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the world. don't burn 2 systems. starts october any. claim . this is due to the news live from burlesque violence escalates in hong kong as tens of thousands of protesters defying a ban on demonstrations on china's national day and police shoot a demonstrator at close range. the unrest comes as china puts on a massive show of military might to mark 70 years of communist world president xi jinping says no power on earth can halt the advance of the chinese nation. also
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coming up a country and a world that no longer exist communist east germany seems to be nearly 3 decades ago but now 2 documentary filmmakers are bringing the past back to life for a new generation. and a look ahead to tonight's champions league action byron's robertson dostie is and top form but the tottenham zone superstar harry came lying in wait and topic showdown is on the cards and must. play. play. i'm serious oh my god thank you for joining us. pro-democracy protests in hong kong marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of china have turned violent one protester is in the hospital after being shot in the chest by police now a video appears to show the moment that a police officer fired his handgun at close range the protester was treated on the
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scene before being taken to the hospital his condition is unknown it is the most serious incident in months of demonstrations in hong kong today's anti china china rally started peacefully with thousands marching in the streets before some started throwing molotov cocktails demonstrators also threw eggs at a portrait of chinese president xi jinping. and let's go to diffuse charlotte shall some pill she's standing by for us and hong kong where she's been covering the protests for us hi charlotte good to see you what is the reaction there been to this a shooting and has it somehow you know ruin this celebration for china and hong kong. the shooting here is with news of the shooting sent shock waves across 'd the street here just want to let you know just the boys that you might be hearing behind me is fire way that has been a lot of tear gas in this area but it is by way to not in celebration of this 70th
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anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china rather is just another form the phrase as another demonstration of the unity felt among people here the resistance among people back on the street fight of all of the violence that we've seen here today and this is the cool in spite of the news of that shooting that you mentioned the young man 18 years old we're hearing he was shot at close range by a police officer off to stop police with police he is in hope so we understand that he is in a critical condition now where i am at the moment people clearly as you can see on its head they are back on the streets many of them dressed in black. because this day has been called a day of mourning not a celebration not celebrating the 70th anniversary a day of mourning a day of grief they are here on the streets many of them a building barricades we've seen people throwing molotov cocktails here as well the protesters here and not leaving the streets any time soon what are protesters there
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been telling you about how important it was for them to defy this ban on protests specifically today which is china's national day. protests is that we've been speaking to over the last few days have been making clear that they want to save energy for today they wanted today to be the big day masses of people coming onto the streets and i think that he will be seen within tens of thousands of people of all ages on the streets all day today the reason that they tell us for them wanting to come out today in particular is because they know the eyes of the world will be watching them they know everyone here everyone would like to know how hong kong will be responding to this landmark anniversary that's being celebrated in beijing they want to send a very strong message to the world watching that they are angry and that their demands have not yet been met that is the reason they are back on the streets today they also want to send a very very different images to the celebrations that are happening in beijing and
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that is exactly what has happened it's so cool it's been a concern for most already here that all these protests with up stage was going on in beijing and with the violent so far it appears to be the case those are precisely some of the messages that we ourselves heard from protesters who we spoke to a little bit earlier in the day let's listen to that now 2. so one thing i got to i think the hong kong people going to be fully involved if you don't go out today probably you would have a very last chance or you could go out after after so. let's look at what happened in the last 100 days or so we're seeing that all of the freedom of getting a lot less time to pull so i feel like today whether it was a national day or anything we have to come out we. we don't want to be another china city because of the government and the hong kong police who don't want the hong kong people to go out today but i think the basic moral protest that is our right so we want to fight for our own right and freedom and we don't want to
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see this today we re come to say to warsaw there's. no. criminal. city sensing your home you just fight for freedom stand with hong kong. ok so charlotte there clearly a message there of solidarity. and looks like we are having some technical difficulties actually charlottesville simple our reporter on the ground there in hong kong we are no longer able to reach or obviously a very fluid situation there on the ground will try to talk to a little bit later let's move on now meanwhile as we mentioned china is staging huge celebrations to mark a 70 years of communist rule the people's republic of china has changed beyond all recognition since it was founded 7 decades ago after a bitter civil war with nationalists and today president xi jinping said china's development would be peaceful but its military would safeguard its sovereignty and security. strength discipline and vision
