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this is d.w. news live from berlin chaos and goals a major speech by hong kong leader kerry last. pro-democracy lawmakers shouting her down forcing her to leave the legislature we speak to one of the opposition legislators who took part in those protests also coming up. turkey says it will never declare a cease fire in northern syria defying calls for lossing to dawn the ground russia
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says its troops are patrolling to keep the conflict contained. eyebright thomas great to have you with us pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong have interrupted a major policy speech by the territories leader kerry lamb and she was forced out of the legislature as opponents heckled her and called on her to meet the demand of hong kong's protest movement in a moment we'll be hearing from one of those lawmakers 1st here's a look at exactly what happened. here in the speech where home kong's lead outlines future policies for the territory was in peril before it even began. and the heckling continued in the chamber. i think why even call lawmakers please
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be sorry and are you anyone who does not say southerners we will be arsed to leave the chamber. fibroid choose a president of like i will make his fellow citizens. pro democracy lawmakers projected the slogan 5 to moms not one less on the chamber's walls these include universal suffrage and an independent inquiry into police violence during demonstrations. carry lamb did not address any of these demands at all on. the. internet sixteen's miss lamb abandoned the planned speech. she later gave her address via video link. dramatic moments there i'm joined now by tanya chance she's
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a legislative council are in hong kong and was one of the pro-democracy lawmakers disrupting kerry lamb speech thanks so much for joining us. with so much of here in hong kong for months now was your disruption inside the legislature the best way to get kerry to address your proposals for change at home . well desist a 1st day and official start all for a new less school year and after all the small things our chief executive miscarry lem still refused to positively unser out the mounts and today she was driven to live are her policy address and without solving resolving the present situation i don't think that anything can resolve or even make hold on to go forward and we have so many problems laying in front of her but she decided in order
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to resolve all the steam noms keep on going after looking at his policy address it's just otoh ones and without any innovative ideas so i really don't know how she can govern all call and and at the same time this is day only cation and a duty all the legislator to bring the voices of hong kong people ordinary hong kong i'd like to jump in there. like to jump in there don't you if i could and you're saying it's all about resolving the current situation but the disruption in the legislature also meant that you were not able to formally withdraw the exhibition law which would send chinese citizens to the chinese mainland for trial that is the sticking point one of the main ones and that isn't that exactly what your constituents want you to do inside the legislature. i'm sure that this is a problem and should be soft well months ago. before today
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and if mrs kerry land decided to withdraw the bill at the very beginning of this movement and i don't think it will keep on going for so long and frankly speaking i think that the fullest eversmann cam and this is scary. to withdraw the feel of freshly instead of us ok do you think kerry should resign is that a good way forward. well absolutely absolutely i don't think she can still govern how carl and and after all this months we can clearly see her incapability and so i think that for every 1st step for all to go forward to go forward it's her it's for her to resign as soon as possible ok briefly if you could just a few seconds to go on the u.s. congress has voted to impose for a bill upholding human rights in hong kong is that going to help you do you need
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more international help we just have is a few seconds. definitely we need more international focus and we definitely need more help and least this is international standard and we want to up whole our human rights and freedoms in hong kong well tony john thank you so very much for being with us and all the best luck to you in doing just that thank you this preview down some of the other stories making news at this hour democrats have been become the next american president to have met for their 1st televised debate since the impeachment probe against donald trump launched last month most criticize the president's approach to foreign policy and his recent decision to take troops out of northern syria the condors. british and e.u. negotiators have resumed marathon talks on a draft breaks a deal the e.u.'s chief negotiator. said a new text must be on the table in the next few hours that so member states have a chance to review it before a crucial e.u.
