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this is the w.'s live from demonstrators return to the streets of hong kong even as the government invokes emergency powers and thousands of protesters with faces covered come out in defiance of a new ban on face masks the governments of the chinese territory has threatened to take the hardline if 4 months of violent protests do not and also on the program with an increasing number of refugees arriving in greece through turkey meat w. ports from inside europe's biggest refugee camp children growing up in tents and
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shipping containers. and a painting of the british parliament full of chimpanzees fetches a backordered price for the anonymous artist banksy. i'm filled welcome to the program thousands of protesters have returned to hong kong's the streets despite emergency powers invoked by the government many are wearing the sort of face masks that have now been banned under a law that's just taken effect protestors could face up to a year in jail for wearing full or partial face coverings the government must act now that's the message from hong kong's in battle leader kerry lam she said the territory is facing a serious crisis as she invokes laws last used in the 1960 s. . and i would say that we are now in rather extensive and serious public danger.
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it is essential for us to stop violence and restore calmness in society as soon as possible. we hope that the new legislation can help us to achieve this objective. but on the streets defiance protesters seemed determined to stay resolute in the face of what they see as another curb on their rights protesters are wearing masks to frustrate the authorities and their employers from identifying them. where we're going to house is wearing the mask isn't going anywhere. we have the choice to wear a mask or not wear a mask when they must. go home to hong kong police are also wearing their masks when they're doing their job. and they don't show their passes or their numbers. come through we can't complain about them anymore. i miss you
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so i will still keep my mask on everywhere. and with chinese flag burning says part of the street demonstrations the new law shows no sign of extinguishing the demonstrators determination. straight to hong kong than where we find correspondent. welcome charlotte so it looks as though protesters are ignoring the ban and these new laws. that's right in the last couple of minutes that ban has now come into effect making it illegal for anyone taking part in any assemblies also arise or otherwise to where face moss to cover their faces that law exempts anybody who has a religious reason for wearing a mosque who has a medical reason and it exempts professionals as well including journalists but the people that we have spoken to say that they plan on pushing ahead wearing those
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mosques anyway into the evening and the days ahead one promised protester that we spoke to said that offices police simply cannot arrest everybody who is wearing that face mask some of the 1st aid workers that we've spoken to as well many of them volunteers say they are on sure about their legal standing when it comes to face mosque these people are on the front lines of tonight helping people hit by that take us they don't know whether they qualify as professionals or whether they're allowed to whether it's martial law there's a lot of uncertainty here having said that a lot of defiance as well this if this 6 ban was introduced to say to try and calm down the protests the people that we've spoken to say actually the exact opposite has happened we've seen that reflected tonight in the number of people who have taken to the streets after that ban was officially announced m when the bomb was officially announced how have people. in the city reacted beyond the protest and. a lot of anger
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of course i mean it people day today often do wear face offs here in hong kong anyway and those who are even and who are involved in the protests some of them have been authorized of course over the last few months they still feel the need to protect their identity they are angry at this ban being introduced and then there are those who are simply quote op intake as bodies who are nowhere near the front lines it's very easy to accidentally stumble across clashes if you are walking around hong kong and then if you don't have a mom. in place that of course is extremely painful and uncomfortable the fear is well crucially about this space must must ban being in she g.'s is that it's part of emergency. sweeping new powers that the authorities here how people here are concerned that that is a slippery slope but 1st if a small span what could come next a lot of people concerned about the idea of a kind of human legislation and emergency being introduced without authorization
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from parliament lot of concern and. now we have seen a lot of violence on hong kong streets from both sides to protest to still claim to be peaceful but must be concerns that the situation is going to ask a late tonight. we're seeing a lot of violence on the streets tonight already police fired tear gas they are on in a main shopping district that we were standing in they were clearing the protest purses that were gathered that what we did see though was a number of protest is dressed head to toe in in what looks like right is the mosque the helmets of breaking into shops that they say have probation and he protested sentiment china mobile for example we watched being completely vandalized people breaking in that smashing phone smashing televisions smashing windows there has been a lot of violence not just tonight but in previous nights as well i think most protesters acknowledge that they are people who are committing violent acts that
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are in the minority those people those saying that they've attempted to try peaceful protests in the pasta and they say the demands of still not been met they say that's now why they're resorting to violence. shot shells impel in hong kong thank you. now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world and the government protesters in iraq are defying curfews and returning to the streets dozens of people have been killed in 3 days of clashes between protesters and police firing live ammunition the prime minister says he will address the demands of protesters who are angry at high unemployment corruption and the lack of basic services. documents submitted to a court in britain show that prime minister barak johnson will try to delay bracks if there is no deal for leaving the block by the united 19th of october that would put the government in compliance with a law passed last month to avert a no deal brad said the papers were filed in response to a lawsuit by press opponents. bali's defense minister has visited 2 military camps
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where she hardest attacks killed at least $38.00 soldiers that this week another $33.00 soldiers are missing it's believed jihad is linked to al qaeda carried out the attacks and they also made off with large quantities of weapons. now to greece where the number of refugees arriving has risen sharply the un refugee agency says more than 10000 people mostly afghans and syrians landed on the greek islands in september alone by way of turkey one woman was killed and 17 people injured after a fire broke out at an overcrowded refugee center over the weekend the morea count on the island of last boss is europe's biggest refugee camp it was designed to hold 3000 but currently houses almost 13000 d.w. reporters might sound said this report from the morea camp. this tent outside greece's largest refugee camp is home to 4 people.
