story. starts in january 27th on d w. this is deja vu news live from berlin china is carrying out an intense global attack of 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 and accuses beijing of overseeing the most brutal and pervasive oppression in decades and of attacking human rights globally also coming up. democratic presidential candidates face off

in their final debate before the iowa caucuses foreign policy global trade health care among the top issues. and china and the u.s. prepared to sign phase one of a deal aimed at ending their trade war but with major issues still on resolved we ask what's next for the world's 2 biggest guns. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us china poses an existential threat to international human rights now that's the assessment of a new report released by human rights watch the u.s. based group condemning what it calls china's domestic repression and its attempts to censor its critics abroad group is calling on the international community. the

to challenge beijing's actions or face what it's ascribed as a quote dystopian future now 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 in new york instead 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's. biggest wroth there while hong kong is of course just one of the focal points of china's repression and activists there are saying beijing is using the territories police force to enforce a policy of ever greater brutality but support for the communist party line among police in hong kong is not universal some are risking their jobs or worse by

speaking out he. filed this report when david chen drawing 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. these was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on the 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 from prong nice criticizing and off and could sing at the poorly just and then you offices are on edge they've been accused of the indiscriminate rests beating upset if you would

protesters and threatening to shoot to you guys into apartment just if videos off alleged police brutality yes circulating online bystanders were get into arguments with offer says wrist getting pepper sprayed a clear violation missed the ruse asked david learn i'm just frustrated because some offices really just like the protesters and honestly they really want to bait them up but i think this isn't the right mentality we should be impartial is 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 front line as back op he often heis to be at this site of demonstrations david just hiding his identity for feel being bullied by protest as 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 scene you offices have basically messed it up i was officious denied the pulleys have done anything wrong the police has been in 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 that back on him on the pa 6 month 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 it he says several of his colleagues have quit their jobs but while he's at odds with the current tactics he has no intention to leave. 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 dealt. along with filing that report spelling a detailed some of china's other rights violations outlined by human rights watch 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 as 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 why 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. mathias billing is there in beijing let's get you break down some of the other stories making 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 chief josefa borel's saying the aim is to bring tehran back into compliance but it could spell the end of the accord and a return to sanctions. the house of representatives will vote later on a resolution to send articles of impeachment against u.s. president donald trump to the senate house speaker nancy pelosi is also signaled

she would name the lawmakers who would service house managers for a senate trial. while the race to decide which democrat will challenge donald trump for the u.s. presidency is heating up former vice president joe biden and senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren among the top 6 candidates taking part in a t.v. debate tuesday night it was the last debate before the democratic primary season kicks off in iowa in 3 weeks time and polls suggest that race will be tight and last chance for 6 remaining candidates to make their case before the democratic primaries begin and the candidates use their chance to attack president trump on his foreign policy decisions vermont senator bernie sanders issued a stark warning about the fallout of repealing the radian general's soleimani the 2 great foreign policy disasters of our lifetimes or the war in vietnam and the war

in iraq both of those wars were based on law. and right now what i fear very much is we have a president who is lying again and could drag us into a war that is even worse than the war in iraq moderate frontrunner joe biden criticized president trump of his decision to pull out american troops will syria vice president biden would you leave troops in the middle east or would you pull them out i think it's a mistake to pull out the straw the small number of troops that are there now to deal with isis tromp offered his own counter-programming at a rally in milwaukee in battleground state wisconsin he defended his decision to kill soleimani. saw a man he was responsible for murdering and wounded thousands of americans it was actively planning new attacks but we stopped them cold.

and frankly they already started the attack as you saw in baghdad on a very large embassy in baghdad that was already started in a moment to remember was a standoff between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren warren accused sandhurst to have said a woman could not be elected president of the united states i think the best way to talk about who can win is by looking at people's winning record so kind of woman beat donald trump look at the men on this stage collectively they have lost 10 elections the only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women amy thank you. but bernie sanders rejected the allegation. and i think i think yes you are saying that you never told senator warren that a woman could not win the election on

a script the star of the last debate before the primaries but a real winner did not emerge good news for joe biden who avoided a blunder this time. and that could consolidate his position as the front runner up the democratic party. well the united states and china are set to sign the 1st phase of a trade deal beijing is committed to buying more american farm energy in manufactured goods and both sides have held off on imposing any further tariffs now many other issues like intellectual property however remain unresolved. it is a gloomy winter day in shanghai and even the upcoming trade treaties between the world's top 2 economies can do little to brighten the. both sides. are itching certain point that would be acceptable not to victory i think at the this is the nature of the so called to face the one

deal between us and china experts say there are no winners the trade dispute has been expensive for both countries us tiris cause the chinese economy $35000000000.00 in the 1st half of 2019 according to you when estimates meanwhile the trumpet ministration has had to provide a total of $28000000000.00 to farmers to mitigate losses in the agricultural sector and the phase one trade deal doesn't remove all the terrorists so the dispute is still ongoing. i think it will be a fight she will fight to choose to fight a fight determined china and the united states and so both sides will continue to try to build a strategic advantage or. an outlook that suggest there could be more gloom on the horizon as attention turns to face to. all severe weather across parts of

pakistan and pakistan administered kashmir have left some 100 people dead many more missing one valley in the mountains was hit by several avalanches and authorities of launch rescue missions but getting into this area is proving very difficult. yes . in the mountains of pakistan administered kashmir rescuers are trekking looking and listening for signs of life as the snow continues to fall finding and reaching the exact location of the missing is hard enough. the next task is to dig down through what in some valleys he's made his of snow to reach people buried beneath the avalanche. of 101 girls given how they are going to. get a. lot of these areas are cut off from the cities and as on cashmere in the evening you just don't know what condition people are in. how long like that got

a. meanwhile in western pakistan heavy snow fall in blood just on has destroyed and in some cases completely buried dozens of houses. again accessibility is thwarting efforts to find survivors and victims. because so far most of the casualties are due to the construction of houses in a different part of the province. while if it's being made to reopen roads and reach many people at ground level in many cases a lift is still be only option full the injured. as the hours tick by the chances of race you work is finding survive as is diminishing rapidly. we have some sports news for you know the ticket designs for this year's olympic and paralympic games have been unveiled in tokyo now the japanese paralympic canoeist

monica assyria you had the honor of showing off the designs the tickets come in 4 different colors the future pictograms of each individual. the designs inspired by the commo know the traditional japanese. games organizers say nearly 4 and a half 1000000 tickets have been sold so far. this is the interview news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks for being. it's all happening much of it coming. your link to news from africa and the world nor link to exceptional stories and discussions can you and will come to see their views after getting program back from funny gently from one uses easy towel i would say definitely comes last.