this is d.w. news live from berlin a threat from hong kong authorities 2 students in a university standoff surrender is the only option now this after dozens of students stage a daring escape from the besieged polytechnic university 1000 remain barricaded inside beijing says it could intervene to end the crisis also coming up. a departure from international law washington says it no longer considers israeli settlements in the west bank to be illegal palestinians condemn the move as another

blow to prospects for peace. plus this migrant camp was meant to help those 3000 people is now home to over 13000 greece is moving to reduce the numbers out the morea capital us post. and the south african teacher who's moving with the times. we'll take you to the classroom that's taking a different approach to learning. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us some 100 protesters remain barricaded inside a hong kong university as the standoff there with police continues now that's according to the territories. chief executive kerry lamb clashes have been raging

of course for days now with 600 people who were inside that university building there already surrendering to police others made a bold escape by climbing out of buildings terry lamb called on those remaining inside to surrender saying the hong kong government was trying to find a peaceful solution to end the standoff meanwhile china says hong kong's high court does not have the power to end the ban on protesters wearing masks now that move could add even more fuel to the ongoing protests. for the very latest let's bring indeed abuse phoebe kong she joins us now from hong kong good day to you phebe could you give us a sense of what's happening in those buildings behind you there who's inside and and what are the conditions lie for them. now brian now i'm standing right next to the university campus that you can see the

building right behind me still 100 of the protesters says so you're staying all i can say they are trapped inside the complex and their conditions say they get worse by their seizure get longer. they are ready and back then when we were inside a camp site yesterday. harry asked a canteen says even there are some coke like coke some fresh food but. the food and their water running out right now there is no supply and there is no input of any. tiro so like the weapons are also the food and the water they are running out and. we can assume that the conditions it's getting worse because there's no one like clearing out the university and i think it is getting harder for them to like survive inside the campus ok phoebe there's certainly

a lot of concern for the students behind you in those buildings there's also a lot of worries right now about the students who've already surrendered to police where are they right now and will they be sent to prisons on the chinese mainland. during the time when i standing here with many. many reporters from auto parts of the well and we saw some of there were some thousands of students leaving the campus frew the row right behind next to me and they're taken away by the police and the some of the high school principals and some people from the advocatus sector they negotiated with the police and they have agreement not to arrest those protesters who are under 18 most of them this do studying high school so they won't be a rest immediately but they have to leave the personal information for the offices

so they may arrest him sometime in the future but for those who are already adults they will gather best right here at the moment when they leave to come to campus and probably they were face a charge off rioting because the government has already the highest already defined the oppose house around it camp from sunday they have to find it as riot. ok if you have to leave it there thanks very much to you because joining us from the side of that siege. well now it's to a major reversal in 40 years of american foreign policy the troubled ministration says it no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as violating international law for decades israel's settlements on palestinian territory have been an obstacle on peace negotiations also news have condemned the move called choosing the law of the jungle over international law. the u.s.

gives up a decades long position on israeli settlements. the establishment of israeli civilian settlements in the west bank is not per se inconsistent with international law israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law because they built on land occupied by israel during the 1967 middle east war the settlements are one of the main impediments to peace with the palestinians. acting prime minister binyamin netanyahu who's in serious legal and political turmoil welcome the new stance. this is a historic day another great policy achievement of the president trump recognized as the capital of israel recognized all summoned over the golan heights the us administration has now put an end to the lie that settlements i am legal. the palestinian authority is outraged israeli settlements in the occupied palestinian

territories including your jerusalem. not only illegal under international law they are war crimes and the statement of mr secretary of state of the united states is absolutely. rejected and in response to pompei of the european union's foreign policy chief. said the e.u.'s position on israeli settlements had remained unchanged the e.u. considers them illegal. the israel palestine peace process has been stalled figures now and washington's latest move could jeopardize future negotiations. you know some of the other stories making news at this hour lebanon's security forces have been heavily deployed in the capital beirut with anti-government protesters determined to prevent a parliamentary session set for later today banks reopened across the country for the 1st time in a week after new measures limited. transfers were brought in as the country faces