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iman who fled syria has been living here for close to a month the morea campus 4 times over its capacity so thousands are forced to live in the surrounding all of the growth. over a cup of tea i'm on tells us what life in the camp is like crowded dirty and dangerous every day every day that's normal if you know they are fighting inside. yeah. but there we can talk here. we don't want to you don't want. but problems in morea hard to avoid a fire broke out at the end of september in the camp and at least one person died residents rioted in anger as the firefighters put up the flames and they broke into administrative offices.
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since that incident i am on says trash has accumulated in heaps he believes the garbage collectors are too afraid now to come to the area. its children who suffer most from the dire conditions they live in. the aid organization doctors without borders runs a mobile clinic next to the camp today they will see about 100 children a normal caseload. the most common ailments are fevers lice skin conditions but psychological trauma is on the rise. the organization says many children in morea camp have inflicted harm on themselves and have even attempted suicide in the case he said we are seeing all for children traumatize from their a country of origins for the completely. difficult journey that they took to reach europe to reach at least most and they end up here in
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a calm completely overcrowded we don't know services and safe and secure the conditions the mental condition of the children are bigger dating day by day this is daily life inside a refugee camp packed with more than $10000.00 people a result of the resurgence and c crossings to lesbos the trip from the turkish coast to this beach takes about 2 hours and more migrants are making this journey than at any other point since 2016 when the european union signed a deal with turkey to prevent them from coming now with thousands waiting on this and other greek islands for their asylum applications to go through people here tell us the situation has become a crisis a situation that worries you honest master ghana's he is the mayor of moria the small town right next to the camp. that like many people living here he feels lesbos is being left to fend for itself. europe should show more solidarity and support greece with this problem greece alone isn't capable of
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dealing with this large number of refugees the e.u. member states have to help take in people and at the same time increase the pressure on turkey to stick to their side of the agreement if it was the issue of when europe where if you will get off your. back in the camp i'm on says he doesn't want to be a burden on anyone all he wants is a safe place to live. and he hopes to find this place before winter. at all cost can tell us more about the state of the migrant deal is a european migration analyst and director of the european stability initiative think tank welcome to t.w. where do you see the biggest hold up at the biggest block in this e.u. turkey migration deal. since the beginning the single biggest problem has been the inability to move people off the island quickly following an asylum decision the idea was never that people should stay on the islands for long the idea was that
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the people come from turkey apply for asylum you have a decision within a few weeks and then you determine who can be returned to turkey and who can be or must be sent to greece if you can't make a decision within a few weeks if it takes 2 years then people i just stuck on the islands for 2 years or you take them without a decision to the mainland which just encourages many others to come just to be clear you're saying it's taking 2 years to get a decision to process these people well look at the basic numbers greece last year the greek asylum system received almost 70000 applications and took 36000 decisions which is quite a lot. but just in the last month you had $10000.00 people arrive on the island so if you now arrive on the island as an afghan or as a nigerian as an iraqi you apply for asylum it will take you yeah a year until you get an interview it will take you and other year and then you have an appeal and so the idea of pushing greece to do it by itself is
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a nonstarter it will not work what you need is a coherent policy jointly processing these applications and that's that was the ultimate expert just to be clear that the burden of doing this processing is in that's entirely down to greece there is no e.u. assistance to just move these people through no that's what makes it difficult you have and it has to be like this greece has the primary responsibility it's the law is where it is a great law and yes it's greece that takes responsibility but the way the e.u. has supported greece until now through sending individual case workers through an organization based in malta the e.u. asylum support office and the way greece has requested the support until now has not worked it has not made decisions faster so what we've been advocating strongly i talk to the greek ministers i talk to officials him berlin is get together the 6 or 7 best asylum agencies in europe which have the experience with the greeks work out a detailed plan and say if from the 1st of november $250.00 people arrive each day
