what's your story take part sheriff on info migrants' dot. org. this is news live from but live china is carrying out some intense global attack on human rights. from human rights watch the organization released it said. after being denied entry to tang kong it also accuses beijing of of seeing the most brutal i'm supposed to face if oppression in decades and of attacking human rights around the world also on the program democratic presidential candidates in the

united states face off in the final debate before the iowa caucuses for foreign policy global trade and health kept one amongst the toughest. policy right old world seem to be joint people fleeing the top called kailash the philippines fearful that when they are allowed to return the hopes will be devastating. storm english east germany secret police with fear and take it today marks 30 years to. force their way into shock i'd want to explain and provide to the destruction of the millions of files to come in the state. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. china poses an existential threat to international human rights that's assessment is contained in the latest

a new report from human rights watch the u.s. based group condemns what it calls china's domestic repression and its attempts to censor critics abroad they urge the international community to challenge beijing's actions or face what they describe as a dystopian future had a few writers to watch was due to release a report in hong kong but was denied entry so can a throw off held his press conference in new york instead the chinese government is trying with increasing ferocity to use its economic and diplomatic clout to silence critical voices abroad and to 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 straight to the chinese capital then abbott is a bully who joins us from beijing welcome mathias beijing's human rights record has

been criticised for some time i have events in hong kong and with the wingers have they worsened it further. yeah you can say it's all though we are talking about 2 very different situations in hong kong we are talking about the erosion of civil liberties in from a previously high level and allegations of police brutality against demonstrators that have been worrying many people but it is nothing compared to what we are seeing in scenes young where we are syrian really seeing dystopian situation the internment of possibly millions of people in reeducation camps and. a surveillance state and racial discrimination that is unprecedented since world war 2 so of course these. revelations about what has been happening in

xinjiang since 2017 that is when the 1st reports about of about this mass repression campaign this very. unprecedented. repression against a whole group ethnic group came out this has is of course a new dimension to china's human rights record and so when this report from human rights watch talks about china's threats to critics abroad though they talking about. members of the weaker community have reported several times that they have been threatened by. agents brought that their family members in china have been have disappeared and that their lives have been used to put pressure on them their fate has been used to put pressure on them we also see pressure on

countries to to expel or to send weak is back to china we have seen some cases in. kazakhstan for people who are also. victims of this oppression and we have also heard cases from egypt and from turkey over all china has been pressuring countries that are economically dependent to voice support for this campaign against the we go as we have seen a number of countries signing an open letter that supports these policies and we have also seen pressure by china on the united nations organizations those who deal with human rights violations. in beijing thank you

all hong kong is just one of the focal points of china's repression activists there accused beijing of using the territories police to enforce a policy of ever greater brutality but support for the communist party line amongst hong kong police is not universal a some officers risking their jobs or indeed worse by speaking out here's more from mathias but. when david turned joined the 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. base was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on the university campus hong kong police had to calm my 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 criticising and often could sing at the police many offices which they've been accused of indiscriminate arrests beating up subdued protesters and threatening to shoot guys into apartments. videos of police brutality circulating online. bystanders who get into arguments with officers risk getting pepper sprayed a clear violation of the rules that's david you know. 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

heis to be at the side 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 . denied 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 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. russia's president vladimir putin has used his annual address to parliament to propose a series of constitutional changes he said he would tighten the criteria for anyone seeking to become president excluding citizens amongst others i went on to say that he wanted to give parliament the right to choose the country's prime minister and he said he wanted to put the changes to the russian people which. considering that the proposed innovations relate to significant changes in the political system the activities of the executive legislative and judicial branches i consider it

necessary to conduct a vote by the country's citizens on an entire package of proposed amendments to the country's constitution. straight to moscow that will be joined to. show. what else did we hear from president person. well prison proposed a huge range of constitutional changes which would give the main point was that they would give more power to essentially elected institutions to the upper and lower houses of parliament for example before the president proposed to the prime minister and the cabinet to the duma the lower house of parliament and then the duma accepted that usually and now it's going to be the other way around so the duma will propose the prime minister and the cabinet of ministers and when it comes to the upper house of parliament they will suggest changes to the president on the judiciary and on the judiciary if it's seen ness as necessary and on the security services he also proposes giving more power to the state council which is made up