a growing. a crisis. a gas explosion in a coal mine has killed 15 people and injured 9 others in china's northern changi province the miners were working underground when that blast struck chinese mines are the most dangerous in the world thousands of miners are killed each year in accidents. thousands of supporters of bolivia's ousted president a format all us have again taken to the streets of the capital of pause there demanding the resignation of the self-proclaimed interim president janina. his catholic church has called for a national dialogue to end the violent protests. all saying in the region and thousands of protesters in chile are stepping up their demands for a new constitution and for the resignation of president sebastian pinera many have suffered serious injuries in recent demonstrations they use the police of brutality

and of intentionally shooting protesters and they had with rubber bullets president pinera says any excessive use of force will be investigated. nelson campos fears he will lose his eyesight he was shot by a policeman cheering a recent demonstration in chile's capital santiago. they will have a detached retina and i have internal injuries inside my own i it's not looking good . the shooting happened during recent anti-government protests demonstrators have been hit by water cannon or rubber bullets some filled with metal and it's not just happening to violent protest is peaceful demonstrators even random bystanders are being targeted. videos like these published on the internet aren't difficult to watch medical professionals are alarmed.

some bullets just scratch the surface of the eye but some hit them directly and 99 percent of the patients if not all end up going blind for sure to see it as a warder it seems unlikely to be a coincidence more than $200.00 people in chile have lost their eyesight in this way police have been accused of aiming at people's heads human rights advocates say the violence reminds them of the dark times of the chilean dictatorship amnesty international has investigated some of the latest cases. for the police the police are deliberately targeting certain body parts they're using their guns in a way that can lead to lethal interests. because so little is chile's president sebastian pinera has sent all cases of disproportionate police violence must be investigated while it exists aka said the committee any excessive use of force and

breach of police protocol work needs to be investigated by the public prosecutor use and brought to justice. but so far little has happened many police officers don't wear id badges that makes it almost impossible to prosecute them for nelson campus that's no longer a priority and we'll. i have children then would i need to be able to work and earn money whether i wanted or not. i need to forget my fears but i'm still full of fear and panic. on my legal nelson's life is now dominated by the injuries he received at the hands of the police. that was the onset of winter greece plans to transfer some 20000 asylum seekers from the jane islands to the mainland over the coming weeks include many on the

island of lesbos side of the overcrowded morea migrant did have years on the n.s.f. and max and her have this report from the island that's become home for thousands of refugees desperate to leave their. friends bid farewell ask the buses which. more than $100.00 asylum seekers are leaving maurya camp for some after a year if when. the joy is palpable but so is the pain in the uncertainty of having once again into the know how do you feel now that you can get on the bus and leave and leave very happy but i have lots of friends here i didn't miss work everybody justice. in the morning i cried and still to know my friends came to see me just. raw and miri has lived with her daughter for a year in morea a camp she describes as the worst on earth she was notified yesterday and given

only hours to pack all her things and leave. i merely is one of thousands of asylum seekers greece plans to move from the north aegean islands to the mainland before winter comes. and. deputy governor of the north island says this rush to transfer asylum seekers is not a permanent solution but he says it will let the islands breathe again. to eat them our basic goal is for the islands to be decongestant for there to be a better distribution of people all over greece. it's insupportable that we have a ratio of one migrant to 5 locals here and they're not this in a bed in the rest of greece it's much lower. than they like the refugee reception. central lesbos is not just overcrowded it's often described as the worst humanitarian crisis in europe. more a camp was built for 3000 but more than 4 times that many people live here

thousands of them outside the fence like that here we meet not to belittle it from afghanistan but it shows us where he lives with his family as a single mylan tent for 5 people with winter on its way finland men hit you only then i've lost all hope. only god can help us again are the chances i pray we will be rescued from this hellish plans and with what i'm good but i am. at its northern edge more it is expanding a group of men are breaking ground for a family who will spend their 1st night here no one we talked to here expects the population to shrink anytime soon. in the middle of the night yet another arrival a frantic spot carrying migrants rescued off the coast of last boss this time 33 of them including women and children. everyone gets