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how many caseworkers translators appeals panels do you need on the island to make a credible decision within 8 weeks and those who are now on the island you will not be able to process them move them to the mainland the moment as soon as you can but the moment you have a new system that makes sure that you don't have an evident of new people coming so when he's president says that this deal is not working. he's got a point when if greece manages in 8 months this year to send back a 100 people if any afghan for example gets into a boat and goes to greece knows that there is a 0 percent chance of being returned to turkey even if you do not get protection in the end then the techs say wait why should we promise to take people back but if you can't process them why is it our problem to send more police when they give a good talking to thought to us very clearly get all the mouse from the european stability initiative thank you and. now let
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us take a trip to the north pacific once home to some of the richest marine life on earth it has become the world's biggest rubbish dump after decades of pollution now floating landfill known as the great pacific garbage patch a stretch is 1600000 square kilometers with an income tax that's about 3 times the size of france and it's estimated to contain at least $1.00 trillion pieces of plastic but now for the 1st time ever we might be seeing a breakthrough in the clean up of the mess a team of dutch scientists says their own vicious effort to remove plastic from the ocean has achieved a milestone. d.w. zocalo naslund is here for a deep dive into what they called the biggest clean up in history. let's i was dive
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deep in the project is called the ocean clean up it was started 7 years ago by a 25 year old dutchman boy and slot finally 7 years later the team announced this week that they were the 1st to successfully harvest plastic from the great pacific garbage patch here's a look at some of the plastic that they hauled out of the ocean you can see all kinds of stuff in there large and small bits of plastic there also fishing nets even car tires and these bullies. pieces as well that are often mistaken for food by fish and other sea animals are the device itself and you can see it's very impressive it's 600 metres long it floats on top of the ocean it uses the movement of the water collects and then filter out the plastic debris it will send a low its location to a ship which then comes to collect the plastic when it's ready and it also works below the surface of the water as well you can see it allows fish to swim underneath it while it's filtering out plastic from the water this milestone as
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part of a long road came up the idea when he was 19 years old he's gone through many different tests many designs many failures it's a small 1st step but they're certainly celebrating this as a big one except you look at that as regret a great inventions you guys will that that's simple why why didn't they do it before give us an idea of the size of the challenge that there actually is a city we saw the enormous size of just this one pacific garbage patch there's actually 4 others out there so it's not even the only plastic passion the ocean and this problem is getting worse and we're producing more and more plastic every year of plastic waste is expected to quadruple over the next 3 decades by the year 2050 they predict there will be more plastic by weight than fish in the oceans i mean a picture that when plastic ends up in the ocean it enters the food chain that's eaten by fish by birds they found kilos of plastic in the stomachs of whales when they washed up on the shore ventured a classic of course that makes it in humans as well when we meet that fish the
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biggest problem right now is in asia so this is one of the biggest challenges china indonesia the philippines thailand and vietnam they generate more ocean plastic than the rest of the world combined that's the big hotspot ok so if you know all about bad news guess what are the chances that this could actually succeed well there has been some fanfare for the inventor for the project itself but there's also been a lot of criticism i mean 1st of all it's taken what 7 years. billions of dollars and what if we collected one load of plastic trash from the ocean many experts say those resources could be better used just prevent plastic from getting into the ocean the 1st place others say this project has some unintended consequences besides sweeping up the plastic it's keeping up ocean life potentially as well lou critters that live on top of the water this is what we're talking about here there's a lot of discussion right now in social media rebecca helm she's an assistant professor she specializes in jellyfish she says earlier this year i warned that the ocean cleanup would catch and kill floating marine life this week they announced
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they're collecting plastic their picture shows hundreds of floating animals trapped with plastic and we need to talk about this you can see in this picture these red circles she claims that those are actually small creatures that are very crucial to the food chain so some criticisms wealth for he come to do the right thing for doing the wrong thing but we can try thank you. by a busy street artist banksy so for more than 11000000 euros the highest ever amount for one of his paintings is called devolved pollens on the merge 10 years ago with current events in britain has given it a fresh relevance. with britain's parliament in 10 mile over the fast approaching break that deadline this was the painting fetching millions at southern b.'s london auction house on thursday. banksy is taken to debate in the house of commons was originally titled question time when it was painted back in 2009. but the
