this is d.w. news live from berlin germany's ruling conservatives confront a crisis at the top of the party embattled c.d.u. leader and it could come khandala calls her critics bluff and challenges them directly back me or sack we'll bring you an update also on the program. as or a wife appears to go to the polls a crime wave sweeps the capital montevideo forcing the neighbors and shop owners to take a security into their own hands and as chinese authorities tighten border controls between hong kong and the mainland we talk to

a pro-democracy protesters who has been arrested at the border handcuffed and hooded by chinese police. i'm only an isa thanks for joining us the leader of the ruling christian democrats here in germany has issued an ultimatum in a debate over her leadership as the c.d.u. began its annual party conference and it could come caught on ballot told delegates that she was prepared to quit if they didn't back her common bower took over from chancellor merkel as city leader pat last year but the party's popularity has plunged under her leadership and taken a hit in recent regional elections i went away and took on the challenge i have to sever attacks in the weeks leading up to the city's ponty conference an update. post the big question. to help party colleagues and leipsic. many of them i

know say if you feel that the road i want to go down is not the road you want to follow then let us talk about that today and let does and it today here and now today. how did the 1000 delegates react with this 7 minute standing ovation continuing 190 minute speech the party that passionately our the policy measures she wants to pursue in the future. isn't enough to be the repair service of the republican we need to become the workshop of the future again that's our goal and that's what we want to do one time in my mind one of those in the audience was fleet ice melts revival that has attacked by k.k. several times in recent weeks this time he seemed surprisingly loyal under come combo a.k.k. gave a strong courageous and forward looking speech this morning. pray to god you are

so very grateful to her for that thank you via a loyal woman to our party leadership. and to the federal government chancellor merkel who has passed on the party leadership to come no longer takes part in these debates she used her opening speech to talk about more personal issues often make it so i thought i was on to is also a very special day for me i am fine because on november 22nd 2005 i was elected german chancellor for the 1st time and this remains something very special to me. is on me and their coats political child and they couldn't come. is giving it all at this conference and so far she is one at least for now. correspondent kate brady was at the c.d.u.

party conference and lives and she sent us this incessant. it was the showdown that never happened the c.d.u. party conference after months of criticism party to an exit come karrenbauer called her critics bluff telling them in short to back me or sack me so for now at least it seems that the issue of the party leadership has been removed from the table but with germany set to head to the polls once again in less in 2 years time a.k.k. now has a work to prove that she's still a worthy candidate in the meantime competition is still lining up within the cd you including one of her loudest critics matts despite mat's striking a somewhat more conciliatory tone than usual today he still likely to throw his hat into the ring in a bid to become angela merkel successor as the next german chancellor. that was due to correspondent kate brady reporting from the party conference and lapses. in

people will elect a president on sunday with polls suggesting the center right national party is on course to end a decade and a half of left wing rule and yet another power shift in latin america. national party candidate luis the son of former president finished 2nd in the 1st round with around 29 percent but in the upcoming runoff you can probably count on the votes from 5 mostly conservative parties that's why pollsters see him winning ahead of ruling party candidate danielle martinez he's a former minister and mayor of wise capital montevideo for the left wing broad front martin is one the 1st round vote with 39 percent. a long to do list awaits the next leader including the country's public security crisis the climate rate has hit the prime rate has hit historic highs with homicides rising by nearly 50 percent last year police are struggling to deal with the violence so some people are taking matters into their own hands

w w's nicole fairless has this story from monte video 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 montevideo spot of give idea area to 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 not about that of it didn't want to sit idly by and he wasn't the only one. there was some $800.00 families in the park neighborhood watch tonight 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 the. reason 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. no matter how much you give them i never know if they're going to turn around and shoot she was they'd like yes you know. 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. fear has spread through to give ideas like wildfire a collective anxiety that borders paranoia says a former member of the neighborhood watch. well. i was only signed up for a couple of months because it turned out to be a collective psychosis a mass manipulation to go out and hunt suspects. even though i was always on edge

wondering if i had had a whistle or not it's amazing how easy it is to be absorbed by the study nomic i felt ridiculous and i never felt protected it would go to the here. 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. knew not of those stops by to check on a shop owner who's been robbed 20 times already and. so often i don't want to say i'm 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. other times i just enough or they know what's broken we don't get to work it off.

an attitude the neighbors have part of 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 president on sunday will have to urgently get to work. now to some of the other stories making news around the world colombia's defense minister has confirmed the death of 3 people at rallies in the west of the country they were killed during nationwide demonstrations as part of a general strike against the policies of president yvonne duke is right wing government. at least 3 iraqi protestors have been killed and 25 injured in clashes with security forces in the capital baghdad more than 304. people have died since protests against widespread corruption and unemployment broke out last month in baghdad and southern iraq. and to government protestors and lebanon have marked 76 years of the country's independence by organizing

a parade in the capital beirut replacing the usual military show the country has been gripped by protest since mid october demanding the removal of politicians deemed inept and corrupt. now hong kong's police chief is urging a handful of protesters still barricaded inside the city's polytechnic university to surrender peacefully they've been holed up there since occupying the campus over the weekend it's 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 territory authorities have been targeting individual protesters correspondent is building a met with one of them now to protect his identity d.w. has changed the voice of this activist 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 would a 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 had begun systematically searching the phones of hong kong 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 that hong kong was allowed in 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 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 we believed 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 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. in the buddhist leaguer dortmund staged a remarkable comeback to draw 3 all at home to part of one sparing the blushes of their coach. born striker. scored twice in the 1st half as the bottom of the

table club stormed into 30 half time lead for dortmund turn the game around in the 2nd half captain marco roy's had a dramatic equaliser in injury time but a draw still might not be enough to save the under-fire fava with dortmund fans during the result as the final at the final whistle. russia's return to international athletics competition is in further doubt after the sport's governing body suspended the readmission process. took decision day after. officials were themselves suspended for anti-doping violations russia has been banned from international competitions since 2015 for systematic cheating and drug tests the country could now be kicked out of entirely. virgin. bird has won the opening race of the new racing season in saudi arabia the brit

started. driving. with overtaking on the circuit difficult bird made full use of his 2 power to move through the field he took the lead with 10 minutes to go and held on beating german manufacturers. on their series debuts. this is from berlin for more news on global stories visit our website www dot com thanks for watching. see how. you can do to improve your health.