tv Close up Deutsche Welle October 22, 2019 2:30pm-3:00pm CEST
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from the post that i managed by the hong kong. it's that the ship. that the. only thing is i don't. and that you know beijing is slowly encroaching on the freedoms of phone calls. and as we all know that mainland china doesn't have a very sound legal system but i know they've got calls that don't really function for your schools or just like show trials i mean i fear is that china might use this as an excuse to try to grab. arrest anyone they feel is you know speaking out against terror a gene so no one really trusts the legal system in charge of. the
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protests really like a path where the 1000000 person rush. 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. were and they use their force. of holies was very and reasonable they used the necessary
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disproportionate force against the protest that was. my. thought that the smoke in the background that's takeouts. you don't you get that in your eyes and i can already feel it in mine. i think that was 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 they also pretty was caught saying god. god i have god the. people are throwing down
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reinforcements umbrellas you guys you want to kind of think they haven't got mosques and told those to everybody oh i wasn't and these are the own brothers reinforcements i mean phosphor within a very organized manner. i. i i i think that that is still high 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 well i was always very aware of my surroundings i. i saw lots of these which really made me you worried nicely and safety my
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girlfriend safety the safety of the protests was he was right the minute if you need to get out of it i was to go through that i was i. i. was i was i yeah i got. you know the west 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 what i saw.
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kong people just like them elect up by the profession knows that the company saw the cafe and their chief executive have no need to listen to the all call people. gradually over the course remarks to mars have expanded to new york still so there are 5 major demands the 1st time is of course to ensure are there actually only there is also the demand to release all arrested protesters they want the designation of rights to be remanded both the government and the police have called their protest france. they want an independent inquiry into place kind act and i mean the biggest most ambitious demand in my opinion is universal suffrage. all. everybody wants are protests all of
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this sort of tension things might escalate and it kind of felt things could how can i be spared just anytime soon. so i 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 must go to. the police or the fighting to get like about the 3 hours before i'd write so it was still hanging and yeah there was that it was there was a listing in your life so just so i could go and look at notice. you know one of the police charged one of the protesters stuck right inside what it disappoints a guest. is going through me i want to bring. the only one
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road which i'm like whoa i was says it's strange how did i end up so so close to. the. was and there's like a moment where i felt should i run a not. unusual what have you been thinking. at. all i said in the opposite direction. and with all the sort of acts of things i thought my lungs i start to kind of. mean take ask me to just say they have your legs it does it really takes a lot. i followed some of the protesters were fleeing down the side streets of showing why i could. but as i went down the end of one side street i was massive wall of police also firing tear gas.
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but very lucky distributor in fact i spotted a residential building of some protesters sheltering inside the security guard post me and goes on to look like. it was a complete and also relief to be able to breathe and get oxygen back into my love. for. the new elite the wanted to meet the mood for the morning in the mood. to do. over the past 3 months we saw. the protesters has been largely
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peaceful and hong kong people have famous full organizing peaceful protests. if. you the city the protesters are actually very very kind towards bystanders you know because we're going to protest. when i got out of the start that's why we see lots of people. people from the older generation families in the shops the on public transport and the buses waving and giving escorts these young protesters. so it's just what he's trying to match the closest i see it's the mainstream media isn't showing that.
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it's quite moving really to see so much solidarity to see 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 started raining and i realized i didn't have anything to protect me or my camera and i just walked around knowing that someone would offer me something eventually and they did. there's been all sorts of types of protesters you know sand sit ins there's been a hand holding protest the way. i cause thanks. i.
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think. 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 now. to. ringback talk about the police brutality the police just being so groups who are they talk about sort of the 4 of them or. the protesters call like the government so it's many different. it's just a way for people to express their feelings about the protest because. there's a lot of different ways people are expressing their opinions and wanting to have
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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 will talk about something after 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 the rest of the day at the healthcare i thank i was could be very good 6 in protests and the purpose was to show them educate your driving prostitution what was happening the caribbean hong kong was i was the way they did that was space around the the fortress for their materials there sorry
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the brutal methods employed by the police. hong kong people consequently the next day the protestors decided to extend the demonstration. however this time was not just to sit in the. lots of the straps and shut down the operations there was so many people yet it was forced to cancel all flights for the rest of the day. the. same thing happened again the next day on tuesday flights were also canceled.