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artist has renamed it devolved parliament in a damning critique delivered just off to m.p.'s arguments over breck's it to send it into what some so as dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric. what he's pointing to here is the regression of this the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world into tribalistic animalistic behavior the source that we've seen border crossing our televisions across the world of the last months and weeks. dark times for the british parliament but good times for banksy the 11000000 euro winning bid was a record sale price for a work by the secretive street artist. it comes exactly a year after his shocks the art world with a painting that shredded itself the moment it was sold. to go with balloon has since been known as the love is in the bin.
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perhaps this image is the artist's warning to britain's parliament not to go the same way. and it's more than 70 years since the soviet red army captured by lead in ending the nazi regime but the fate of thousands of soldiers who fought in the final battles of the 2nd world war is still not known one of the biggest battles before the fall of berlin took place along what is now the polish german border the red army 40 campaign to cross the river ota and captured sed and capture strategic high ground on the approaches to the german capital costing the lives of more than 40000 soldiers on both sides very mains are thought to be scattered around places like this village here of pressing on the german side of the border a group of volunteers is now trying to locate the remains of those soldiers german and soviet so they can be buried with dignity. a swiss
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anthropologist and an italian student dig carefully around the skeleton they're searching for bones and clues about the age and identity of the deceased the 6 set of remains found at this excavation they believe he was a soviet soldier. wooden crates and that were left on the battlefield when the war ended because there were too many bodies to bury them all as they were often placed in military trenches or shallow pits then covered it was sorry allowing them up to india in fact to the. east of burlington in the boat their heavy fighting in early 1945 claimed the lives of sounds of german and soviet soldiers many of the war dead still alive here. to find them members of the group the association for the recovery of the fallen in eastern europe have been excavating the old trenches.
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digging twice a year they vic's umed the remains of more than $200.00 soldiers so far. you're happy because you find them but you need if you have a lot of problems how do you take him out right is anything broken so there is of course exciting because you found there is problems that you have to solve as well . that's why 40 specialists from across europe historians answer apologists and archaeologists are collaborating on this project they're doing so on a volunteer basis using their vacation time to look for soldiers' remains the associations chairman. is an entrepreneur from hamburg he has a personal motivation for his involvement his grandfather was among the soldiers killed in world war 2. but we're here because we want to resolve the fates of the soldiers who senselessly lost their young lives i did least give them back their names with dignity proper grave and the name. in order to later
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identify the dead the volunteers very carefully remove the remains from the ground the greater the number of personal objects they find the greater the chance of identifying them and notifying families about their missing relative this rarely happens but 23 year old danielle hammond has experienced it once was a moment that was the moment when i realized. that this is hugely important work. with our efforts and if you left over papers that were lying around somewhere for more than 70 years that person's face could be revealed for the family i am. the next day it's a military cemetery the volunteers together with local residents bury their recovered remains of 15 german soldiers in a dignified ceremony. this is also
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the end of one year of research so it's almost like you follow the days there the all across their cycle from there emerges from the ground to the river and that's something quite powerful to behold. next spring the volunteers hope to return and search for more fallen soldiers thousands still remain undiscovered and all those here know that only a small number of them will ever be recovered. this is day 2 of you coming up next on news asia tensions over hong kong playing out on international campuses will look at pro china forces at australian universities and what the government that wants to do about it to do about it. on the 1st a film about times cave rescue is about to hit the big screen come the movie version of capture the drama of the real life fish. fresh
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