this is d.w. news live from berlin a dispute between germany and china as to late so for a hong kong democracy activists visit to berlin beijing summons the german ambassador after a meeting between joshua wong and germany's foreign minister in the german capital china is now she's in germany of meddling in its affairs. also coming up the killer diseases that are entirely preventable the world health organization sounds the alarm over declining vaccination rates worldwide. hundreds of nigerians back at

home after a spate of attacks on foreigners in south africa but with chronic unemployment in their homeland what does the future hold for them. and could we be a step closer to finding life in outer space for the 1st time scientists have to check to water on an earth like planet orbiting a distant star we ask what's this discovery might mean. i'm sumi so what's going to it's good to have you with us china has formally summoned the german ambassador to beijing after a meeting between the german foreign minister heikal moscow and the hong kong protest leader joshua wang in berlin this week and during his visit one called on the german government to publicly condemn police violence and abuse of power during the ongoing demonstrations in hong kong now in a direct attack on an important trade partner beijing is warning of negative

consequences for relations between china and germany. it was just 30 day in berlin he came to the german capital with a message for i'm going to mexico and other world leaders is a must for the chancellor pay attention to hong kong's protests and showed us a part to hong kong asian safeguard hong kong is not only the responsibility of hong kong people but also the responsibility for world leaders preferred hong kong to face the next tenement square masacre happened for a decade ago on monday wong met german foreign minister heiko must prompting shop criticism from beijing it summons germany's ambassador accusing but then of interfering in china as a fan as. the only goal. and see what happens no i'm fortunately have to say will have negative consequences on bilateral relations and china will have to react. to the. at berlin's home old

university just one packed tight 3 he had to his message was one have to finance and a strong belief in the power of the protest movement in his home city nowhere to youngster and elderly all we stand as one with our determination to fight for a better future. joshua one find many supporters in the german capital. i think it be that the jaw if you like it even at like a hero is that you just hear hear swear on this about it that he is the facilitator and he let the nose of the bottle to a person he's very impressive very brave and he's still very young. and find him particularly admirable because he's risking his life and freedom with his activism activism was just killed seeing josh i'm person. i think it's a huge motivation for people who are brought to come closer to. so be

motivated and follow closely to what is happening in our home city. many here tell us that concerned about joshua wong and what will happen to him when he returns to hong kong but 1st he's heading for the united states where he hopes to gain more support the hong kong's pro-democracy movement. all right let's get some analysis on all of this we have our chief political correspondent melinda crane here in berlin and our correspondent in hong kong good to see you both melinda let's start with you so how is the german government reacting to beijing's quite harsh criticism of the joshua ones visit. the foreign ministry rejected the criticism saying that it is perfectly normal procedure for the for the foreign minister to meet with a representative of civil society from another country and yesterday in her speech to parliament the chancellor said very clearly that human rights are indispensable to germany regard to the hong kong chinese tensions and that she had conveyed that

message on her visit to beijing last week she also said that germany absolutely stands by the principle of one land 2 systems when it comes to china and hong kong that said there is an element of caution here in berlin as well the chancellor herself has not met with joshua long and her spokesperson emphasized that this week and this visit by mr wong to berlin is not an official government sponsored visit in any way in fact it is the host of the visit is a german tabloid newspaper the boot sayto and it was a reception by that newspaper that was the place where the foreign minister met joshua when the joshua one did also hold a press conference here in berlin yesterday what more did he have to say. indeed he had 3 clear messages to the german government he said that he would like to hear a more direct public condemnation of the violence that's been used against

protesters and also of abuses of power he also said that he thinks the german government should stop selling equipment to the hong kong police as long as there is ongoing violence being used by the police in crowd control and thirdly he said that he thinks germany should tie to trade more closely to human rights for example possibly suspending trade with china or imposing sanctions and or inserting human rights causes into trade agreements with china so 3 very clear messages to the german government all right much yes let's come to you now and get beijing's perspective on all of this why is china so upset about this visit. beijing is extremely nervous about what's happening in hong kong the protests have gone into their 4th month no and they do not show any sign of dying out beijing the hong kong government have tried lots of things to scare away protesters