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within the airport and 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 but we weren't ready for. so i'm back at the airport and having quite quickly exe and in a place is kind of showed up at now where. they are out of their party came out and things were going to hit and from their cell it was unexpected but i think people have trying to relax that the unexpected during these protests. was. in year part. the demonstration turned up the when some travelers were
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tragically or even. treated badly by to protest this this is definitely not justifiable from and this is perspective. this surely and less than double because what happened before was a big clash between the hong kong police and the protesters a round loss of anger among the court asked that no one really want to see violence we don't want it to happen but at the same time i sort of understand why there are some of these people do it. now i understand their frustrations on the stand around of course there's no justification for violence on entire protesters but the same time i think it's gotten this far because of how the police have managed in situation and i think we've come to this violence because of years the government ignoring what our people want to.
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thank what's different about these protests is that it's a leaderless movement it's like a coalition between many different groups. because of the be waterloo. this strategy comes in the form of flash mob protests these protests radically change locations in the course of a day and you often get different groups splitting to go to other areas of hong kong this captures the police off guard and structures that manpower. now the key to these flash more protests is the telegram app. there are several 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
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to be quickly to 7 it's as well as telegram protests there's also used a homecoming reddit style forum called l r h k g to organize protests. during protests when internet signal is patching attendees it use apple's edge of function to share information. protest tito's have also been seen on the tender they have also been advertised as a more than go about maps of the m.c.r. subway system are shared during demonstrations which he saw when a subway station it's closed. or if there's a police presence at the station themselves a 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. and certainly not an equal society but for many they're doing pretty well and if you're doing pretty well and you're comfortable you probably didn't see the problem
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and all you see now is balance and petula bombs and bricks being thrown around and police officers getting hurt so i do understand why they feel that. is often a place or sometimes can be a place where criminals can try to squeeze and without any fear of being extradited back to china becomes a safe haven for them so i sort of see the argument to up. there are log we sense the government well on one hand we share some of the arguments for example. and this tradition we must arm is. a correct way to have 2 governments to extradite our criminals or suspects but there. has to be in compliance with international human
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rights laws and standards. are lots nun's the formal off the show withdrawal all extradition which is the number one demand and which is the demand that kicked these protests in the 1st place but. now it's been 3 months since the protests began and in that time i think that happens now a lot of 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 is i mean demand not one last she's given what.
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i doubt it will have such a big impact because it really is too little to lay. socialism on the floor of this. sort of you to. you know some people might discriminate. to an extent has actually forced the government acts. we were told it was probably down to the parts because the chaos in the streets especially because that includes you know getting into one of the marks.
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where it's. had a big celebration in beijing it in one hong kong and barracks this is a very simple i'm going to say in the last stage of the actual event itself in hong kong the protests started off almost like a festival. they would mostly after showing solidarity for these 5 demands and against the government and the situation quickly it escalated around 4 o'clock when the police fired tear gas was families and kids were still here. and then the situation. sort of came to head and even when we found out the news about the protests that the shots. were about was the turning point night that is when the anger reached
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a new level i'm at. so it's a very scary amount of power that the government has won and it's essentially opened a pandora's box. you know these protests started over the extradition deal which is you know and i'm seen as something that was. it 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 she's a nazi. which is basically it was just because she's not so much power to do whatever they want to cause the protest. the
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protests will definitely go on for at least a couple of months i would say. i can see. why the protests would die down if there is no concession for the government so i hope that. peace again i hope this 80 can find a compromise where everyone's somewhat happy and i hope the government and the police can regain the public's trust the. past.
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