of regional governors putin emphasized that russia won't be changing to a parliamentary republic it will still be a presidential system but it does seem that the parliament both houses of the parliament will get more power under these proposed changes so with. this referendum i think there were other things in there that seem to suggest that mr putin was extending russia's democracy. well essentially yes i mean he's proposing giving more power to elected institutions he's also proposing kind of decentralising the system by giving more power to those regional governors as i just mentioned he also talked all throughout the this address about the importance of giving people the power back to the people essentially and for

people to have a sense of justice and also a sense that there are there is a desire for change among people he emphasized that all throughout he didn't actually mention the word referendum but he did propose a vote so we'll have to see what shape that vote will take so he's presidential term i think in 4 years do people expect him to just take his pension and then disappear to go watch daytime television. will host sensually we don't know as you rightly mentioned his term ends in 2024 in the sense of essential since his this last term. this last presidential term of his began in 2018 people have been discussing what's going to happen next because according to the constitution he can't be president again he's been president for 2 terms in a row now and so he would have to take on some other role but we don't know what that role within the system will be he could take on the role of pm he could take

on some kind of role within the parliament or even within the state council but it's clear that he even though he's not making any decisions about his own future or hasn't mentioned them at least he's certainly paving the way for that transition in 2024. so you. let's take a brief look now at some of the other stories making news around the world britain france and germany have formally accused iran of violating the terms of the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear program eve foreign policy chief joseph around said the aim is to bring back into compliance but it could spell the end of the accord and the return to sanctions. lebanese capital beirut has been cleaning up after a night of protests in which almost 70 people were injured demonstrators caused the heavy damage to banks which many brides are driving the country towards its worst economic crisis for decades protesters are staging what they call

a week of anger to demand an end to a months long political vacuum. the u.s. house of representatives will love vote later on a resolution to send articles of impeachment against president trump to the senate house speaker nancy pelosi has also signaled that she will name the lawmakers who serve as house managers for a senate trial. and the race to decide which democrat will challenge donald trump for the u.s. presidency this year is heating up for vice president joe biden and senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren were amongst the top 6 candidates who took part in a t.v. debate on tuesday night it was the last debate before the democratic primary season begins in iowa in 3 weeks and polls suggest the race is tight. the last chance for 6 remaining candidates to make their case before the democratic primaries begin and the candidates used their chance to attack president trump on

his foreign policy decisions 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 trump offered his own counter-programming at a rally in milwaukee in battleground state wisconsin he defended his decision to kill soleimani. solomin he was responsible for murdering and wounded thousands of americans it was actively planning new attacks but we stopped them cold was. and frankly they already started the attack as you saw in baghdad on our very large embassy in baghdad that was already started you know a moment to remember was a standoff between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren warren accused sanders to have said a woman could not be elected president of the united states look at the man 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 but bernie sanders rejected the allegation the 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 of the democratic party. after 18 months of damaging economic a conflict the united states and china due to sign what they're calling phase one of a trade agreement that would see the u.s. ease some sanctions against china the u.s. has agreed to stop labeling beijing as a currency manipulator head of the signing in washington it's bought beijing will increase its such a system that u.s. farm products manufactured goods like. aircraft and services economists are calling the deal modest but there are hopes it will provide it will prevent further escalation in the conflict that has slowed global economic growth hurt u.s.

exports as a weight on the chinese economy. this is d.w. news life from but it still to come. the fight to save the stars he files we talked to one of the activists who stole the headquarters of communist east germany so he had secret police 30 years ago today. first that we had to the philippines right tens of thousands of people are still fleeing the erupting volcano as you can see here many of the villages in the surrounding regions are still covered in layers of volcanic ash the authorities are warning that a massive eruption could happen at any time the volcano is about 70 kilometers south of the capital manila in the middle of a lake it started to expel ash on sunday rescue teams have been working around the clock to get people to safety the w.'s at a san tossed joint one of the missions. clouds of