to suppress the movement to calm down the protests none of this has worked and these protests are now threatening to overshadow beijing celebrations of founding the seventy's and a verse 3 of the founding of the people's republic of china and that is something that is angering beijing of course beijing is trying to limit the space for its critics abroad it has been doing so for some years companies who have for example listed taiwan not as a province of china but as a separate entity have felt beijing's. to change their websites and printed materials and governments have also been under pressure not to meet with beijing's critics in 2005. with the dalai lama. was met was a diplomatic response and economic sanctions by the beijing government she has not met the dalai lama after and no other western leader is meeting the dalai lama has

been meeting the dalai lama in recent years and social long was now one of the most prominent critics of beijing is probably experiencing a similar thing pressure on foreign governments is mounting not to meet with him not to give his criticism a platform and some material you know what about this direct response from beijing that there could be consequences for ties between china and germany what could that mean. well it starts with diplomatic responses german deployments would not get appointments with senor officials or would hard to get appointments with senior officials not be invited to some events diplomatic events celebrations at cetera and it could go further sanctions on german companies or inspections that german companies suddenly face economic threats and in the end there could also be

a boy caught it has happened before north korea japan they all have experienced boycotts by the chinese public incited by the government on their companies however china at this moment needs germany in this critical period of the trade war with the united states and it is not likely that will escalate to the maximum at this moment but some at least diplomatic sanctions are probably going to be felt in the next few months all right our correspondents munda crain in berlin and there in hong kong thank you both very much. not some other stories making news around the world the body of zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe is lying in state at his private residence in harare well that his family says he will be buried next week in his home village and not at a national monument base where names arrived on wednesday from singapore where he

died at the age of 95. french customs officials have been testing their i.t. system to make sure it is ready for a possible no deal brags that the system is designed to avoid the buildup of long lines of trucks france says it is ready but is concerned about preparations on the british side of the english channel. and southeastern spain has been battered by severe rain and flash floods in the valencia region torrential rain causing no river to burst its banks flooding homes and forcing the evacuation of surrounding areas more extreme storms are expected in the coming hours. vaccination is one of the greatest successes of public health saving an estimated $2500000.00 lives every year but vaccination rates are on decline and that is leading to outbreaks of preventable diseases around the world it's a problem that will be addressed today by the global vaccination summit in brussels

the event is being hosted by the european commission and the world health organization. not too long ago laughter filled this fisherman's family home in madagascar but now the family is trying to cope with their grief they lost 3 children in january due to a measles infection they couldn't afford to vaccinate them. they had gone and it was all goes we'll but we didn't expect that they might die if they didn't get vaccinated that the fact that they were not vaccinated would kill them. madagascar is struggling to contain its worst outbreak of measles in decades amid a desperate shortage of vaccines the highly contagious illness increases susceptibility to other diseases and can cause blindness brain swelling and death so far over 1200 people have died in the epidemic most of them children. and madagascar is not alone worldwide many countries are reporting an unprecedented

rise of measles many of these cases could have been easily prevented with vaccination but like madagascar our some countries simply don't have access to the vaccines they need. and in high income countries where they are available some people opt to not vaccinate themselves and their children. they wrongly believe that vaccines are harmful there are absolutely families communities people who are subject to misinformation they have the wrong information about not only the disease severity and the risks of disease they don't understand the truth of the matter but they also have misinformation about the effectiveness of vaccines and the safety of vaccines and we do see misinformation as an increasing threat. the so-called anti vax movement fears that

vaccines are unsafe ineffective and produce serious side effects saying that they can even cause autism scientists say there is no evidence for any of that. yet the misinformation is gaining momentum on social media now health professionals and governments are looking for solutions including making vaccinations mandatory and imposing fines on parents who refuse in madagascar are over 7000000 children have been vaccinated in an emergency response parents here are happy that vaccinations are available again many know what losing a child to measles feels like and hope they never have to endure such grief ever again. and for more on the story we can speak to peter selema an executive director of the world health organization and he is at the global vaccination summit in

