this is deja vu news live from berlin chinese authorities tightening their grip on hong kong border controls are stepped up between the mainland and the territory we'll talk to a democracy protester who was arrested at the border coffee and put it by chinese police also coming up. israel's benjamin netanyahu is indicted on corruption

charges israeli prime minister has called the charges a coup and says he will not result. and chancellor merkel's conservatives launched their annual party conference with questions about its future direction after a string of regional elections setbacks the c.b.s. chair is under pressure and she could face a leadership. plus it is never too late to find a new passion take it from this cleaner in moscow at night trades in her pockets and mops were deep house and the dance school. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us on kong's police chief is urging the handful of protesters still barricaded inside the polytechnic university there to surrender peacefully now they've been. there since occupying the campus over the

weekend it's the latest confrontation in hong kong's almost 6 months now of anti-government protests mainland china has issued a series of increasingly tough warnings against those demonstrators and although beijing has not directly intervened in the territory authorities have been targeting individual protesters he. met with one of them he says he was arrested and beaten by police at the hong kong china border now to protect his identity g.w. has reversed his comments it started like a routine business trip and indeed in china a secret detention system stanley was crossing the border to mainland china when he will start. up police searched his phone and questioned him for several hours. then in the evening 2 police officers came they handcuffed me and put a black hood on my head then they took me away.

for fear of retribution we cannot show his face stanley wong is not his real name his accounts cannot be very fight independently but his story is in line with accounts from other detainees. at that time border police have begun systematically searching the phones of hong kong is crossing the border between hong kong and the mainland. the photo of wong attending a peaceful march in june caught their attention he explained it was unauthorized march and hong kong allowed him to participate but they wouldn't listen. they said this was about a matter of national security and that it wasn't up to me to decide what in danger in it means national security is above all other laws where national security is concerned they said we can catch you in hong kong or any other place in the world. one was held in a single cell that had been covered in soft material

a glass door was translucent from the outside only lights left permanently on over and over they interrogated him asking about photos on his vote and contacts to foreign nationals i had to crouch like this for the whole generation of the interrogation they placed me right under an air conditioner with the wind blowing at me constantly each interrogation lasted a few hours. and whenever they thought i didn't sit well they would beat me like this. punch my back or kick me in the legs. the number of people who've been detained at the border remains and no one says he was able to catch glimpses into other cells that help people and believes with fellow hong kong escort at the border after 36 hours he was released. my family tried to ask the public security where i was but they just wouldn't say anything the police

even denied they knew me and that i had crossed the border i understood that i could easily be disappeared any time. he's dealt with the experience quite well he says and he won't let it stop him but now crosses the border his heart starts to beat a little faster. let's bring in the reporter now who filed that forrest you have used the ts berlinger joining us from beijing today g u m a t s m and he is is there any way to know how widespread this violent form of intimidation is right now. it's very hard to say what we know is that he specially in august there was the compay to intimidate hong kong those at the border by searching their phones and questioning them most people were stopped at the border they were questioned at the border and then let's go off to

a few hours these cases like mans that we just saw where people were taken away into secret prisons all into occasion facilities. much rarer what we know is for of course the case of one. british consulate employee simon schama who was held there for 15 days and who has just given an account off torture that was much worse than what our man here describes ok so we're not only talking about torture though we're also talking about as stanley wang expressed one of his fears of being disappeared now now what is being disappeared and how much of a threat is that for hong kong protesters. well people can be disappeared in china at any time they would be taken into some facilities that

a specially run we know from mainland chinese disappeared that they can be held to several months even more than a year in these detention facilities without their relatives being noticed i am not aware of any case of people during this protest movement having been disappeared in this way what we hear off or what we know off is that there have been allegations earlier one hong kong bookseller disappeared for several months in a chinese detention center and he says he was kidnapped from hong kong streets again this is a brutal toolkit if we can call that that the chinese authorities are putting together how effective is intimidation right now for the protesters in hong kong. the effect that and intimidation has out so far is to stir up peoples and go we're seeing several tactics of intimidation these border controls that by the way