a bottle of water a snack and a blanket they're relieved as they are registered on european soil but few know about moria their next home. and this is a pile of discarded life jackets that were worn by those who made the dangerous crossing to less boss but the risks and the conditions of moriah camp won't keep more people from coming for the past 3 months numbers of arrivals have far outpaced the numbers of departures but if the government's transfer program succeeds the island of lesbos once again could become what it used to be a brief stopover on the way to europe. rather marie is on the last bus to arrive at the landing she collects her bags as the ferry to athens floats its cargo. just i don't worry about. here i am. if accords.

i hope. i'm strong. and she holds her bags on to the ship she doesn't know where she will live next but she is certain that she will never go back to more. so where are the migrants being taken did every reporter i mean asked of his just returned from les mis joins us now in the studio report thanks very much. where is rob right now she's definitely not where she thought she was going because a lot of people getting on that ship thought it was going to athens the ship did indeed go to athens but once they get there is the greek government's policy to distribute the people who get there around greece because they don't want one place in greece to have more than another so what they're doing now is sending a lot of people to the north of greece places like near testimony but she texted us after she got there and she said she had been crying all day because they sent her to another refugee camp she's living in an iso box with about a dozen other asylum seekers and she said when she looks out our window she just

says woods which is not at all what she expected to be doing right now ok why are migrants stuck for years on greek islands like les mis well this goes back to that you turkey deal that was signed in 2016 that went into effect and what is essentially did is a gave turkey money in order to turkey started accepting all the failed asylum seekers that ended up in greece but the stipulation there is that they only accept people who are registered on the islands in greece so basically what that is done is a turn the island into reception centers where people have to wait for their application be processed before they know if they're going to the greek man and or if they're going to be sent back to turkey and it's really been backed up there because it takes sometimes now because of the back up over a year to. process and it's ok what happens when the asylum applications are rejected theoretically they would be sent directly back to turkey where they came from these people coming from afghanistan somalia they would go back to turkey where they had passed through to get to greece but that's only theoretically

because since the deal was signed in 2016 only a little over a 1000 people have been deported the new greek government which is right wing they've promised to deport many many more but we still have to see if that's going to happen so essentially the greeks government's policy right now to deal with the crisis situation lesbos is to send them to the mainland ok now the new greek government has come out today and said the situation just cannot continue the way it is calling on more solidarity we've heard it before haven't we from other e.u. member states. is there any solidarity right now for greece like you said we've heard this before it's been a long time coming and i think what's happening is greece is the one dealing with it the e.u. is giving the money of course there's going to be there's some you know negotiations with turkey right now to see if they can step up blocking people from getting to the greek islands but i don't think greece is counting on that you to give them enough solitary to solve the crisis on the greek the greek islands ok we're going

to continue following rob stores right was still in touch with are you still for the ok i mean thanks very much for coming in. this is deja vu news live from berlin coming up on the program the key town teacher who's been using some very unconventional methods to connect with his students he's become something of a viral hit as well. but 1st here in germany the government has approved and ambitious plan to deal with the gaps in the nation's mobile phone networks berlin plans for lease more than 1000000000 euros to construct thousands of cell towers by 2024 the moves far broader strategy to modernize germany's infrastructure. anyone who's traveled through rural areas in germany knows the country is full of places without cell phone service or a decent internet connection. chancellor angela merkel and had cabinet want to

tackle the issue head on the german government says it plans to build 5000 cell phone towers after a 2 day consultation on digital policy in germany the chancellor recognizes the common challenges. that we have a lot of work ahead both in the hardware area the mobile communications strategy and in broadband expansion but also in the digitization of our own administration. but if you turn. to another issue open data the chancellor calls it the new or that could fuel german firms but with the restriction that only anonymous data would be collected but opposition politicians are not convinced that it's chided us and that resources have generally been a problem even in the ministries only one or 2 people are dealing with the subject of open data that's not enough it takes time and resources and we need role models to lead the way just before bits of transport is also said to benefit above all to

