political crisis would be demonstrators have been warned against defying this weekend's ban today hong kong authorities detained and then released key figures in the pro-democracy movement meanwhile china watches and waits and warns against trying its patience i'm in berlin this is the day. we show. we. just. want to advise every citizen. because we will respond with president action. we will not tolerate any violent act.

every. day with. a premiere at the venice film festival critics say they should not be showing a work by roman polanski because of the bad actors conviction for sexual abuse but the film's producer says we need to move on and focus on the ott. past is in the past but we need to focus on the present the film speaks for itself the jury must judge and the public if they want can applaud that's it. says in hong kong ramped up their campaign against pro-democracy activists today police arrested and then released on bail protest leaders joshua. some

pro-democracy legislators were also arrested today and 12 weeks of protests have since violent clashes hundreds of arrests and security personnel arriving in the territory from china protest organizers have not called off a mass demonstration planned for this weekend because of at least but activists say the struggle will continue we will keep on fighting for democracy and. retraction. and independence. and also the most important thing is the. democratic political system i urged international communities who sent a clear man station to a president sending or using emergency orders is not the way out we will continue our fight no matter how the process. so whether the protests go from here i'm

joined from new york by hong kong pro-democracy activist nathan knoll. reporter who's from hong kong welcome both let's start with you in new york nathan are these protests still. suspended extradition bill. well of course the demands from the protesters are very player one of them also is about the through withdrawal of the bill but i think one of the most important one is to ground on con democracy and as well as being promised by beijing to our complete people and by getting democracy worker great checks and balances of government and preserve our high autonomy. that's up quite an ask isn't it what makes you think china is going to allow hong kong fall autonomy that was never part of the deal. well autonomy is part of the deal when beijing tech when beijing got the

sovereignty back of on call in 1907 they promised hong kong people to have high degree of autonomy in hong kong people ruling hong kong so in the serious of protests lasting for around 3 months one of the core demands of the people who are used to getting democracy getting autonomy i think is a really legitimately money pressuring government so what does change what is about the system of democracy that pertains in hong kong now that is different that you see as being worse than it has been previously. well hong kong is never been well democratic city. for the past few years think roshan on liberty and the rights of election has been. for example there are several legislators including me and the chinese intension who were forcefully and seated.

political prisoners well in these 3 recent years and more and more people who participate peaceful demonstration also persecuted so this new years of encroaching on oil liberty really wrote our will on country to system and high degree of autonomy and it is what the the resort the reasons why people come out and protest. and use today we've been talking about their arrests not only of protest leaders but also of pro-democracy lawmakers many people this is a we're now into i think the 13th week tomorrow this is the 13th weekend of potential protests lots of people are looking at this and wondering why has it taken the hong kong is so long to crack down like this and what staying china's hand so well let's start 1st with withholds the hong kong authorities right so it has not been a tradition far hong kong authorities to crack down on pro-democracy not make us

for example or activists in china it may be more common but after all hong kong it's being governed under one country to a system we have a very different justice system we have independent laws and we have always enjoyed a certain degree of freedom freedom of speech freedom of media so to crackdown on pro-democracy activists it's not that common in ok so that's not it's tolerance of dissent how much longer do you think they will allow this to go on it's really hard to say for certain how much longer. and it's very clear that. what the hong kong people are going now it's starting to step on the red line the chinese government has and you can see that for example today they have been arresting a lot of lawmakers and activists and it really shows that china is being very

impatient about this and we are presuming that the crackdown is as a result of pressure from china oh yeah that that for sure that's for sure ok so nation law one of the 5 demands for quite interesting it's that the use of the word riots is withdrawn in relation to the protesting why do you regard that as being important given the violent confrontations that we have seen between the protesters and the police. well obviously the demands of was made in early june which there was a protest taken place on the are. told of june that the police had fired rubber bullets and so for leave the arms to the protesters when the protests the words completely peaceful and their origin of that demand and the reason why people wanted to the government were strong the cancer grow station of

that is the government has been abusing an ordinance that was made in the congo only your time to really restrict our work freedom protest and freedom demonstration and by doing so by labeling these protesters as brides they could charge people and set them to jail forgive me for interrupting but but now we are in the situation where we have seen the t.v. pictures we have see. police attacked in their vans we have seen police attacked with scaffolding poles so do you still want the these these demonstrators this would riot to dropped or if you moved on from that. well of course this is one of the fights the man's own is cross and his core value is to get the police violence to calm down and also get them to really look into the well what's happening in the society and the structural problems so if you don't care about the

government has been stigmatizing the movement saying that it may be late composed by violent protesters that is not true. what sort of let's talk about the terraces treif chief executive kerry kerry. what sort of future awaits her will brazing replace her for allowing this to happen or will it keep her in place to show that it's it's not going to be bossed around it's actually very unlikely at this stage that she will be replaced because if agent would have allowed it would have allowed it only away earlier when the protest started and now for beijing it's more or less a problem of losing face they cannot let her step that they cannot let the world see that china is actually fairly are there have been actually compromising with the protests so she gets to stay for

