this is deja vu news live from berlin and china is carrying out an intense global attack on human rights that's according to human rights watch the group releases its annual report in new york after being denied entry to hong kong it accuses beijing of overseeing the most brutal and pervasive oppression in decades and of attacking human rights globally also coming up china in the u.s.

prepared to sign phase one of a deal in that ending their trade war but with nature issues still on resolved we ask what's next for the world's 2 biggest economies. and storming the stasi east germany's secret police were feared they were also hated today it's 30 years since angry citizens an activist forced their way into stasi headquarters in east berlin their courage prevented the destruction of millions of files as the communist state collapsed. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us china poses an existential threat to international human rights now that is the assessment of a new report released by human rights watch u.s. based group condemning what it calls china's domestic repression and its attempts

to censor its critics abroad the group is calling on the international community to challenge beijing's actions or face what it describes as a quote dystopian future. well the head of human rights watch was due to release that report in hong kong but he was denied entry there he held a press conference instead in new york city here's what he had to say the chinese government is trying with increasing ferocity to use its economic and diplomatic clout to silence critical voices abroad and undermine global institutions that protect human rights china's obviously long censored critics at home the government is now trying to extend that censorship to the rest of the world kenneth roth there hong kong is just one of the focal points of china's repression and activists there saying beijing is using the territories police to enforce a policy of ever greater brutality but's of support for the communist party's law

and among the police in hong kong is not universal some are risking their jobs or worse by speaking out mathias berlinger filed this report when david chan joined to hong kong police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david chan is not his real name. they say was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on a university campus hong kong police had come under massive attack. and david says it's not only the physical threats that affect morale. they've been working long hours they've been blamed fingers pointed at them it's very exhausting both physically and mentally. this is what he's talking about

criticizing and if you could sing at the police many offices are on edge they've been accused of indiscriminate arrests beating up subdued protesters and threatening to shoot tear gas into apartments if videos of alleged police brutality circulating online. bystanders would get into arguments with officers risk getting pepper sprayed a clear violation of the rules as david. i'm just frustrated because some offices really just like the protesters and honestly they really want to beat them up but i think this isn't the right mentality we should be impartial as police offices we shouldn't take sides he says he's currently doing as much as 100 hours of overtime every month while he isn't serving at the frontline as he often has to be at the site of demonstrations david is hiding his identity feel being bullied by protesters online and he worries about professional repercussions.

as a member of the hong kong police force i shouldn't be criticizing it in public but as a citizen of hong kong i have to say the senior officers have basically messed it up . officials deny the police have done anything wrong the police has been the focus of the demonstrators since june when they 1st violently broke up a protest. since then public anger has steadily grow especially among the young david says most of his friends have turned their back on him in the past 6 months. i was a bit upset about it because they were my good friends but then i thought about it there's nothing i can do. he says several of his colleagues have quit their jobs but while he's at all it's with the current tactics he has no intention to me.

i should be staying in the police force and try to maintain the right mentality and to uphold the values of the police. it's a tough challenge for david stuck between loyalty and. let's go now straight to beijing indeed have used mathias bowling out for more about that new human rights report about china oppression china's oppression and suppression of human rights a date you mathias can you fill us in on some of the reports details that shows china working for quote dystopian future at home and abroad. well we have just seen one example of. china's repression which is hong kong where human rights organisations have accused china and the hong kong police and the hong kong government that is dependant on china of restricting the previously quite liberal freedoms of this city there are of course the

very grim examples of the suppression of weak where we are seeing the biggest internment off an ethnic group probably since the end of world war 2 and the massive surveillance state that has been installed in this in john region but increasingly also throughout china we have seen increasing arrests during the past few years of human rights activists might use torture etc etc etc all this is not new what the report now details about is the mechanisms that china is using to suppress criticism abroad outside of china this is the probably the most disturbing part of the report certainly for people abroad where it is human rights watch consider china's threat to human rights over seas most severe is their specific area.

well one of the groups for example that have really really been targeted the week is brought they have been threatened abroad they have been threats there that their family members have disappeared and there are all of this was used to suppress their criticism chinee groups of pro-government supporters have been mobilized for example on universities across the world to counter protests against china's human rights. record and there have has also been pressure on the human rights mechanisms the international human rights mechanisms as well as on countries that are financially dependent on china to support china's oppression policies for example in syngenta ok now this report also says that china's

leadership is quote scared of its own people is that the sense that you have from your time reporting in china. brian this is a very tough question because we need to be careful with public opinion in china we do not have and so is we know that there are all kinds of opinions exist. but we do not really know to what extent. they re presented in the population what we have seen however and this is. something that i would support that whatever news are leaked whenever there have been investigative reports and there have been more in the past when press control was less strict about abuses of power public reaction immediately is there and that. the public anger builds up very quickly so what i think what we can clearly say is that this system

