerging from court defiant. joshua wang 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 president she sending ships or using emergency orderless is not the way out we will continue our fight no matter how the our rest and 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 not yet been banned by authorities. police deny any link. with the allegation that we tie in our rest is totally false. or indeed the 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 an 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 the 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 gap in 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. and you don't use the pail is following the situation in hong kong for us and she sent us this is testament small protests like this one follow another man meant to stay in this protest movement these people are chanting 5 a freedom fighter for 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 has 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 protests is scrambling to find legal ways to circumvent the ban but there will be those who are still willing to take to the streets to mark 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 shot at chelsea in hong kong with their well those arrests are also being closely watched in other parts of the world and at a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers in helsinki to ask 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 folks

here and minister harvesters has anything to thank you definitely developments and you know kong especially for this last hour are extremely war and. 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 it appears the union but also include the nation with the member states federico any there will let's bring you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world based hour there's been huge rallies in pakistan to protest india's decision to strip the disputed region of kashmir over its special autonomous the status prime minister sharon can't condemn the move and called for an international response and pakistan has downgraded diplomatic ties and halted trade with india. a judge in scotland has rejected a bid to stop the british parliament from being suspended opponents say prime

minister boris johnson's move to shut down parliament is an undemocratic attempt to stifle debate in the final weeks pulled gregg's it which is currently due to happen on the 31st of october with or without a deal. now germany's far right political party v a f t or alternative for germany is expected to school big gains in 2 state elections coming up on sunday in saxony b a if a d. is polling just behind the center right c.d.u. the party of anglo-american things look even worse for the governing party in brandenburg the social democrats will talk to our correspondent in a moment of 1st this report on the political landscape in the key states of saxony and brown the. 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. 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 branded burgas 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 for. work flat out for 161820 hours a day so that the far right populist don't become the most powerful party here just like the coffee 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 a.f.d. 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 under the medical's 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 in bristol 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 and we 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 angular machall self declared final term and government because her coalition is suffering as we speak under that insecurity that decline of the social democrats who've been holding from them both 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 all the right wing populists of winning this election. will 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 in politics nobody wants to go into coalition with them at the same time they're 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. is and here's kind of it's the scene is very close to going head to who's also expected here today who's leader of the right wing extremist group ing within the a.f.p. and have bit by bit more and more about his past has come to light most recently that he was in neo nazi youth camp in 1903 he hadn't has volunteered any of that information in the past only confirm that when confronted by journalists so it's becoming apparent here that his father extremist history is a lot longer than people feel 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 mering at the polls which it certainly looks like in the state of saxony then the social democrat well series of nervous breakdowns could lead to

a chain of events that would probably take weeks and months here and really but still could threaten that very coalition called the so-called grand coalition under chancellor chief political editor for us in brandenburg good to have your analysis thanks. well at the venice film festival. currently underway in italy the inclusion of a film by director roman polanski is causing control the sea now his film an officer and a spy is screening this evening in the competition it's a period drama about the tray 1st effect the anti semitic persecution of a jewish army officer in 19th century france that critics say polanski's inclusion in the festival is out of touch in the era of the need to movement the director fled the united states from decades ago after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13 year old girl. oh we'll leave you now with

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