applied also to join of this although not joining list was being detained at a border there were just one set the other set is to ramp up the police action and the police brutality also the weaponry off the police to crack down harder on protesters what we're seeing this week this siege off the university that some protesters have occupied is of course a tactics that has little in common with riot control and more in common with warfare or combating terrorists who have occupied or taken hostage off a certain place so all these tactics have not been able to keep people off the streets and they have contributed their part in making the radicals more radical and escalating violence so it is quite unclear what china is aiming to achieve with

these tactics at the moment mathias billing and thanks very much for that report and for our talk this morning from beijing while israel is in political turmoil after its attorney general announced he's filing criminal charges against the prime minister benjamin netanyahu now he's been indicted for bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases the prime minister has denied any wrongdoing he's calling the criminal case against him politically motivated then yahoo is battling to stay in power after september's elections produced no clear winner. the israeli prime minister remains defiant as he addresses the country following his indictment and which record. you have to be blind not to see that something bad is happening with the police and the prosecutors tonight we're witnessing an attempted coup with false allegations and a tainted investigation. that investigation lasted

years on thursday israel satori need general announced his decision to formally press charges. when the attorney general decides to indict and acting prime minister after severe charges of corruption is it difficult. for the israeli public and for me personally. the cases against prime minister benjamin netanyahu are known as case 1000 new to now and his family are suspected of receiving gifts from business colleagues and close friends case 2000 covers allegations that newton yahoo attempted to influence the publisher of a daily newspaper to gain more positive coverage the recommended charges in both cases fraud and breach of trust and case $4000.00 allegations of regulatory favors for israel's largest telecommunications company in exchange for positive media

coverage the charges here fraud breach of trust and bribery netanyahu has rejected all the accusations and says he will continue to leave the country he's immunity as prime minister means he won't be legally forced to resign but his political future hangs by a thread he has failed to form a government after 2 consecutive elections and he now faces a legal process that could drag on for years. joining us now here in the studio is the mideast analyst shall you resign or if you show us you know the fighting but even that young he's the longest serving prime minister in israel can he manage to survive this politically well i know better than to say these are his last days all men too many commentators have fallen into that trap in the last years when things seemed to be getting dire and dire it is however this time serious more than ever and we have seen even before the charges were brought we saw yesterday morning

already people from his own party challenging him calling for primaries calling for elections for the leadership of the likud because he was not contested since 2014 so if we see his own base. starting to rise against him and we will see we've seen also in the 2nd elections as a roshan mostly of the right not of the left so going for a 3rd round of elections we might see to it to now include the right bloc be the ones suffering the most ok no we're not reported that he could survive this politically for a number of years is it really possible what he's trying to do it was clear yesterday in the speech he's starting his campaign in his his lines fight this is an ego illegitimate attempt of the lefty elite to bring down the right and me as the sitting prime minister it can't work it can resonate with his audience especially and we need to remember his coalition he has a mini coalition with some other parties in the parliament who are supporting the block the 55 bloc 2 of the leaders of the parties connected to that bloc there is a self are facing charges so they don't have

a particular interest in being kind to the police this time line of campaign serves them very well so so benjamin and you know could remain potentially in office is just a for at least 3 weeks well at least 3 weeks unless we i mean if we see a major political earth shake it should probably ensue in the next week otherwise we will probably see him for the next couple of months until the 3rd term of election is coming probably early march 3rd of march and he can definitely stay in office until then if something happens next and into the spring right now opposition leader bennigan's is saying there's no way he can stay in office by pointing out that any decisions of state he makes could be for personal reasons it's not going to play out in the new election campaign you mention of course i mean of course everybody is you know getting geared for their new campaign but this is the question exactly the question is supreme court will have to will have to determine because there's no doubt whatever comes now whatever political scenario comes whatever happens in the knesset in the parliament that is it's going to end

