subscribe to the documentary. the famous naturalist and explorer. bring to comics and go from the books to $250.00. barking all before your discovery. expedition boy. this is news asia coming up should they stay or should they go a tough question for vietnamese guest workers 30 years ago when the berlin wall fell many felt they were no longer welcome. and in search of her husband what it means if you're married to a human rights activist disappeared in china. plus you've seen videos of the hong kong protests now how about kenya one right on the front line.

i'm melissa chan you're watching news asia thank you for joining us this week marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall and you might wonder what does that have to do with this program well some 60000 compatriots from communist vietnam worked in east germany in 1989 and when germany unify many opted to stay some sought asylum especially those who believed more in the capitalist system others married germans were gardeners how they stayed on many faced hostility for their decision. quanto always dreamed of owning her own restaurant in 1976 the then 19 year old came to former east germany from vietnam.

my wide flower dress represented germany because it was given to me by german aid workers. so when i got the job training offer i immediately said yes i had no idea what i was getting myself into. it was a. release. she liked life in east germany vietnamese people were considered to be very industrious but after her job training. had to return to a vietnam that had been destroyed by war. then in 1987 she was offered the opportunity to return to east germany in a small town as a contract worker but the attitude towards foreigners had changed. in love and war become and we are all. so. whenever we went shopping the

cashiers the good looking down at us as though we had just walked out of the jungle . will us all. this is the building that one true used to work in a former clothes factory she quickly realized that people like her were only there to make up for the lack of skilled workers in east germany they were encouraged to not have contact with east germans in 1909 the wall fell germans were overjoyed but it was a precarious time for contract workers. it's been 5 and i was so worried i didn't know what was going to happen i thought it was all over me and. over the following years the government tried to put the form of contract workers. was allowed to stay because she was married to a german but she ran into opposition including her doctor he had been in charge of the contract workers in her small town. he asked

me what are you still doing here i answered i live here he replied but we don't mind you anymore there is no east germany anymore and i did. hatred of foreigners peaks in 1902 with aggressive gang violence right wing radicals such apartment buildings on fire and burned cars that belongs to vietnamese workers we have been bused to miles on my money when we saw the attacks on t.v. my husband cried. and i told him these are hard times for us i might have to leave the country. still one true to state today she feels more at home here but racism has again been on the rise in germany . of course i

hope that the people i like will remain in the majority so that we won't be in danger. i truly hope that will be the case it is up to all of us to open ourselves up to foreigners and not be scared of them because people from other countries are the salt in the soup of society. going in. it is open it is a good as. germany has become her home but one truth still has her vietnamese passport just in case. being a human rights activist in china takes grit take the case of you when shen who was arrested on trumped up charges of subverting state power we don't even know where she's been detained so of course the focus is on you to the point though that it's easy sometimes to forget the family members and the mental and emotional trauma

they endure. sure jaan is on a mission crisscrossing china on trains. as well confronting a system shrouded in secrecy i think i still don't know where my husband is or his situation. in pursuit of justice and answers for 680 days her husband you when sharing a human rights lawyer has been behind bars where exactly and for how long only those in power know. i feel helpless very disappointed and feeling like there's nothing i can do i also feel disappointed as they don't do things according to the law. but as i see these things in my heart i will never give up i will continue. here. for months she's been making the long trip to shoot you city detention center where she believes her

husband is being held. inside she clings to hope and a bag of warm clothes for the long winter ahead in the end there is no confirmation you is even here. the un shang i know is a good lawyer he was only practicing his rights and using his freedom of speech. this shouldn't happen to him and it's very unfair on my family. if. you are going there for flanked by use lawyers she heads next to the district court to demand information use case was heritier in secret please give short shrift to her desperate plight patience is running thin the mission my body is extremely tired going from beijing to is very far off then i leave beijing in the morning at 5 am and it's not even light of 5 sometimes it's raining sometimes it's snowing

it's already been 2 years i'm extremely tired tired to the point where i get sick late edition. eventually the resolve to file a complaint about used treatment the little expectation that it will make a difference another day in a cafe a system similarly designed to obfuscate and frustrate. joining us is d c b kong from our east asia bureau c.v. the un saying case is not an isolated incident this has been going on for years where not only the activists but the activist family members are targeted no. yeah we can tell this is just a tip off the eyes for like in recent years like you have mentioned activists and human rights lawyer are often targeted by the authorities they are while they are prosecuted a charge or even sent to chell but families are also to talk and off the governments

that. specially for those who have apparently committed no crime this last race the authorities try to pressure them by other means beyond the law for example new shouter would all of the chinese the nobel peace prize laureate or was under house arrest for 8 years so she was a night out to elise her own apartment even though she has never been charged friend of warrant out of some poetry and is no exception this well that turned violent and and that activist daughter was not allowed to go to school p. cuz of her father's charge phoebe can you tell us a little bit about how the chinese justice system works i understand the activists don't even have access to their lawyers that much you know in china whenever sex is involved with a charge are related to national security corruption and terrorism then therefore as he was detained them and not then letting them to meet the law is not to mention

their families so they have deprived off their civil rights to a point that only going representatives some of them might even sent to seek a trial or a sentence without informing their families become thank you. chinese president xi jinping backs hong kong's beleaguered and unpopular leader kerry lam that's despite months of protests that have brought as much as a 1000000 people of the 7000000 living there out onto the streets she made his public remarks in a meeting with lam well despite what he says protesters fight on including as you can see here in virtual reality hong kong has a digitally savvy population and activists have used technology in creative ways to promote their cause. but another night of protests in hong kong

but not on the actual streets in our virtual reality game replicating what's happening on the front line. that was developed by hong kong gamers to give players all over the world a better sense of the conditions faced by the city's pro-democracy demonstrators. one of the creators as well. she now conceals her identity after taking part in unauthorized protests. we hope to also mention that you know awareness by. imitating peace protests and let people who didn't. experience in frontline protest can. experience it in the 1st. developers call their game liberate hong kong players where in virtual reality headset can take in the

protest zone with a 360 degree perspective. they can play the role of a real life activist just not anything illegal such as inciting violence. in a game last year to experience what car sr from our 4 testers been through for example getting arrested getting hit by a bullet. getting to stay away need to stay away from the danger of. gas canisters. a similar role playing was recently suspended by google. liberate hong kong's developers are hoping that an american on my gaming platform will release their version sometime in november. that search will leave you with pictures of vietnamese guest workers invited to come work in germany during the communist era thank you for watching and a. good

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a scene when your mother was born in 1969 the wall was already 8 years old and you know my grandchildren were born after the wall fell born in the final. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history. starts number 6 on do you w. no one wins a trade war a message from the french president on a trip to china. to play fair and get far better market access. ready has a foothold in europe take a look at how the chinese trade around at the greeks. and in search

of the perfect. visit and village is becoming a mecca for coffee tourists. and then for extra business. french president obama is in china to drum up new business and blow the trumpet for free trade accompanied by other e.u. leaders he met his chinese counterpart xi jinping at a vast import fair in shanghai against the backdrop of a trade war between washington and beijing. at the international import expo in shanghai call on she raised a glass to global trade but behind the bonhomie are deeper efforts to ease the tensions stifling global commerce the e.u. wants china to open its markets further despite repeated promises of reforms european companies are still disadvantaged in china now. creating new balance links requires that chinese market access procedures be accelerated to make more transparent to enable foreign companies especially innovative ones to

establish themselves in china with confidence. she repeated his mantra.