a final word to you made some little knowing that china has these enormous resources standing by ready to crush you once they decide enough is enough why do you keep going or is very obvious that if they crush on kong china will suffer goes on calm play is a. very crucial factors in home in china's economy and is the main gate way to getting money in a money out and providing providers you know surfaces for like the bell and low risk initiatives so for china they have caused. to shut down so i think their calculation is that balance and i think hong kong people rebel eventually mason law in new york thank you debbie reporter john thank you. and now to the venice film festival which began on wednesday its running to control visit by premiering roman polanski's latest film office under spike is about

france's notorious 19th century political scandal the dreyfus affair it was only festival interview mr polanski can pass himself through his films hero captain alpha dreyfus was persecuted for being a jew in 1977 from france he was convicted of the statutory rape of a 13 year old girl in the united states he fled to france to avoid prison he faced controversy you have a sense the name roman polanski has become a byword of male abuse of power in the film industry are beyond well despite the controversy the festival's director alberto barbera was unrepentant the only criteria i can use selecting a finn is the quality of whether he meets and i don't think that any other concerns should be sued to the selection process. to get more from us answers and statements journalistic k.j. matthews welcome k.j. what do you think should roman polanski have been invited. you know it's such an

interesting question that you raise roman polanski has been an outsider in hollywood for more than 40 years well before this week to movement swept into hollywood and he has been saying for very very very many years now that what has happened it's happened so long ago that even the young lady that you perpetrated this sexual assault against has said that she has forgiven him everyone is forgiven him except hollywood and that he just wants people to judge him on the basis of his films and that's beginning to be very very difficult however i really think that the biggest film festival is is sending a message to the world by allowing his film to be viewed there with they're really saying is that need to may have taken over hollywood and perhaps other film countries around the world but in italy they are not going to let hollywood dictate

to him what is art and when are is important and i think this sends a clear message even though roman polanski did not appear for the film's premiere there are his films that he could. there are you know he's kind of in the back it almost like some of the other people that are here in hollywood nick parker had one of his films debut there you may recall couple years ago he was in trouble for a young lady taking or and said that she was aware that he had sexually assaulted someone in college and ever since dear his career is kind of tanked and now he's resurfacing it's been a skill level and i think that roman polanski would not have lasted all the years if he was in the good film he simply wouldn't see reason to push him aside because he has such a bad reputation for incident that happened more than 40 years ago but it is because he is a great filmmaker he does put provocative art out and people want to see that

despite some of the things that he's been accused of doing which is always going to be a difficult issue this is this notion of. displacing the person from the work from both sides of this argument because i think it's difficult for instance for female actresses who rightly demand to be judged on the course of their work but they still collaborate in the go so-called of parading along a red carpet in a way that few men would or indeed would be expected to. you're absolutely right but you know within the last year or so i don't know if you recall but many women have launched something with a hash tag spank the saying basically ask me more many of these women are asking these designers address them to donate money to various causes that they no longer want to just walk the carpet where dressed in diamonds that are worth more than a $1000000.00 look pretty take a picture or go home they know that they have an image to a whole but they also want to do something to give back and help people who are

less fortunate circumstances and they just don't want to be a poster girl of only being able to read lines like the red carpet go home they want the world to know they're more than that they're really tired of it they want people to ask them more introspective deep questions and i don't know if you recall the screen actors guild in a couple of the other award shows last year talked about the me too movement and talked about time's up and war rivets so that people that would come up to them and ask them questions well ask them why are you wearing this ribbon why are you being involved with the time's up initiative what do you think about me to this happening in hollywood what about gender parity and salaries and inequality so there is a push to get stars particularly female stars on the red carpet to do more and say more happening here in hollywood ok so them being very wants to do more but is it working are they being asked these questions or are they still being off you know nice dress or who did it. right that still happens you're never going to be able to

get rid of glitz and glamour and fashion in hollywood that isn't going anywhere i think what is happening is that now people are doing more and asking more and with the times up initiative here in hollywood people are holding people accountable you still have people who are being pushed out of office is not as people are accusing them of sexual harassment or sexual assault so we're still doing the remnants of that i mean look at harvey weinstein is is back in the news so it's still happening it's still slow but i will say you are starting to see a backlash now and saying that not everyone that is accused is guilty or thank the needle has shifted k.j. mothers' in los angeles thank you thank you. nice latin america on the struggle to deal with the high rates of violence against women that in some countries the more than 50 percent of married women say they are survivors of violence perpetrated by the husbands one city north of mexico's