up being decided by the supreme court someone will appeal from either side and the supreme court will have to decide this is a president that the have to set can a sitting prime minister also be one. fighting actively you know charges against him where does turmoil leave the country you have to ask who's running the country well officially that to now his government they're still in office it's clear the greats the nation we talk about budget when you talk about the need for social services everybody is realizing this is not an ideal situation the last round in gaza last week have shown us the things are very shaky this is partially why the hope and the expectation of meant to step down is you know is something that is unrealistic he is not he feels he uses this instability as a as a as a proof of why he needs to stay and keep you know his hold tight over the government even though it's not as tight as he wishes it could expand even his base as you mentioned charlie was honest thanks so much for coming in john. you know in

some of those stories making the news this hour u.s. lawmakers have wrapped up public impeachment hearings against president trump councillor david holmes describing the overheard telephone calls about a probe into trump's democratic political rival former trump adviser fiona hill rejected claims that it was ukraine not russia that meddled in the u.s. elections. police and protesters of plastering rallies in the colombian capital bogota tens of thousands of demonstrators opposed to the policies of president even duke a hold for more economic equality expressed concerns about plans to raise the pension age and lower the minimum wage. the spanish coast guard has rescued 79 migrants off the canary islands after this spend 6 days see the group was taken to a port in southern gran canaria where they received medical attention. here in germany after a series of stinging regional elections setbacks all i'm ackles c.d.u.

is meeting for a party congress later today to lay out its future course nichols no longer head of that party and her successor as leader on a great come current power is struggling in the polls so this gathering in leipzig could see another battle over who will succeed on the macro as the party's choice for german chancellor. outside c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin the greenpeace activist makes off with the letter c from the party's logo inside the building a struggle to define the party's future is looming a year ago and. embraced her political godmother angela merkel after succeeding her as the leader of the conservative c.d.u. party but the man she narrowly defeated for the job hasn't given up on his chances of one day succeeding angela merkel. math left politics more than a decade ago after losing an internal power struggle to machall now with the end of the mcaleer insight he's trying to make a comeback. and

a great crime can be hours climb to the top of the party was soon followed by a rapid descent in the opinion polls within less than a year her approval ratings have more than half. following the cd use poor performance in regional elections in eastern germany in september the leader of the party's youth organization confronted crime karrenbauer with the leadership question opening the firing shot in a debate that has since overshadowed her double role as party leader and german defense minister. karrenbauer decided to take the challenge head on. whoever believes that the question of leadership needs to be decided this fall will have the opportunity to do that at the party conference within hours her political rival friedrich was back with the sweeping attack. the whole appearance of the government is a disaster. under pressure to demonstrate

a more conservative profile karrenbauer launched a series of strategic debates pledging more german engagement in the world. a new tone partly contradicting merkel and more in tune with her would be challenger commands. as the party conference neared he suddenly began to tone down his criticism he how do you think your own fault i found harsh words to criticize the government proposed 3 weeks ago you know what's what's in the heart of a lot of close friends have since taken me aside don't want me not to go too far right so green party insiders fear a damaging debate over the cd use next chancellor candidate it could overshadow important policy discussions at that conference this weekend delegates face important decisions on the direction of the party in the post macro era. and we'll have more from that conference later today now

a major hydroelectric project on ethiopia's blue nile river has countries downstream fearing for their water supplies called the grand ethiopian renaissance dam project has sparked a diplomatic dispute with egypt which depends on the nile of course for its freshwater concerns of also been voiced in neighboring sudan but not everyone downstream is opposing this project. for people living along the blue nile in sudan the river is both a blessing and a curse during the rainy season the rivers unpredictable flow causes flash floods those have already killed a 60 people this year but this may end when neighboring ethiopia completes construction on the grander nascence dam which promises to regulate the rivers flow . sudanese farmers downstream welcomed the grand plan. when you know there was a blue nile is very unpredictable tonight the level of water will be low tomorrow