of governance in china would not be able the power of the communist party would definitely not survive in the way it is exercise now without this massive repression and this massive censorship dida the ts billing on mathias thanks very much for bringing us up to date on this new report let's get your brief down some of the other stories making the news today britain france and germany have formally accused iran of violating the terms of the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear program you foreign policy g.p.s. a borough saying the aim is to bring tehran back into compliance but it could spell the end of the accord and return to sanctions. protests in lebanon turning violent tuesday as demonstrators attacked the central bank in the capital beirut and clashed with police after a lot of the months long protest people are back on the streets for what they're calling a week of anger aimed to pressure the country's political elite into taking action

over lebanon's worst economic crisis in decades. german chancellor has invited the 2 rival governments of libya to berlin this weekend along with other regional power brokers it's a bid to rescue a peace deal and strengthen a shaky cease fire it comes just a day after the powerful warlord. left the moscow peace conference without signing the truce drafted at the talks there. the talks were meant to bring an end to the conflict in libya and be a diplomatic victory for russia and turkey but after general. left the talks in moscow without agreeing to a long term truce they appeared to end in failure speaking to media a day after a while with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov played down the outcome saying the peace plan put forward by moscow in ankara was still a work in progress. representatives of libyan society met in moscow

with the participation of the russian and turkish foreign and defense ministers we will continue our work on this track so far there has been no definitive outcome. libya has seen heavy fighting for months the country's internationally recognized administration the government of national accord led by fire. is based in tripoli it's facing up our challenge from general have todd's rival administration based in the east of the country and the city of tal broke. after calling themselves the libyan national army are reportedly being assisted by russia and regional allies egypt saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . meanwhile ankara along with the united nations is backing tripoli's government of national accord. earlier this month turkey's parliament gave president red one the green light to send troops to tripoli. and after the moscow talks failed to offer

a solution on tuesday the other one provided a clear warning. there you know that the vigil in the coming days we will be closely following the choices that the coup plotter haft and the country's legitimate government will make. in the event that attacks against the country's legitimate government and our libyan brothers continue we will never refrain from giving hafter the lesson he deserves i did literally just. now the focus moves from moscow to berlin german chancellor angela merkel has invited top officials from a host of countries for peace talks on sunday in the hope that this time around something might be different. in the us the race to decide which democrat will challenge dom of donald trump in the presidential election is heating up the top 6 candidates have faced off in a final televised debate among them former vice president joe biden among senator bernie sanders and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren for the democratic

presidential hopefuls was the last chance to get their message across to a national audience before the iowa caucuses begin the democratic primaries in 3 weeks time polls suggest this race will be very tight as the foreign policy. water 18 months of bruising economic conflict the u.s. and china are due to sign what they're calling phase one of a trade agreement that would see the u.s. ease some of the sanctions on china u.s. has agreed to stop labeling china as a currency manipulator ahead of that signing in washington d.c. for its part beijing will step up its purchases of u.s. farm products manufactured goods like aircraft and services economists are calling the deal modest but there are hopes it will prevent further escalation in the conflict that has slowed global economic growth hurt u.s. exporters and weighed on the chinese economy. so is this

a cause for hope for the global economy for more i'm joined by chris colfer from good of you business money for your dress. you details are starting to emerge we're looking at china pledging to buy energy agricultural products 18000000000 888-0000 even more in manufactured goods is this all a workable roadmap well experts call the plan ambitious and that. ought to raise eyebrows there are doubts whether these goals can be fulfilled particularly when it's when it comes to commodities. i recall 2 products $30000000000.00 more the chinese are supposed to buy from the united states $30000000000.00 more mind you in 2017 the total thing was $24000000000.00 so $30000000000.00 more in 2 years some people call that shocking many when you look to energy products 50000000000 more also quite ambitious given that the export of energy products from the us to china was at about 8000000000 recent years ok when i hear of those not

a good culture number something of the soy farmers around us a very important locker of the trump base what about the us did washington a get the better end of this deal with beijing well from what we see so far from the deal it seems like washington was able to get a lot of their demands written into it apart from the figures we discussed who mentioned it and china agreed to not artificially manipulate its currency anymore that certainly was something that the trump administration and other u.s. administrations have been limiting about we have to see of all the promises can be fulfilled as i said the numbers are quite challenging but u.s. treasury secretary steve minutia said the terms of the deal are enforceable so we'll see ok we have a signing later today in washington president trump will be sitting down right that's right with the chinese vice premier who he that's right yeah and this whole deal though isn't sealed yet we're still looking at a phase 2 down the road. coming up subsequently in the sanctions on while way right

intellectual property rights will be figuring there and you mentioned the biggest stumbling blocks there when it comes to intellectual property rights beijing was very reluctant to move in the past and when we talk while way that is a huge challenge there have been reports that the u.s. government could soon expand its powers to block foreign shipments to huawei. as as a means of providing them with with equipment and we have to understand that quite way. to the chinese is a huge symbolism it is and it is of beacon of how china emerged into this economic and tech power and any restrictions on huawei will be difficult to negotiate ok it's been 18 bruising months for a lot of companies you say for the global economy but a lot of people are saying the fight with china the dollar trump picked was one that ultimately needed to be fought that's right that's why donald trump has

