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and then incredible location. on t w. i n. this is e w news live from violating the chinese authorities tighten their grip on hong kong border controls all stick between mainland and the territory will talk to a democracy protester who was arrested out of the border handcuffed and herded by chinese police also coming up israel's benyamin netanyahu is indicted on corruption
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charges israeli prime minister has called the move a coup and says he will not resign. and chancellor angela merkel's conservatives will chat. with questions about its future direction after a string of regional election setbacks you see the news channel is under pressure and she could face a leadership challenge. plus it's never too late to find a new passion take it from this cleaner in moscow at night she trades in her buckets a multi for deep house and the ducks for all. time helena humphrey glad you could join me hong kong's police chief says urging a handful of protest is still barricaded inside the polytechnic university that he surrendered peacefully they have been holed up since occupying the cow. this over
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the weekend is the latest confrontation in hong kong's 5 months of anti-government protests mainland china has issued a series of increasingly tough warnings against the demonstrators and although beijing has not directly intervened in the territorial thirty's have been targeting individual protest as correspondent he is putting a met with one of them and he says that he was arrested and beaten by police at the hong kong china border to protect his identity has changed the activists is voice in this next report 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 was stopped border 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.
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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 had begun systematically searching the phones of hong kong was 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 the glass door was translucent
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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 whom he believes were 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
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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 when he crosses the border his heart starts to beat a little faster. but his voting us and us that report and he joins us now from beijing welcome to you mathias is there any way to know how widespread this intimidation of protesters is. there are no numbers that we know what we know is that some time during summer police started systematically checking people's phones at the border and questioning them if they had any compromising material that could be messages on or that could also be photos off protests. how many people would see currently detained is completely unclear most people were
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questioned at the border and then they were let go after a few hours or even quicker but this seems like a method of intimidation at the time one employee off the british consulate in hong kong was teached to was detained as well he was held for 15 days and he. just just this week he gave an account of the torture that has happened to him and that is much worse than the man we talked to now you reported to assist anyone talked about his fear of being disappeared and essentially how much of a risk is this for hong kong processed as. well many people in hong kong reconsider any travel plans to the mainland at the moment within the mainland being disappeared something that frequently happens to dissidents they can disappear for much longer periods for 6 months or you can for more than
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a year and there are accounts of torture of much worse than those that we've heard of hong kong those that we know about so far. 4 people being kidnapped within hong kong and being disappeared from there we have no cases that are known to us during these protests some are however for high profile protesters i wouldn't exclude it their work ace is in the past one bookseller for example disappeared at some point he is contention is forced confession reappeared later on chinese t.v. and when he was released much later he said that he was kidnapped in hong kong and with that in mind would you say that over all these tactics of intimidation are they working. well besides the intimidation that is exercised directly by the mainland chinese or storage he's like of these border controls or people who have been disappeared in the mainland in relation to the protest mainland
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supporters of the protests several so being disappeared there is of course tactics of escalation and intimidation of protesters on the ground mainly by the hong kong police we see that they are much more violent and they used to be in the beginning detentions have risen a few 1000 people have been detained although few of them have been charged so far but all these tactics seem to have no effect on the protests at all if anything they tend to radicalize people further so that support for the protesters has not vanished people do blame the escalation mostly on the government and on the police . all right mathias putting it in beijing for us thank you well israel is in a pen mexico turmoil after his attorney general announced that he is filing criminal charges against prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's being indicted for bribery
