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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  October 22, 2019 12:30am-1:01am CEST

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big brands have committed to fear working conditions and sustainable production. but who is monitoring to some contractors. and investigative documentary goes to italy and china and look speak kindly glamorous facades of fashion houses. luxury behind them or starts no membership long t.w. . it was unexpected but i think people have learned to x.
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that the unexpected during these protests. go streaming top of. the hot. tub. i. i. i i am.
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i think i. the whole movement started from the poles that a man was fired on. i . i i i was losing his identity. and that you know beijing is slowly encroaching on the freedoms of hong kong. and as we all know that mainland china doesn't have a very sound legal system but a little bit of course that don't really function rio schools are just like show trials and the other fear is that charter might use this as an excuse to try to grab. arrest anyone they feel is you know speaking out against terror
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a gene so no one really trusts the legal system in charge of. cause the protests for like a path where the 1000000 person rush to max and then when the government decided to go ahead with discussing that they were back her task on june 12th i believe and that planned the 1st rounds of tear gas or fired on protesters throughout all these protests. the police didn't do a great job as professionally trained. force they should have and any.
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when they use their force. the holy was very i'm reasonable they use the necessary disproportionate falls against the protest that. my. hope that the smoke in the background that's takeouts. you don't you get that in your eyes and i can already feel in mine. think that you know it really was an accidental discovery i was just going through a scary sight seeing i had about this protest oh if i just walked right through this protest. here folks very off pretty. hot say god. god i
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have was i think people are throwing down reinforcements umbrellas you guys you want to comment that they have to get mosques in kabul so everybody have. got to and these are the umbrella is a reinforcement so i mean phosphor it in a very organized manner. i thought. i think i thought that i still have in from the to gas the smoke everywhere this is an absolute madness was it was a moment of panic it was a moment of carnage my mind was. here i was always in this moment of adrenaline i i was always very aware of my surroundings i.
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i saw the looks of things which really made me worried that if my own safety my girlfriend safety the safety of the protests was he was the right number they wanted to get out of it i was to get through it that i was i. i. was i not i yeah i got. you know the web some actions i saw that i didn't agree with as you can probably see in my video however there's 2 sides to every story i just wanted to document well i saw.
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the. oh i. i. i'm centerfield has this get out in front of you have to say console to try to. stop. the legislative process i i i think that. i.
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where. we go hot so you cannot blame a tree protester who used more radical way to response. i got someone to respond.
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for hong kong legislative council into pockets 1st elected by every hong kong people just like them elect up by their profession knows that the company saw the cafe and that you expected so you have no need to listen to the people. gradually over the last couple of months to see if the morning of expected to be on the spill so there are 5 major demands the 1st time is of course to ensure are there actually honestly there is also the demand to release all arrested contests or is they want the designation of rights to be remanded stands both the government and the police have called the protest france. they want an independent inquiry into police contact and finally the biggest most ambitious demand in my
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opinion is universal suffrage. all. any time you want to protest sort of felt this sort of tension things might escalate and it kind of felt things could how can i be spared just any time since. i. saw it was stood on the main road with the last of the protestors i can see that these people know me well prepared almost like a battle you could say and here i was turning up with like nothing basically no protection no i'm asking no you know i guess most of. the police have been firing tear gas like about good 3 hours before right right so it was so heavy and yet there was that it was things were stinging your eyes closed so i could go and look at notes. you know one of the police tried one of the protests to stop throwing
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stuff what additional points a guest. is going through me i want to bring. the only one road through was my fault i was sick of it strange how did i end up so so close that he. was wrong and there's like a moment where i felt could i run a not. difficult with everything. that. i said in the opposite direction. and with all the sort of axle being zapped out my lungs i start the ticket i may take ask me to just let me have your life as it does it. takes a lot. more to follow some of the
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protesters who are fleeing down the side streets of showing why of course. but as i went down the end of one side street i was magic wall of police also firing tear gas. but very likely extremely lucky in fact i spotted a residential building of some protesters sheltering inside a security guard post me. cause i would like. it was a complete and utter relief to be able to breathe and get oxygen back into my lungs . or. to e.u. me the water the eat the all the illegal you. tube do. you
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use. over the our past 3 months we saw. the protesters has been largely peaceful and hong kong people have famous fall organizing peaceful protests. in. the. d.c. approach that is are actually very very kind towards bystanders you know because we're going to protest. when a bunch of these protests i we see lots of people. people from your generation armies in the shops and on public transport and the bosses waving and giving the school to these young protesters.
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so it's just one piece from the mass of congress i see which the mainstream media isn't showing because. it's quite moving really to see so much solidarity to see so many people out on the streets all expressing the same things and doing so peacefully and safely. and you know when it's raining you can actually count on someone offering you an umbrella or a rain jacket there is one time i start raining i realize i didn't have anything to protect me or my camera and i just walked around knowing that someone would offer me something eventually they did. there's been all sorts of types of protesters you know sad and sit ins there's been a hand holding protests. i cause.
