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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  October 23, 2019 9:30am-10:01am CEST

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big brands have committed to fear working conditions in 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 the mirror starts no membership on g.w. . the 1st. it was unexpected but i think people have learned to expect the unexpected during
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these protests. go streaming out the. door ha ha. ha ah ah and i. i. i i.
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the whole movement. from the boat that i managed to pilot on pumped up on the ice that the shampoo in bad though we 'd are. always losing it 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 we've got calls that don't really function really schools are just like show trials and the other fear is that saddam might use this as an excuse to try to grab. arrest anyone they feel is you know
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speaking out against terror 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. and then when the government decided to go ahead we're 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 police force battery and reason. they use the necessary this is the question a falls against the protesters. my . hope that a smoke in the background that's tear gas. you don't get that in your eyes and i can already feel in mine. i think that was you know it really was an accidental discovery i was just going to go sightseeing i had about this protest oh if i just walked right through this protest. example story of 3 i. say god. god i
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have was. people throwing down reinforcements umbrellas against the water cannons they've been handing out mosques and doubles to everybody oh my god and these are the our brothers reinforcements i mean cost forward in a very organized manner. i think that the 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. up 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 lots of things which really made me worry nicely i would say the my girlfriend safety the safety of the protest was he was never going to they've wanted to get out of it i but i still got through it that i was i. i. was i thought 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 well i
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saw. the i. i. i was into the past this get out in front of the legislative console to try to. stop our. legislative process i i i i think that. i.
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after one call hot we go hot so you cannot blame every protester who used more radical rate to response. but i thought i meant response.
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for hong kong legislature plans folks they got into pockets 1st elected by every hong kong people just like them elect up by the profession knows that the company saw the cafe and. have no need to listen to the people. gradually over the last few months to see if the morons are expected to be on the spill 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 remand both the government and the police have called the protest france. they want an independent inquiry into please contact and
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finally the biggest most ambitious demand in my 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 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 no i guess must go to. the police or the fighting so you gotta like about good 3 hours before right right so so hang in there we said it was things interesting in your eyes almost like a little bit nervous. you know what if the police try at one of the protests to
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stop throwing stuff you want to disappoint a guest. it's going through me i want to bring. the only one road through what i'm like whoa i want to see that it's strange how did that end up so so close to. was. and there's like a moment where i felt should i run a lot. more. difficult going to have the project. at. all isolated in the opposite direction. and with all this sort of air being sucked out of my lungs i start the ticket i mean take ask me just take me have your life as it does it. takes a lot. some of the
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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 match of the wall of police also firing tear gas. but very likely extremely likely in fact sports it's a residential building of some protesters sheltering inside the security guard cause millions of dollars i'd look. at it was a complete and also a relief to be able to breathe and get oxygen back into my love. for. the e.u. to meet the likud in the uk you eat the food you do.
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you do. over the past 3 months we saw. the protesters has been largely peaceful and hong kong people have famous full organizing peaceful protests it's. easy because it's necessary actually very very kind towards bystanders you know because we're going to protest. we're not much of the starter so we see lots of people. people from your generation garments 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 what he's trying to match a columnist 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 and 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 expect there's been all sorts of types of protesters you have sound siddons there's been a hand holding protest. i cause.
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i felt. i. and there's also things like the lenin wows which are spontaneous and permanent place is and where people are posting post it notes or posters are to express how they feel and their demands and those are of course that protest and they're all over now. to talk about. the police brutality out at least system being so crude so they talk about it so the 4 of them on. the protest call like the government lawyer so it's many different messages it's just a way for people to express their feelings about the protests.
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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's 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 the day and they all aircraft i thank god that was could be critical 6 encroachments and the purpose was to show them educate the arriving passengers see what was happening a company in hong kong was off i was in the way they did
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that was based around the the fortress with all their materials their sorry i was. people just gave up and go right through all the trying to explain to to risk all and the by the arriving home home of what. was. was. was. so i came back while they're having airport hotel i and it was very peaceful i was glued. was the. was. i.
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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 the aim this time was not just to sit in the. lots of the straps and shut down operations there was so many people that the. whole 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. but then 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 but we weren't ready for. hostle i'm back at the airport and have been 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 it from their cell it was unexpected but i think people
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have been lying to rex that unexpected during these protests. was. in year part of the demonstration turn up the when some travelers were a world traveler or even. treated badly by the protesters this is definitely not justifiable from and as these perspective. these 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 that some of these people do it. well i understand 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 hungry 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 more 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. another 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 protestors this allows for information on the next destination of the protests to be quickly to 7 minutes as well as telegram protesters also use a homecoming reddit style for code. to organize protests. during protests when internet signal is patchy attendees that use apple's edge or function to share information. protest tito's have also been seen on the tender they have also been advertised as more than go about maps of the n.c.r. subway system during demonstrations which he so when a subway station is closed. or if there's a police presence at the station then 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're doing pretty well and you're comfortable you probably didn't see the problem and all you see now is violence and petrol bombs and bricks being thrown at police officers getting hurt so i do understand why they feel that way. is often a place or sometimes can be 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 that. there are a lot of we sentence the government well on one hand and that's the shape some of the arguments for example. and this tradition we must arm is. a correct way to how to government to extradite our criminals
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or suspects but there. has to be in compliance with international human rights laws and standards. finally step. to end months the formal off the show withdrawal of the extradition which is the number one demand and which is the demand that kicked out 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 that traditional bill 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 going and why did. i doubt it will have such a big impact because it really is too little to lay. socialism on the sly with. this sort of you to. you know some people might disagree me. to extend it has actually forced the government acts. we were told it was probably down to the parts because the experience in the streets actually force them to think you know get into one of the malls.
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and it's there because they had a big celebration in beijing it in one come back it's the sort of person we're going to stay in the last stage of the actual event itself in hong kong the 1st the start of almost like a festival. they would mos together 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
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a head and even when we started the news about the protests that the shots. were about was the big turning point night that is when the anger reached a new level i'm at. i. 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 which is you know seen as something that was. it was giving the government too much though it was allowing them to like you know the rest. of the china but now she's
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a natural. which is basically if it was just because she's not so much harder to do whatever she calls the protest. the 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 on a part of the government so i hope that. and i hope asa society can find a compromise where everyone's somewhat happy and i hope the government and the police can regain the public's trust past. half of my mom my.
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