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food and breach of trust increased separate cases the prime minister has denied wrongdoing and calls the criminal case politically motivated netanyahu is battling to stay in power after september the elections produced no clear winner. the israeli prime minister remains defiant as he addresses the country following his indictment and it was look at that if you go up you have to be blind not to see that something bad is happening with the police and the prosecutor is tonight we're witnessing an attempted coup with full salary gay sions and a tainted investigation you haven't ridden. 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 for severe charges of corruption which is a difficult and sad to say the israeli public and for me personally the punitive
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both in. the cases against prime minister benjamin netanyahu are known as case 1010 yeah when his family are suspected of receiving gifts from business colleagues and close friends case 2000 covers allegations that netanyahu 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 lead the country he's in unity 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
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a legal process that could drag on for years on his walk through this now i'm joined here in the studio by the middle east analyst sean here is on his welcomes you shiny netanyahu israel's longest serving prime minister can he hold on this time while he's definitely going to try. legally still has a possibility to hold on to power but we've seen him challenge by his own party members already yesterday before the charges were announced so he's going to be the next 1000 days where there's a possibility to form a 3rd a 3rd chance to form a government that's where that's going to be crucial time we might be expecting a major political in the next week or so would some of his you know internal. voices within his party challenging him and. then if something breaks down its going to happen in next week or so i'd say and it's interesting to see that pivotal moment within his own party but unsurprisingly the person who wants to be in power opposition leader benny gantz has called for him to resign netanyahu says that he
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won't but there's a concern that perhaps netanyahu at least from dance's side will use the power of his office to protect himself right have we seen any indications of that in the past well depends on cynical you are you know in many ways people think this is what he's been doing for quite some time there's no down that now things have changed least when it comes to how the public sees it and he cannot keep on going the way he has before he needs to be far more careful. legally he can still stay in power of course this is still needs to be determined and we can see the technician and the the deadlock in israeli politics it's not looking good and he knows that he understands he's been his support is slowly eroded into stand he's not in the most it doesn't have a strong hand as he had just a couple months ago and that deadlock just how israelis feel about they'd still don't have a stable government they could have to go to the polls again and now these
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corruption charges do you think that could sway them it will it might in might there's great fatigue people are just fed up people can't believe they're still witnessing this you know ongoing battle between politicians we've seen these allegations going back and forth and last week everybody were gearing up towards their companions it was quite clear there was very little honesty people see through that many of them you can see online on social media many of them are just fed up saying you know i'm i'm not working for the government the government should be working for me and this is not happening something's wrong in the system can it's you know use this he might just as well if we see a drop in the percentage in general percent those are just people participating in the election that might work in his favor it would be very interesting to watch indeed china resign as and analyzing it for us thank you jenny. a 2nd look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. will make us have wrapped up public impeachment hearings against president donald trump counselor david holmes described the over telephone calls about
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a probe into trump's democratic rival joe biden former white house adviser a few on the hill rejected claims that ukraine russia metals in the u.s. and the actions of the spanish coast guard has rescued $79.00 migrants off the canary islands off they spent 6 days at sea the group was taken to uproot in southern gran canaria where they receive medical attention. police and protesters have clashed during rallies in the colombian capital bogota tens of thousands of demonstrators opposed to the policies of president even took a call for more economic report they expressed concerns about alleged clowns to raise the pension age and know what the minimum wage. when you're a guy goes to the polls on sunday to elect a new president and a long to do list awaits the next leader in creating the country's public security crisis the crime rate has hit historic highs with homicides rising by 46 percent
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last year alone police are struggling to cope so some people are taking matters into their own hands. clearly has the story from want to do surveillance cameras on every corner but it's not big brother who's watching it's desperate citizens trying to protect their businesses and property in month details but a given area 2 cars are stolen every day break ins and armed robbery have become a part of daily life in this upper middle class neighborhood. fearing for the safety of his wife and daughter. didn't want to sit idly by and he wasn't the only one. there was some $800.00 families in the park a neighborhood watch today we work with what's not groups and whistles that's how we alert each other. if we hear the whistle we immediately know one of our neighbors is asking for help. you know.