brussels peter thank you very much for joining us here on d w why is access to vaccination still such a big issue. well it's such a big issue because there's a tragedy here on one hand you've got this opportunity of one of the most safe and cost effective health services that survey invented that's ever been available on the other hand globally there are $20000000.00 children around the world that are missing out including $13000000.00 children they get 0 doses of any vaccine during their life so this is the opportunity that we have to not be complacent but to save more lives including here in europe with with that same thing we just saw that an increasing number of people do have access but they actually decided against vaccinations and they're at the summit you're actually working on fighting the spread back scene misinformation how are you planning to do that. so there's 22 major issues there those countries that simply children don't have

access because they're conflict affected and is about 20 countries like that where we just really need to focus and sure basic access to vaccine you know the health services but then there's a growing phenomenon that you referred to of vaccine people choosing when they could otherwise have the vaccine not to have it and what we're doing is some really innovative work with face groups with interest with instagram to really use those platforms to make sure that people can make the best informed choice but to stop the questioning because questioning is very healthy but actually to make sure that people have access to authority sources and they have the best information when mothers and fathers make that decision of whether to vaccinate or not all right peter from the world health organization joining us from brussels thank you very much. you're watching news still to come it's 111 light years away from earth and it's up sponsible candidates in the search for alien life

more on what's being called a mind blowing discovery coming up in just a few minutes. the 1st nigerians evacuated from south asked. i have arrived back in the country hundreds of nigerians signed up for free free flights home after a wave of violence against foreigners in south africa but while there is relief at having escaped many say they are uncertain what the future holds for them at home he is funny for char was one of the 1st international correspondents to meet the return nice at the airport in lagos here's her report. slowly and with a long delay it finally arrives the airplane from johannesburg. and some officials are waiting for the passengers to disembark. this is the 1st machine from south africa with nigerian rhetoric the 1st since anti immigrant violence erupted in and around your hand last week now that the nigerians are back what does the future

hold for that. warm welcome to begin with but a lot of uncertainty to this woman that south africa after 7 years because of the xenophobic attacks she says she has brought her child with her prince michael. so. what's the plan for the future and what are you hoping to forge ahead probably find a job graduating if only. hours earlier and just outside of the airport the usual hustle in lagos nigeria is facing chronic unemployment especially among its youth just like south africa this young man studied to be an accountant but can only survive repairing cars he believes the future is bleak for the returning. few so sorry for them because.

they don't have any. for us. we are going to start. a question that a senior assistant of president bihari is eager to answer the government has been criticised for not doing enough for the returning a private airline chose to volunteer to bring some of them home one of the major problems we see in this situation is communication so they're going to have sim cards with time that will last there for 2 months that is not what these people want to hear 189 people arrive on the 1st plane tired exhausted and confused expecting more from the government. to provide some. electricity. you understand me. very basic means to start

a business like they had in south africa were they could make a living but would they no longer feel. that scientists have made a major discovery in the search for life in outer space take a look at this animation here it shows a massive planet orbiting a star more than 110 light years away and water vapor has been discovered on the planet's atmosphere now that suggests that it is the right distance from its star potentially to have temperatures that are suitable to sustain life researchers hope that newer and more powerful telescopes will be able to unlock a more secrets beyond our solar systems. and we have derrick williams from d.w. science with us to break this story down for us hi derek how were researchers able to detect this you know i hear this question all the time i mean it's a really long way away you said over 110 light years and a light year is 9.5 trillion kilometers so if you do the math it's

a very great distance what they do is basically they while they're examining the star they can detect whether or not there is an exoplanet there or if it's large enough by checking it as it's going through what's called transition which is when it crosses across the face of the star as the star is facing towards earth and that causes it to get slightly less light at that moment it casts a faint shadow of course some of the light that is moving past the planet if it has not miss fear actually enters the atmosphere of the planet and moves on towards earth the atmosphere weeds out certain electromagnetic radiation certain frequencies and we can then see that as a fingerprint we can see actually what's in the atmosphere on that planet in spite of the fact that it's so very very far away and they found liquid water why is that important when liquid water is one of the is one of the fundamental basic things that you have to have as far as we know in order to have life now now the planets this particular planet if it has liquid water which we believe it does is in what's