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this was the message from a state that has defied the odds for 70 years on tuesday the world's longest surviving communist nation celebrated its achievements on a grand scale standing where chairman mao proclaimed the people's republic in 1949 president struck a combative note. today a socialist china is standing proudly in the world's east. and no force can change the position of our great motherland and no force can stop the chinese people and the chinese nation from stepping forward. the spectacle that followed was designed to highlight china's rise from a nation in despair to a global superpower. at the forefront of that newfound confidence
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a display of military might on a massive scale advanced weaponry including nuclear capable mistrials rumbling through beijing. the event comes at a crucial time growth is slowing as the trade war with the u.s. takes its toll on the economy and calls for more democracy grow louder both in hong kong and among the middle classes in mainland china and we have nice could back with us he's a researcher at the macarthur institute for china studies here in berlin thank you for joining us those are some pretty impressive pictures that we're seeing at this huge celebration taken place in beijing today what message is china sending with this parade at home well i think as always with these massive parades. wealth and power and unity this time also very much so she's a ping is really trying to show that he is firmly in charge of a military society you know trying to protect its. and build up
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production capacity also to differ in just. a region so it's really a show of force who is that show force to i mean is that for the chinese people are they as well celebrating this day well i think it's fair to say that the chinese people are they have reason to celebrate i mean they have been the ones who have built the nation they're creating the wealth that is showcased now the show of force military and leadership i think really also goes to the entire inside the leadership that sees it being a cemented his rule and he's trying to show that we saw the pictures that are also happening right now in hong kong as protesters continue to defy beijing and this is a bit of you know a black eye for beijing and it has been going on for several months how long will and can china tolerate those types of images especially on this national day well hong kong certainly hits china on a sore spot it has china has been really hard and developing this picture of
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china's rise as a peaceful one you know china's a benevolent giant rising and hong kong is a sore spot because it cannot china cannot really go in. you know direct intervention or kill a forces in the streets of hong kong is certainly the last resort those are pictures that would be very detrimental to the picture china's been in trying to build so what can it do as we see china celebrate its might. well in hong kong i think it has been doing what is what it does best so it's you know a back door diplomacy and to channeling through the administration on current and also reinforcing the forces in hong kong so i mean those are offensive and closed actions that i think is the way they will go coming back to china and the country celebrating 70 years of communist rule do you think we will continue to see the government the party flex its muscles had been going forward i
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think it's pretty safe to say that china will continue to try to show that is in charge of its region i mean the chinese interests and safety are growing the footprint of china is increasingly large southeast asia in east asia and south asia so they are certainly trying to project power and protect the interests of trying to increase and you know we heard jim ping say no country on earth can stop the advance of the chinese nation is that true. well that's a that's a bit of a bet for me to say yes or no answer but i think china really has at least feeling that it now has come to the very top it's a great power on par with the u.s. and the other great powers and i mean the show is the right is certainly. a way to show this all right from the marketer institute for china studies merrick's out here in it for you and thank you. let's get a round up now of some other stories making news around the world a bridge crossing a bay in taiwan has collapsed smashing onto boats more below
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a truck carrying oil plummeted from the bridge into the water at least 10 people have been injured and rescue teams are searching for survivors. nigerian police say they have freed 19 pregnant women and girls from a so-called baby factory the victims were allegedly abducted and great so that their captors could sell their babies to women suspects were taken into custody in the raid in the capital lagos. police in finland say one person has been killed and another 10 wounded during an attack on a vocational school in the east of the country early reports say a man with a sword like weapon burst into a classroom in the school and a school rather in co-op yo officers fired shots as they arrested the suspect democrats in the u.s. house of representatives are stepping up the pressure on president donald trump as they move closer towards impeachment proceedings they've now issued subpoenas against his personal lawyer rudy giuliani trump's dealings with 2 foreign leaders
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are also in the spotlight. the story starts to seem all too familiar democrats say that new allegations point to yet another cover up by the trumpet ministration according to the u.s. justice department in may this year trump asked the australian prime minister scott morrison to help discredit form a special counsel robert miller's russia investigation miller let the probe into trump's alleged ties to russian interference into 2016 u.s. presidential election it's alleged the transcript of the call of with australia's morrison was withdrawn as it was with another call from trump to ukraine's president followed him into selenski yes i know the. trump insists he's done nothing wrong i made a call the call was for when the whistleblower report to the very center of.