it will swallow houses and sometimes it floods this plantation before we have time to stop it or will the flooding allows for just one harvest per year and that also limits the types of crops that can be planted but once the river flow is under control more intensive agriculture can be practiced it's a different story for sudanese brick makers they depend on silt washed down from the ethiopian highlands to make bricks which are then baked in riverside kilns with the new dam in place there will be fewer silt deposits and less income for the brick makers. and the island this silt comes to us from the estuary there from the ethiopian plateau. with the dam the still don't come any more but in the middle of the a google one of. the hydroelectric project is set for completion in 2022 with the main aim being to boost ethiopia's electricity output and saddam stands to benefit

from that development. has said. this dam provides sudan with electricity that benefits manufacturing economic growth and is this dana bill development in all sectors. as farmers along the blue nile deal with the rivers unpredictability the future of traditional livelihoods on its banks seems destined to change for ever. going to check in with some other stories now legal closure for a crime that shocked the nation a jury in new zealand has found a 27 year old man guilty of the murder of british backpacker raisman lane she was killed on the eve of her 22nd birthday just days after arriving in all her parents who president court throughout the trial say the killing has ripped their lives apart. but francis has urged people in thailand not to consider catholicism a foreign religion. on the final day of his visit to the mainly buddhist country he

paid tribute to catholics who suffered for their faith past the pontiff also condemned the exploitation of women and children for prostitution in time. footage has emerged of a space x. rocket prototype rupturing during pressure testing that was in texas on wednesday now this is a prototype for the company's starship rocket billed as an all purpose transport system for the future become but he says it will no longer fly this version and move on to a new one for further testing. now some people live to work others while they live to play even if that calling comes later in life one example a cleaner in the russian capital moscow who discovered a new passion that helps pay the bills as well the w.'s emily share when reports from the depths for. zarina his love for music is

infectious she's been deejaying for almost 4 years and now performs around once a month at events and clubs in the russian capital playing drum and bass house and the lecture. zarina is 57 years old and is originally from was back to stop but when she plays age doesn't matter and neither does nationality. the thing i like the most is when everyone dances i even danced with them myself. zarina came to moscow from summer can't 20 years ago to earn money for her family back home now she cleans offices in the city center including at this school when she heard the electronic music people were playing here she loved it and decided to take lessons as well. she still practices at the school after cleaning before the other students arrive. music helps me i work

a lot it can be tiring when i come here i forget everything it's all about the music i can play for 5 or 6 hours straight music gives me strength and it puts me in a good mood. some rena doesn't speak english or read latin letters so she memorizes the cover art for tracks when she wants to use them and play lists. of the arena's teacher at the school suggest songs he thinks she might like he says arena is an important member of the school's close knit community and she's an inspiration for a new students. but unfortunately people often think that someone who came from a different country who's a bit older who has a different nationality might not be able to learn how to. be she sure everyone that it works and that anything is possible because. the poor child's. serena's

one of several 1000000 migrants in russia central asian immigrants often face discrimination in the country but serena says she's never had problems. when a person is heartfelt when a person talks to everyone is friends with everyone they are taken in by people as their own that's what i think i think it depends on the person. sorry not always and her act by dancing with her audience to use that pop music in a traditional national costume at homes or reno is a teacher and someday she hopes to start her own d.j. school back in respect to keep spreading the joy. we have some football now the bundesliga resumes on friday with dortmund hosting bottom of the pack potter born black and yellow as are looking to bounce back after a better 4 no loss to byron munich now if dortmund don't beat struggling they could

find themselves in a real crisis they're currently 6 than the table ardley good enough for a team loaded with stars. now the league hasn't been this competitive in years and dortmund would expect to be doing far better as they look to win their 1st championship since 2012 but goes a coach loose in the fog appears relaxed despite the fact a bad result could cost him his job. in the n.l. it was hot for 10 days it was hard to stomach and it took time but of course we have to look ahead but seldom. now how do you transform plastic waste into a floating paradise a startup in the ivory coast has turned a pressing environmental problem into a business opportunity a floating resort in the middle of obvious john's lagoon sits atop 700000 recycled plastic bottles facilities on the island include a hotel 2 swimming pools

a karaoke bar proving that one person's trash is indeed another's treasure. this is g.w. news coming to you from berlin up next is tomorrow today our science show i am brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being here.

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