ash covered this road in baton goes region but still the rescuers press on. determined to drive those trapped in this bold can make a danger zone to safety. we're doing rescue operations to evacuate people to higher ground we've rescued a couple of people already this morning we're moving to another town to rescue more . detail though kaino has been billowing smoke into ash since it's a russian on sunday it lies in the middle of a lake just over 60 kilometers south of the philippine capital manila. although these filipinos don't live in the fall can occur and they are still in danger of ash fall and the likelihood of more russians are making evacuations here

mandatory. others like claire and her sisters are choosing to get out they can log on and be paid that money we decided to evacuate today because we had that things may get worse with the whole cane or the safest thing to do is to leave me some areas are too difficult to reach by truck so these rescuers use motorbikes to collect the locals it doesn't matter how they find them they simply know they have to get people out of this region as quickly as possible. and here are some of the day's top stories people in the australian city of melbourne breathing slightly more easily after heavy rains and storms swept over parts of the state of victoria bunch of the region had been shrouded in haze for weeks of wildfires. dozens of people in the united states are being treated for minor skin and lung problems after

a pass. and your plane dumped fuel over several schools yahoo was making an emergency but turned to los angeles airport after experiencing mechanical issues the federal aviation authority is investigating. 30 years ago today people in communist east germany stopped the headquarters of the of the country's spy agency the stasi just weeks after the fall of the berlin wall they feared officials would try to destroy the millions of files they kept on each german's job and present from delta starting to have visited the form of stars they had far simpler lent to mark the anniversary he praised public access to the stasi files as a deeply democratic act you know it's allowed an inside look into a dictatorship presidents time i also vowed to do his part to keep the stasi archives open to the public. w. politics reporter maximally on akashic has been looking into this welcome maximillian. the stars it was one of the biggest secret police forces in the world

give us an idea of how they shaped each german society just look at the idea if how big this apparatus was to understand how much of an impact it had for the east and jim society so 90000 officials have been working as part of the stasi another 170000 informal whack has who've been like spying on the neighbor that even their families have been possibly the stasi group and then of course 250000 people have been imprisoned by the wives of the stasi not mentioning those who has been intimidated or otherwise being restricted through the walk office doesn't ok stay with us because that is a say 30 years ago activists prevented this struction of those surveillance files and one of them one of the people who took part has been telling us what happened. he was there votes going temp lean a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other

demonstrators pushed their way into east germany stars he had corridors it's still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on itself is oh yes i said so now what we want this peaceful disarmament of our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no placebo was open the gate the storming of no man in street was a key moment after the buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the preceding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters was the staff the workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. from its border come from there are no no there is no longer news 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 he's germany's state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public full temp lien 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 1900 . 90 u.s. and opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file awaited me it was very thorough but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to follow. for 2 years templin himself was an unofficial status the informant

he ultimately 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. a lot of people say yeah well it was so long ago why bother. 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. 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. so much really on a concert 30 years on those files are still a sensitive or an emotional issue yes because as we heard and as for it's like

something that has impacted the life the work of the stars is impacted life so many people in the former east germany and of course they like it affected how you thought about things what you were able to say who you said things to like were you able to trust your neighbors your friends in regards to this or where they informants and of course it also affects careers of people so for example still today if you are wanting to become an official for the german government you can be investigated if you have been involved in the stasi even 30 years later and the same people who have been in for a walk in with the stasi can still be discovered today and that of course reflects on how these people seem even if they were coerced to work with the stasi and so the way that germany has handled these files opening them up to the public is in any way seen as a template for other countries who are trying to come to terms with their own experiences of a police state i think it's very unique so far in the sense that of course germany was at the forefront of dealing with this issue and like taking also in

a lot of different parts of the german society dedicating institutions that occasion research to educating parts of the government to this issue up to the parliament and of course other countries have been looking to this person trying to gain from the experience but i think as we see this is always something that is very individual for each country and that is lessons learned but there's also a critic that for some of them still needs to address there's a lot of criticism for the fact that these are now becoming part of the national archives and as we've had there is worry that these files therefore will not be to public as much anymore and that there won't be treated with the same care and sensitivity and sums of recession in terms of protection of these funds that's really kasich thank you. a drone camera has captured the dramatic rescue of a base jumper in thailand after his parachute got caught on the cliff rescuers say the austrian national spent about 5 hours dangling from jagged rocks before they managed to reach him the mountains in thailand's southern province of battle no

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