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summit starting tomorrow. in spain thousands of catalog separatists have been protesting for a 2nd night now they're angry about the long prison sentences handed down to 9 cattle on independence leaders protesters clashed with police outside spanish government buildings in barcelona east of that city demonstrators blocked roads and set fires. turkey is rejecting calls for a cease fire in northern syria the ones launching against the kurdish militias there the kurds have formed a partnership with syrian government troops and syria's allies russia now they have now moved into previously kurdish held areas including the crucial city of meanwhile turkish forces are continuing to shell positions in northern syria u.s. vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompei or both on their way
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to turkey to push for an end to the fighting now this comes after the u.s. imposed sanctions on we're targeting the kurds inside syria. the syrian flag raised over to city off monday it's it's meant to signal the syrian army's presence in the city a move that follows the between kurdish forces and the government in damascus. and damascus has brought along international allies managed together with other kurdish held areas was abandoned by u.s. forces leaving it vulnerable to turkey's military offensive in northern syria. that we were afraid of turkey's aggression but now the turkish army won't be able to enter our city should we feel safe now. taking my foot on that. turkey has pressed ahead despite growing calls for its to halt the incursion. president on all charms unexpected decision to withdraw troops came after
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a phone call up with turkish president i week ago after that the u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey while the european union and post a limited arms embargo. its all too often we are watching the situation in turkey with concern i have repeatedly said this military action should be stopped we must return to negotiations. we remain concerned about the internet. situation if it was not to teach mit. while people in man which remain on the alert residents from elsewhere in northern syria are getting out the u.n. says that 160000 people have already fled the fighting. our correspondent a yohan is on the turkish syrian border she's in the turkish town of sirte yulia good day to you what's the latest where you are right now well
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i'm very close to the syrian border there right behind me and about 60 kilometers the air time and distance apart and away from monday there in northern syria where the situation remains a very tense also the kurdish forces there have invited the syrian regime to help them fend off this turkish military assault we have a new front line there now between the turkish armed forces and syrian government forces and russia has moved in military police to patrol this front line now all of this happened in the space of just a few days the u.s. forces that in monday which have withdrawn and now it's russia washington's a biggest adversary and bashar assad's most powerful ally in the words deadliest ongoing war who is filling the void now further towards this direction clashes fighting is ongoing the turkish military continues to at sac kertesz that targets there in the syrian towns of wrestle ein and to tell of yet now all of this one
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week off to turkey sausage its military operation in northeast syria ok now the americans have launched a diplomatic initiative u.s. vice president pence set to meet with the turkish president. is there a chance he could get air to one to back a cease fire and stop the fighting. well so far all threats all sanctions embargoes that were imposed didn't have much on and much of an effect on the turkish economy or on that the turkish government we have present admin say that he's never ever going to accept any kind of ceasefire that he's determined to go out with this so peroration and i quote him here until the very and he says that turkey's borders need to be cleared of a terrorist because that forces that on the other side are considered as terrorist by ankara linked to the p.k. k. that has waged a decades long insurgency here in turkey with many people thousands of people killed since the tacky for this is
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a matter of national security and national survival it will take a lot of you know to to make them stop to make them back down ok you know what about the civilian population give us an idea about how it's coping with the turkish baths. well there have been many dozens civilian casualties on both sides of the border of course over there in syria where the fighting continues according to the u.n. 160000 people had to escape the areas deeper into kurdish controlled territory there but of course the prospect of us its forces returning to these areas is and nightmare scenario for many people there here on the turkish side as well we have at least 20 civilians who have been killed by reprisal attacks from the syrian side we've been driving along the border in the past days many border towns here on the turkish side have been evacuated people left because it's simply too dangerous for
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them they say. thanks very much for that update. on the world of sports the turkish national team is being placed under the spotlight by football officials for giving these north terry salutes on the pitch as turkish troops moved into syria let's find out more. a goal celebration that has sparked a you a fan fest a geisha and turkish players paying tribute to soldiers fighting codes in syria for the 2nd game running national team players celebrated with the military salute the turkish sports minister believes penalizing the double celebration is hypocritical . they have to express that there's a double standard. there's a photograph here. you can see the salute and one gets money during the french national team's meeting with president and one of. the ones who did not speak about this at the time now trying to twist the meanings of this kind of salute to our
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soldiers. i submit this to the sports communities appreciation he clears months seemingly tongue in cheek salute to the french president equated to the turkish team's indorsement of the country's military operation in syria many players have also voiced their clear support for it on social media european football's governing body calls this potential provocative political behavior and will soon decide what punishment turkey will face. well time for the new generation in space nasa has given us a 1st look at its next generation of space suits the equipment's been designed to protect american astronauts on the artemis mission which we are taking men back to the moon and women as well of course because these space suits are customized to fit women as well as men are kind of unisex spaces although there have been and then as the dances in space suit technology for space walks and shuttle missions
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these are the very 1st u.s. spacesuits designed for exploring the surface of the mons and see apollo missions back and 7 s. . this is you know the news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks for being. welcome to the but is the game here on the. way a place to talk about things. this country. 3 more people. that's a little we have. let's have a look at some of the government the work so you don't want to miss.
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