a lot of support across the aisle in washington when it comes to facing china and dealing with china there are some democrats that are more hawkish on china than donald trump is so they're happy that somebody in the end stood up to them we have to remind ourselves that the u.s. has a $300000000000.00 trade deficit with china and so they're addressing this numbers now but there is a 2nd part to the story. you know this whole deal getting into a fight with china could could help trump politically because we see is based you mentioned on the farmers there usually rural and rule areas skeptic towards globalism to globalization so if they can now sell more products to china get a better deal do more business that might end up being profitable right ok we'll see where is one and phase 2 that are headed chris thanks for that. in other news today australian authorities have installed traps at

a major dam in new south wales to prevent ash from the area's bushfires from contaminating drinking water the warragamba dam is sydney's main source of fresh water officials fear that the heavy rain is forecast in the coming days could pollute the water. in the u.s. dozens of people are being treated for minor skin long problems after a passenger plane dump fuel over several schools the airliner was making an emergency return to los angeles international airport after experiencing mechanical issues the federal aviation authority is investigating. spanish authorities say at least one person has died after tuesday's explosion at a chemical factory in the northeastern city of tara gonna at least 6 others were injured emergency services initially warned people in the area not to leave their homes. those measures houses been left. well today marks

the 30th anniversary of a key event that followed the fall of the berlin wall angry citizens and human rights campaigners occupy the headquarters of the stasi communist east germany's feared secret police they succeeded in preventing the destruction of the studies stasis surveillance files on millions of the country's citizens one activist from that time told us what happened he was there both gang templi mean a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germany's stars the headquarters it's still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on. so if this is all yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament of our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster. was opened the gate the storming of no man in street was

a key moment after stasi buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the proceeding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters. was the stasi workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. but the fight to save the files was far from one that took a hunger strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public templin applied to see his own.

it was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1930 . 9 u.s. in opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thorough but there was also one from the 1st half of the 970 s. that was classified as a pup a try to follow. for 2 years template himself was an unofficial stasi informant he alternately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany. after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stasi but he's still struggling to cope with what happened to this day if you look. a lot of people say yeah well it was so long ago why both. if we think about the nazi era and i'm not saying that the same just comparing that to it took decades to process the

monstrous things that happened back then. you have a role. the stasi files will be transferred to the national archives from 2021 as long as they remain easily accessible to ordinary people templin has no problem with that many people still processing what happened that our parliamentary studios we have did have is maximally on akashic for us this morning good morning to you maximiliano on the stories very much about the stasi it was one of the world's biggest secret police forces at the time its presence was pervasive how did it shape east german society. you just need to look at the numbers of this apparatus to understand what the big impact it had on is german society so there were estimated 90000 people working for the stasi agency another had twice the number 170000 informal agents working for the stage and c and in the

end they're counting now 250000 people being imprisoned not counting those who have been intimidated or otherwise. been at the sort of grasp of this group and that of course created a climate of fear in for my eastern germany one that determined the life of people there from knowing or not knowing who to say was what to say to whom and how to act around certain people in their lives ok this massive apparatus kept files on millions of citizens in these germany creating this climate of fear you describe for us is that why the stasi files we saw in our report considered such a sensitive and for so many people a very emotional issue even today. you know so if you look at current political debates regarding like the reunification of eastern and western form of germany into the modern germany and into what form is to parts of germany and what the people there now currently looking at the course have other concerns mostly but for

those who have been victims of the stasi you know how these traumatic experience of course this is still a very important events and you know some of those people are still living close on their daughter to address some of those informants that have been working on them and we see it also in the way we still discuss eastern germany in folksong pull a couple of months ago we had to take over one of the biggest burn and use paper by a former eastern german couple the phrygian. couple who bought this newspaper and the one of the 2 managers he was being then outed for having worked with the stasi and this caused a big debate so the pasta is still a very present in germany and regarding 2 stars ok these files being made available to so many people who need to see the miss the way germany handled the files seen as a way forward a possible way for for other countries facing peace and reconciliation efforts after their own experiences with dictatorship. the way the stasi files off in

handling germany is have certainly been very unique and has been very unique pro says and of course other countries who have been facing similar challenges have been looking at that but of course every country has to look at the way what these challenges made for the us also for injure for germany for example what we've seen is that would work really well was that a lot of different parts of the gym society have been included in trying to make the processing of these files work there have been dedicated parts of the german government and german official institutions working on that issue but of course that work is not done yet and that's why there's a lot of criticism for the decision that these files should now move into the national archives and that this dedicated work will be cut short even though there's still a lot to done and a lot of people still asking questions which they weren't able to face in the last 30 years max we are thanks very much for looking into this forest. let's get your martyr now of our top story a new report by human rights watch says china poses an existential threat to

international human rights is going on the international community to challenge beijing's actions or face what it's calling quote a dystopian future. this is deja vu news live from berlin up next we have eco india our vironment magazine from india i'm brian thomas for the entire news feed thanks going.

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