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this 2nd case of trump allegedly trying to enlist the help of a foreign leader for his own purposes can only add more fuel to the fire already being fanned by the democrats. let's get more on that story now did abuse alexander phenomenon is in washington hi alexandra what does this mean for the ongoing impeachment process. well for the democrats this phone call is a new. example of for the president to use his office to use high diplomacy talks high level diplomacy talks to advance his personal political interests however with regards to the impeachment inquiry we have to say that the democrats prefer to concentrate on the ukraine and the phone call the president had with the ukrainian president because they want to stay on message they want to have a clear result
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a clear message to the american public and they want to be finished by things giving but this is not the 2nd phone call that we know of were the democrats at least say that president trump misused his position for political gain do we know if more of these types of calls exist. well in this incident president trump made in phone calls with international leaders at the beginning of his presidency the white house moved on to restrict the access to those phone calls to reduce the number of aids that were allowed to be present of those phone calls so it's really not known yet if there could be more phone calls on that issue and think that it's important that we have to mention it that there were meetings were attorney general william barr traveled across europe on behalf of president trump and held talks with british and tell you and intelligence officers urging them to help the
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ministrations to discredit them all or probe and that of course shows how obsessed president trump if i may use this word is with discrediting the russian probe alexander coming back to this impeachment inquiry we heard the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying he would have no choice but to consider articles of impeachment if the house approved them so what are the chances that we could see it come to that. well 1st of all we of course have to say that the impeachment inquiry has just started and it started and we have to wait and see what the results will be however if it's going to be confirmed what we know so far if we are going to see even more evidence for the president's wrongdoing it is likely that statement of the democrats will move forward to vote on the impeachment
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and in the house of representatives they just need a simple majority however off to death the senate would have to. convict and impeachment president with the 2 thirds supermajority and we know that the senate is in the hands of the republicans and at the moment this seems rather unlikely that that could happen and all. of these alexander phenomena in washington thank you. very much in return now to our top story of the ongoing protests in hong kong as china marks 70 years of communist rule and our correspondent joining us on the line now charlotte we tried to speak to a little bit earlier that line broke up because you had to move and we understand there is a lot of movement on the ground right now tell us what's been happening. fact read read read read read read. read i'm never coming from different i don't go there trying to put you through reading them. i'm going to.