responding with special police teams you don't use that i told sys a visit to quit dot quartus and the u.s. on the u.s. border and sent us this report. on a yearly particle is a policewoman in the mexican border city of what if. she's part of a special task force designed to eliminate domestic abuse but i believe we responded to imagine sequel this week at least a dozen of them in a single shift they were short of. the 1st order of the day is interviewing witnesses what is has a 1000000 residents and the highest rates of violence against women in all of mexico over 100 women were murdered here last year alone and yet he suffered domestic violence at the hands of her ex-boyfriend so she has a special sensibility toward other abuse survivors such as this 15 year old girl whose partner is 17. with this gift of every level of argued about his behavior

he's very aggressive suddenly started beating me up pulling my hair and strangling me. by the time and yelling and her colleagues arrived he's long gone the officers can't arrest the offender but they take time to talk with the survivors making sure their children are safe and explaining the women's legal rights. here. we have to make it clear to the women that they've just experienced a crime that they are victims of a cycle of violence in their families and that they need psychological attention to help them get out of the situation. it's our job to empower than. those employed outlook besides identifying suspects and he advises women who want to report their husbands to the police every day. women under threat in what is can also turn to a leader. who founded

a shelter for those fleeing domestic abuse. 11 women are currently living here with their children. but also feel that the women here are simply exercising their legal rights by seeking prosecution. of him but will put some investigations can take up to 6 years that means offenders are free to commit violence against women in that time. i want to move that meanwhile and he is preparing for her next shift as a policewoman she always hopes to prevent the worst but she can't always do that with them somewhere in what has a woman is murdered every other day. of the world will commemorate the start of one of the darkest chapters in bomb history on september the 1st 1939 nazi germany invaded poland a group that began world war 2 so let's take a look back at what unfolded in poland decades ago. i think in the

early hours of september 1st 1939 the german battleships because stein attacked a polish ammunition depo and down sick now known as be done sgt they were the opening shots of world war 2. german bombers also destroyed via a town in western poland of no strategic importance 1200 civilians were killed in the van months 1st war crime shortly afterwards the german army crossed the polish border a scene re-enacted for these propaganda pictures the previous evening as s. troops wearing polish uniforms had staged an attack on a german radio station hitler used this as a pretext to invade poland by. german troops also attacked the polish post office and don sic the siege lasted 15 hours

most of the defenders were shot dead after a german court martial. but hitler resent bishan went far beyond poland he wanted to conquer europe and oppose his racist nazi ideology on the entire continent. the early weeks of the conflict saw war crimes committed against polish civilians. poland's allies britain and france declared war on germany but they were not prepared to intervene militarily. and there was no help from moscow the soviet union had given nazi germany and almost free hand germany and the soviets had publicly agreed on a non-aggression pact and secretly made a deal to carve up eastern europe between the 2 dictatorships. now long after the german invasion of poland the soviet union moved in from the east poland's fate was

sealed when german forces and the red army met at the agreed demarcation line. well now there are growing demands in poland for germany to pay reparations worth several $1000000000.00 euros as compensation for the devastation the country caused the topics likely to be right germany's delegation visits warsaw on sunday for commemorations the question of reparations caused tension between germans and poles . who are so old town a few days before the 80th anniversary of the start of the 2nd world war. walk through every day on his way home from work the 29 year old german has lived in poland for 5 years he actively supports german polish economic cooperation but he didn't expect this particular debate topic to resurface. i was surprised when i heard about poland's demands for german reparations and i was seriously shocked when i saw that many of my friends young poles who don't

sympathise with the government saying that they could understand why the government wants this. why they feel that germany has not yet dealt sufficiently with what they did to poland. 50 times more old town is a symbol of german guilt the city was completely destroyed during the 2nd world war and then rebuilt without any help from germany. and now after almost 80 years berlin is being handed the bill a parliamentary committee has been working on a draft for the government so they can finally put this topic to rest even though for decades they have already considered it closed. and doesn't like the fact we're talking about reparations we understand that. but for us. it is an important topic. at the moment we are still calculating the exact

reparations we want to present this to berlin very soon. but berlin doesn't seem open to this presentation so far they don't even want to talk about it the topic is considered legally closed. in the government hasn't even sent us an official message that if they do then the legal situation requires that we return to the treaties of not in $53.00 and the 2 plus 4 treaty of 993 the law considers these claims as regulated than they have for nonexistent or. in fact in 1953 communist poland renounced reparations for the then communist east germany so berlin suggested symbolic gestures instead here for example in the middle of the city there are plans for a memorial site for polish victims of the german occupation during world war 2 to be built. the young german living in warsaw actively supports this idea he believes

that such political gestures could make the upcoming historical debate easier on guns with you i think this would be a very important sign of compassion. it would be a symbol of empathy for the poles and a sign that we as germans should never forget what happened. this is a vision this is and this is why i will be here. sunday when the presidents of poland and germany remember the 80th anniversary of the german invasion. well the base may be done but the composition continues on law you know. so i will go i'm going to.

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