promote electric cars vehicle buyers in germany would receive a subsidy of $6000.00 euros if they opt for an electric model in addition berlin wants to expand the infrastructure that supports electric vehicles including more charging points by 2025 especially in rural regions eventually creating 1000000 public charging points by 2030 skeptics say this amounts to heavy homework but chancellor merkel's government is optimistic we have some football now in germany play their final euro 2020 qualifier today because our home squad face northern arland will be in frankfurt germany have already qualified a win will boost their seeding in the draw. yogi live still has a few tricks up his sleeve in the remaining euro 2020 qualifier germany have already secured their place at next summer's tournament so love wants to shake things up against northern ireland. planning some changes because i want to see

certain players in action again this year and give them a chance and show my faith in them and give them the space they may be neat. enough light i'll come up in new ticked goalkeeper mark andre test a game is among the players expected to start he's been vocal about wanting more playing time for the national team ahead of captain manuel neuer for live all that matters is that the team finishes top of the group must. go we want to win the next game against northern ireland we want to end up ahead of holland that would be nice it needs to be our goal but we can also use the game to develop and give certain players a chance to develop themselves you know couldn't he can be 2019 has been another shaky year for the germany team but the match in frankfurt gives them a chance to go into the new decade on a high note. it's to south africa now an area outside of cape town known as the

cape flats is often associated with crime violence and abuse injury increase went there to find out about a local teacher whose unconventional approach is inspiring students to overcome the harsh realities of their everyday lives. down the dominance of teacher and if you sit down this interview i speak i know it will have some sort of the way to take my place and to. keep his eye look at. what is in that state and then i try to find the scope of the pretty tough. and then i go do research on 2 things that are in line with the content and conspire to.

put my. name is on. the side of the solid business cost of the big wall the sound of my voice you discussed a lot both mean anything woman not. breaking down thing them into giving. they do face a lot of challenges in their households we talk about poverty we talk but gangsterism and all other social ills within the community but i've seen a different type of child that has been stigmatized for what people see this as and for and i always tell them i'm more than what i'm being seeing. within the society itself is very nice and innovative and supports us

a lot and helps us something we're going to difficult times the system that has been pulled and silly math and science skills the creativity of the children still be that missing me ellen is seriously balding something good as an ice dancing in the school system on. come on come. on down please my mom. i was there to the radio one morning and this song came up as on your 1st of being from a boy to some buoyancy can be seen with confidence and in the theater so the. this can actually be. quite a powerful thing to inspire the dentist and break my lease and posted it on facebook the video inside i think the most thing that i like about my job is the

fact that i can influence someone positively i know what these children all going through i'm not immune to the challenges and i feel somehow i can contribute to a positive change you know. if you're a modern our top stories at this hour kong's chief executive kerry is urging a peaceful resolution to a standoff between police and some 100 activists barricaded inside the polytechnic university campus the un has called on long for cement authorities in the territory to keep their actions strictly proportional. and in a major foreign policy shift the u.s. says it no longer considers israeli settlements and palestinian territories in violation of international law callsigns of done the movers another blow to the

cause of peace. the state of your news live from the lens up next we have a look at venice under threat for now though from a brian thomas an entire news team thanks for being.

you. can. see venice and be glad that you still can. few other cities seem so close to call her mui. predecessor vibe industrialisation traffic and crowds are tourists but it may not survive climate change that has hundreds rather. close up next on c w. thanks to globalization we can buy

just about whatever we want whenever we. most people are aware that others pay the price for this casual consumption. but do they know how far reaching the consequences really are. trade wars refugee the great fallacy of the globalization. in 45 minutes on d w. look closely. carefully. don't look at least simply be nice to be a good. discovery

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