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read my i have found that in france my practice of people gathered around found. my mentors that i remembered them through the snow let them know. that the present . time. pattison or that i'm. a member of. any of them. that machine. isn't going to measure the crime i'm kind of. all right a developing situation there on the ground in hong kong our correspondent charlotte shelf until bringing us up to date thank you charlotte now in just over a month germans will mark 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall and the eventual collapse of coming to see storming the country will be remembered for
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killing people who tried to escape shooting them dead at the berlin wall and elsewhere it is famous for the stasi secret police as well but it was also a place where many people lead normal day to day lives now 2 filmmakers have curated hours of home video to offer a glimpse of that past. personal memories recorded in a country that no longer exists. these home movies capture assigned of the former germany most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers alberto herskovitz political scientist lawrence murphy. the 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click
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keywords in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 east german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anyone in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dictatorship. and we have one of the curators at the open memory box project with us has the 5th has joined us here in our studio. this is really interesting this project what were you looking to achieve with this where we really understood that this was a big treasure but it all began with the hope to find some media that would help us to talk to people about their experience in germany beyond. the black and why thinking. that everything was bad and not only that but also western
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used to look upon each other in a way that i felt. i was astonished i was surprised that there were still so much tension going so we wanted to talk about the live from the g.d.r. and really this polarized at its roots. prevent the people over a membrane things and there are these super 8 footage came along as a medium to trigger memories that could time travel into the past it's more than 400 hours of really home video footage what you think we learned about everyday life in the former east germany well if you look at the footage what you see is what people actually do or people around the world do you are you you care about your beloved ones the children your hoarded troops or the daily life. normal kind of activities that i think when you when you when you when you dive into this footage and this is into the throat there you realize of the differences
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on a very big i mean we all the same we care about the same things yes comparable to our have in the west maybe would have focused on more expensive luxury goods and more fancy cars and so but in the end we're all the same it has been 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall there have been other important key landmark anniversaries of course since the berlin wall fell so why now why did you find it was important to bring this project that i think that the last decade everybody the media was so research focused on very very important questions. stasi the control room. the problem with the economy i mean a lot of a lot of important topics and i think now maybe it's the 1st time that we have reached a moment in history. that allows to to look at what actually happened in
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the g.d.r. when it comes to to the private gaze the private you you mentioned that in a western east they used to look down at each other and this is an issue that we're still talking about the divide between the former west and the former east of course and do you think that this project could help bring people together very much hope so because we believe that this problem the tension between the east investors something something that is a result of or distance and also of a lack of knowledge and we hope that these images would help people to see that life in the east was very much a human story and just before you go were there any offers that you had to turn down in terms of these videos that you collected no no no no we did this everything received to be digitized and put online of course i mean we should curate intent when it comes to nudity and so but in general it's sort of it's all there it's all open very interesting the open memory box project has give it's one of the curators
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of this project thank you for joining us thank you very much. now the italian capital rome has been plagued by a garbage crisis in recent months trash is going on collected due to inefficiency and corruption but the city's transport authorities found a solution turning trash into tickets travelers can exchange 30 plastic bottles for a pass on rome's metro system recycling machines have been placed in 3 train stations with more to be added across the network romas the 1st european capital to adopt such a system and residents who are sick of trash piling up in their historic city are welcoming. us opera star jesse norman has died at the age of $74.00 she sang more than 80 times in new york's metropolitan opera and was showered with honorary doctorates and prizes during her career she sang for to us presidential inaugurations queen elizabeth's birthday and the opening ceremony of the atlanta olympics.
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sports now in soccer the champions league returns tonight byron munich is facing off against tottenham the game comes at a perfect time for byron striker robert love and he set a record by becoming the 1st player to net 10 goals in the opening 6 games. there can be no doubt who the main man at byron is this season robert levon dusky just keeps getting better and better the polish striker has scored 12 goals in mind games in this campaign but in brian's champions league clash against tottenham he'll face another of the best strikers in the world english forward harry cain. was unleashed and there's nothing he can do is a very strong striker i'd say that at the moment him and love and dusky are among the top $23.00 or 4 strikers in the world. and canes goals help drive top end to their 1st ever champions league final last season their fans hope
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they can go one better this time around but coach mauricio pochettino is wary of buy in a team with a more storied past in europe's top club competition the club. tried to prepare. or they prepare they said to try to win the competition which are believed because the story say that by and will become the 1st german team to play at tottenham's new stadium it cost more than a $1000000000.00 euros to build the 2 strike is set to grace its pitch a priceless. coming up next on d w news asia more on china celebrating the 70th anniversary of the people's republic we'll hear from a communist party insider about where the country is heading. plus our correspondent in hong kong brings us more on those tensions there on china's national. body the responder's he has those stories and more for coming right up on
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a. live. live subscribe to documentary. cuts. this is the dump the news coming up. like you've never seen before showing off its best foot forward to celebrate its as its own 17th president xi jinping promises that its rise is unstoppable so where it used to headed we speak the communist party inside out. but in hong kong it's just.

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