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i know. i. and there's also things like the lenin wows which are spontaneous and permanent place is in poland where people are posting post it notes or posters are to express how they feel and their demands and those are of course that peaceful wage protests and they're all over town. the police brutality that will cut out a piece just won't be so crude so they talk about it so the 4 of them on start to approach us as one cool like the government so it's many different messages it's just a way for people to express their feelings about
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a protest. there's a lot of different ways people are expressing their opinions and wanting to have their voices heard. questions differing opinions on what methods really work. these protests there's so much that happens that shocking and something happens every week you know it's a lake and i've had this conversation with other journalists or talk about something or that time when this happened that would be like that was yesterday because the days are so long and so much happened so i think some of the more memorable times was for example when they managed to get all their flights canceled for the rest of the day at the healthcare quest i thank god i was called before i could sit in protests and the purpose was to show and educate the riving passengers of what was happening the caribbean home cause i was
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i was the way they did that was space around the forest with all their materials the signs i was. people just gave up and go right through all to trying to explain to to risk all and the by the arriving home all are all what. was. was. was. so i came back while they're having airport hotel i and it was very peaceful there was a girl who. the. god. i.
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love. the brutal methods employed by the police and to the people consequently the next day the protesters decided to extend the demonstration. however this time was not just to sit in the cold but to disrupt and shut down the operations there was so many people have yet to come so all flights for the rest of the day. have the.
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same thing happened again the next day on tuesday flights were also canceled. within there were it contained environment no one expected by you know a lot of journalists including myself and the bats did break out we did have our gear on ourselves we had them in the press room in the airport there we were ready for. hosler back at the airport and having quite quickly exe and in a place is kind of showed up at now where they arrived at their party and came out and things were going to hit it from their cell it was unexpected but i think
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people have trying to relax that the unexpected during these protests. was. in the airport. demonstration turned up to it when some travelers were trapped or even. treated badly by the protesters this is definitely not justifiable from embassies perspective. surely and less than double because what happened before was a big clash between the hong kong police and protesters a round loss of anger among the protesters no one really wants to see violence we don't want it to happen but at the same time i sort of understand why that some of these people do it. well i will stand their frustrations on the stand around of course there's no. justification for marantz on fire protesters but the same time i think it's gotten this far because of how the police have managed situation and
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a big big come to us violence because of years the government ignoring what our people want it. what's different about these protests is that it's a leaderless movement it's not a coalition between many different groups should be called to be waterloo. this strategy comes in the form of flash mob protests these protests radically change locations or in the course of the day and you often get different groups splitting to go to other areas of hong kong this captures the police off guard and stretches that manpower. now the key to these flash more protests is the telegram app. there are several
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protest chat groups on this messaging app some of which contain tens of thousands of protesters this allows for information on the next destination of the protests to be quickly the seventy's as well as telegram protests there's also used hong kong reddit style for l r h k g to organize protests. during protests when internet signal is patchy attendees that use apple's edge or function to share information. also been seen on the finger they have also been advertised as more than go about maps of the m.c.r. subway system are shared during demonstrations which the so what subway station is closed. more of those are police presence at the station so social media is kind of at the heart of the protests i would say i think it would be a completely different protest if it weren't for social media.
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and certainly not an equal society but for many they're doing pretty well and if you are doing pretty well and you're comfortable you probably didn't see the problem and now you see now it's balanced and petula bonds and bricks being thrown in place officers getting hurt so i do understand why they feel that. is often a place or sometimes can be the place where criminals can try to sleaze and what i mean fairstein extradited back to china becomes a safe haven for them so i sort of see the argument to up. there are logging we listen to the government well on one hand and us to share some of the arguments for example. and this tradition we must arm is. a correct way to go to governments to x.
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that they are criminals or suspects but there. has to be in compliance with international human rights laws and standards. step outs none step formal off the show withdrawal of extradition which is the number one demand and which is a demand that kicked out these protests in the 1st place but. point out it's been 3 months since the protests began and in that time i think that happens now damage has been done. and i think the traditional bell while still a demand is no longer the main concern i mean the most common chant of the protests
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is i mean demand not one last she's given and while. i doubt it will have such a big impact because it really is too little too late. i don't believe i'm on the sly with. this but if you tend to. you know some people might disagree me. to an extent it has actually forced the government acts we're told it was probably down to the parts because the experience in the streets is actually force them to think you know get into one of the mobs.
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or it's. not a big celebration in beijing it in one come back it's the sort of person we're going to get our say in the world stage. the actual event itself it comes on the perch they start off almost like a festival. they would last together are showing their solidarity for these 5 demands and against the government and the situation quickly it escalated around 4 o'clock when the police fired say cast last time as a kid still here. and then the situation. sort of came to
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a head in the evening with the start of the news about the protest that being shot . down was the big turning point night that is when the anger reached a new level i'm not. ah. ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah so it's a very scary amount of power to come across one and it's especially opened a pandora's box. you know these protests started over the extradition which is you know seen as something that was. giving the government too much power it was allowing them to like you know arrest people and take them over to china but now
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she's a natural. which is basically evil was because she's not so much harder to do whatever they want to protest. the protests will definitely go on for at least a couple of months i would say. and i can see. why the protests would die down if there is no concession for the government so i hope that. p.c. and i hope society can find a compromise where everyone's somewhat happy and i hope the government and the police can regain the public's trust. passed.
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