called the habitable zone that's the orbit around a star which is not too hot not too cold they call it also the goldilocks zone and that means because if that if the planet is too close to the star then the water that's on the planet and its atmosphere will simply boil away or it'll you'll have something like venus with us from a runaway greenhouse effect if it's that's what has and if it's too far away then the water leaves the atmosphere and ends up as ice on the surface of the planet so if you have liquid water that indicates that there's a water system in place and possibly even something like weather and so that would be a very very important step toward saying ok possibly there's life is that that's my next question is is it possible to have human life there well. 1st of all interstellar travel is a long we're a long way away from making that happen but say that one day in the far distant future we actually did manage to to travel out into the universe and start to try to populate other planets this probably wouldn't be one of the planets that we would want to go to simply because of the fact that it's 9 times more massive than

the earth us of the gravity would be absolutely crushing that said however it doesn't mean necessarily that other forms of life might not have evolved there already very interesting stuff there dark williams from d.w. science thank you. sports now and the baseball european championship continues in germany this week with a crunch game for the hosts they face italy in the quarter finals a match where they are the underdogs on home soil but the tournament is about more than success for germany the team hopes the buzz can help them build a bigger following. baseball fever is the law even bought germany is currently hosting the european championships and the home side are looking to make the sport more popular domestically german american infielder every break is among those hoping to capitalize on the increased attention. from it we have a good tournament we have a lot of good players a lot of young players watching we're getting a lot of press as well all of that together means that baseball can definitely grow

its profile come. to congress what we've overcome to break is on home turf for the championship it's on a man is taking place at the grounds of his home club capitals 12 teams are fighting for the european title the best 5 are then off to italy where they'll be joined by the african champion to battle it out for on the lympics baseball is back at tokyo 2020 after a 12 year absence at the gate. belgian steve jansen the manager of the germany team has got a ticket to tokyo in his sights 1st of all our main goal is to reach the last 5 to be able to go to the olympic qualifier by the time we get the final 5 obviously we try to get higher and higher olympic hopes are one thing but brink and his teammates are also here for the fun of the sport not the paycheck. of

the resort and i've always said that i'll just play regardless of whether i get paid i'm here because i'm passionate. if he can pass his passion on to a few of the spectators in bonn then brink has achieved one major goal of this whole new tournament. now when you're proud of what you've achieved in life sometimes you just want to shout it out from the rooftops well that's precisely what some homeowners are doing in india as 1000 jobs state here's more on their crowning glory. their larger than life a bit bizarre and a little showy in this village in the indian state of punjab there are all kinds of statues including a tank a boat i can't go and there are many many airplanes but it seems the bigger they are the better. talk sing owns the largest he rented out as a party venue he's loved planes ever since he migrated to england at the age of 16

. then he worked in a factory to earn enough money to build a villa back in punjab. we've been jobbies a famous for working hard. no matter where in the world we happened to be we're always successful and we like to show it everyone here is me for my success. those who still live here anyhow but there aren't too many left almost every rooftop statue represents a story of migration their owners left to look for a better life elsewhere in europe and the usa or for example many here dream of travelling hence the local love of airplanes most people living in punjab are followers of the sikh religion even in the sikh temples there are plenty of planes the faithful here pray for safety while travelling for family

members already overseas. but what's the point of all these statues when no one's around anymore to see them sign talk sings wife by shan would rather be with their grandchildren in england they love the opening my. husband has always done what he wanted to. i've always just followed his wishes. we come out here for a month or so twice a year. when the children and i say let's just stay in england he just doesn't listen. in a few days' time sun talks single bought a real airplane and head back to birmingham his rooftop will be empty again but remain a symbol of his financial success and of a life lived on 2 continents. are let's get a reminder now of our top story here in d w beijing has summoned the german ambassador after the konkani to marci activist joshua long that germany's foreign minister. beijing's accusing germany of meddling in its affairs and has warned that

the meeting in berlin will hurt of chinese german elections. coming up next our show focus on europe we're looking at how people in northern ireland are losing their patience as the rocky road to bret's it drags on stage and for that.

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