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reasons to ask for help abound this little dry cleaners has been attacked so many times that its owner will only ever unlock the door for people she knows. my business has been broken into 6 times and once i was held up at gunpoint. by the dog i don't matter how much you give them i never know if they're going to turn around and shoot she was they'd like yes. i'm getting therapy now to help me get over it because now i live in fear but i didn't used to be the case. of. fear has spread through but it gave a year like wildfire a collective anxiety that borders paranoia says a former member of the neighborhood watch. me i was only signed up for a couple of months because it turned out to be a collective psychosis
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a mass manipulation to go out and hunt suspects. even i was always on edge wondering if i had heard a whistle or not it's amazing how easy it is to be absorbed by the star nomic i felt ridiculous and i never felt protected. to hear. but a lot of people do feel safer being a part of the neighborhood watch with authorities unable to control the rising crime rates they find solace in community. no not of those stops by to check on a shop owner who's been robbed 20 times already. so often i don't want to see him getting used to it because having to live with it is awful . and then something happens one of the usual suspects steps into the store and leon immediately texts his neighbors something he has come to find more helpful than calling the police. i probably called them 10 times before
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that of other times i just enough little in the works what we don't get to work off . an attitude the neighbors of park give idea are hoping to see adopted by the new government for them to feel like they can let their guard down a lot needs to be cleaned up and fixed so wherever it takes the presidency on sunday will have to urgently get to work you're watching the news still to come we'll meet a woman he longs for almost by day as rocks the don'ts for all. that ahead but 1st german chancellor i'm going to christina democratic union has kicked off a 2 day party conference in light sic now officially the question of party leadership is not on the agenda but it is still expected to play a role since maclin else last year that she would not run as chancellor again there has been a power struggle within the party on top of that the conservatives are under
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pressure from all sides to maintain that position as the dominant party in german politics. while the cd use nida anika that come cattle battle has been addressing party members and she started by trying to dispel doubts about her ability for the job. the earth isn't hard today we're talking about the future about the steps that are necessary so that in 10 years time germany will continue to be a successful and attractive country it's not enough to just paper over the cracks we need to be in incubate of innovation that is our goal that is what we want to achieve today all of us together. on time in the mind's eye. and in leipzig is our chief political editor now we can join her now party and it can a power is not on controversial her popularity in opinion polls has dwindled of late
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with that in mind how was her address there just received. she's actually still speaking right now and she's clearly mapping out that the party needs to be a lot more future oriented we just heard from her once again highlighting the point she made as defense minister saying that germany will have to take more responsibility in the future also militarily something that was received as very controversial also within her own party she said it's not a popular top topic but germany would have to face that and without mentioning way the technology provider from china she did stress what will also be debated here that there must be no doubts about the technology used internees 5 g. technology network should not have any kind of influence or allow influence from foreign states so she's really trying to project that image into the future that she can take both the country but also the party further in its own debates now she
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does have rivals they're one of them is. what do her rivals criticized her for. technically is a rival who was beaten year ago in the race for the party leadership he still believes that he is the right man to become future chancellor and that's why this party now has an internal debate over who could potentially be the next chancellor candidate something in the political tradition of the c.d.u. was always the party leader so that's what i think it was up against interestingly on issues like the basic pension she actually spoke to feverish who is known as an expert in the field before finding a compromise with the coalition partner and it seems that there are less and less points where they really are very far apart so it's safe to say that this is
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becoming increasingly about personalities and somebody technically defeated not wanting to give up his claim to succeed. we're talking about of course someone else who is there and has delivered an address on the podium none other than the chancellor angela merkel but apart from that i mean she is taking a back seat is there a specific reason for that. she has stressed time and time again that she wants to give it to and it could come as a new party leader at the same time she is the german chancellor she's the manifestation of political power for the seaview and she has a very very long shadow indeed she got one minute and 38 seconds of standing ovations even before she started speaking here on to the day 14 years after she 1st became german chancellor so she's trying to take a back seat but it will be
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a very long goodbye from party politics even indeed absolutely shy as she may our chief political editor for us at the c.d.u. party conference thank you. now some people if so what others live to play even if that calling comes a bit later in life one example a cleaner in the russian capital moscow who discovered a new passion that also helps to pay the bills. when reports now from the downs 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 electro. zarina is 57 years old and is originally from was back to stand 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.
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zarina came to moscow from summer conned 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 so 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 he puts me in a good mood. serina doesn't speak english or read latin letters so she memorizes the cover art for
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tracks when she wants to use them and play lists. of the arenas 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 new students when it was more because i was with 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 d.j. which would be sure everyone that it works and that anything is possible because of . 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. serena
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always ends her act by dancing with her audience to use their pop music in a traditional national costume at holmes arena was a teacher and someday she hopes to start her own d.j. school back in its back to stand to keep spreading the joy of. this is the news these are all top stories hong kong's police chief protests is still barricaded inside the polytechnic university there to surrender peacefully the standoff follow some of the worst violence since anti-government demonstrations escalated and she. is ready prime minister binyamin netanyahu has been indicted on corruption charges and will face trial on charges of bribery food and breach of trust he rejected the indictment as an attempted coup. the former top. rusher advisor to the white house wrist rejected some u.s. lawmakers claims that ukraine not russia meddled in the 2016 election 6 x.
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8 here in the hill called the claim a fictional narrative on the last day of public impeachment hearings against president trump. because members of german chancellor angela merkel's christian democratic union have gathered in leipsic for the annual congress c.d.u. leader and it came to come can about one has been trying to dispel doubts over her ability for the job having battled poor approval ratings since her lection last year was. this is do you know news from by lane for more follow us on twitter at d w news over that our website w dot com. dr
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