there's a camp. on net trains kimi a lot of people whom you. may see the pink. elephant all story. must. stunts january 27th. this is a show coming up citizens vs citizens police force stands accused of brutality pro-democracy protesters police officers themselves feel about their role in these protests we are just one of them just. buried under the philippines us. is not just having an impact on people but also the food to survive.

well. it's good to have you with us at every protest that hong kong has seen in more than 6 months it's the police force that's always been at the center of them they've been criticised ridiculed attacked and accused of brutality and yet they must come out protest off to protest onto the streets to police the actions of their fellow citizens what does that do to these men and women we want to know and correspondent. try to bring us some on says. when david chan joined the hong kong police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david tanis not his real name. bass was last november when protesters and police clashed for

hours on a university campus. police had come to town. and david says it's not only the physical threats that affect morale. so you'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 he's 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 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 front line as often haas 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 . officials deny the police 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 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 dollars. because one of the tears berlingo filed that report on his back in beijing where he joined us from but here's one of the things the officer said in your report was we should be impartial we shouldn't take sides and the longer these protests carry on are

people being forced to pick sides i mean can you even remain neutral in hong kong today. what this office says talking about peters is of course to what extent should offices be allowed to let their feelings interfere with how they carry out their duty and what he is saying and what many critics of the police are saying is that the police leadership has not done a very good job in containing this problem but what we see is that the situation in hong kong is highly emotional people are in some kind of emotional state of emergency throughout the whole city it has been interfering with friendships people have bonded over similar views or they have been estranged from each other over differing views as the officer has had also in this report and what we also see in

surveys that have been carried out related to the questions of the protests is that very very few people. i don't know or i don't have an opinion in these surveys the population is really divided and it's highly emotional you say it's emotional material but you asked one person who's been reporting on these protests for months now and you've spoken to all sides police officers their families protesters the government is there a sense for 2 years that something's changed irrevocably in hong kong society and no matter how things turn out they will not be the same again. this is probably one of the few points both camps could relate to the pro-democracy protesters from a very early stage have said many times to me that they felt that this was kind of an end game that they felt that this might be the last time they can come out

onto the streets to fight for their position and one teenager recently told me that he had the feeling that he might be the last generation of hong kong is as he put it the last generation who grew up with these freedoms and this distinct identity on the other hand the supporters of the government and the pro establishment camp they have the feeling that something is lost in these months off clashes and violence and that this rule abiding and business friendly lifestyle of hong kong has come to an end and is building and beijing thank you very much for that human rights watch has meanwhile issued a scathing review of the chinese government in its latest world report it condemns beijing st bernard of week of muslims and the so-called political education camps in junk province the report also criticizes china for ongoing media censorship and

the most surveillance of its own people calling it the most intrusive public want to bring system in the world has ever known. its programming about and. so if you're richardson is the time to director of human rights watch she joins us now from new york musician thank you so much for making the time now the report says that the actions of beijing's actions need to be challenged otherwise we're looking at a quote weakened international human rights system and should governments be taking a lead in this action or is that hoping for too much. no that's absolutely what needs to happen and it's not just individual governments but indeed blocks or institutions for example the un human rights council the european union as a bloc the like minded governments that tend to come together already iran's human rights issues could take stronger and more frequent collective positions even an entity like the organization of islamic cooperation could come together to push

back against china's abuses of weaker is another target muslims they're part of the point we're trying to make is that in doing so they have a lot more leverage against an increasingly powerful chinese government but then soulful what is the example the governments have presented to china i mean you have the united states addressing the un joint its own so you have a genocide against me and muffler its treatment. lot of good but nothing really against china so what really is the example that john locke and look o.b.l. fatals well there i think the case is actually a good point of comparison because really the push for an investigation and accountability into appalling human rights violations against that community has come really jointly from the european union and the oh i see together saying you know these are serious violations and they have to be investigated through the auspices. of rights council and of course the difference is that the myanmar

government isn't nearly as powerful as the chinese government and so it takes political courage for governments to do that but it's no less than. 0 some of the political coverage will be full coming so that it's and from human rights watch under so much for joining us thank you. authorities in the philippines have only evacuees not to return to their homes in the shadow of the 2nd most active volcano in the country they're often told volcano has already forced tens of thousands to evacuate and that ash released into the air has ultimately fallen on the surrounding areas and it's taking a heavy toll on local farmland. in the region of the philippines the volcano has turned the landscape monochrome whole villages that blanketed in thick layers the volcanic ash and formally last plantations have been left unrecognizable

. jack imperial has found pineapple for 17 years he says he's never seen such devastation. and. the pineapples were all covered by thick mud we can't use them anymore. imperial has a small stall at a local market and makes a living by selling pineapples to tourists not. almost all of his crops ruined. even if we were able to harvest some pineapples for sale. if customers are scared to come because of the eruption the pineapples will just end up rotting. on. an estimated 3000 hectares of land has been affected by ash fall and. and the agricultural damage has already exceeded 10000000 euros experts say that in

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burn and other extreme weather hits the world economic forum releases its global risks report. business the world's top 2 economies a finally signing the 1st phase in a trade troops a sigh of relief for businesses around the world that have been hit with tariffs or have passed on the extra cost to us the customer as part of the deal sees china buying more from the united states including energy and agricultural products both sides have held off on imposing for the judy's many other issues remain unresolved china's leo who is in washington to sign a cease fire in a trade war that has slowed global growth i.m.f. managing director christine george reminded the trades are this was only a truce not a permanent peace deal leaves in place tire of some 360000000000 dollars worth of chinese goods it doesn't address technology transfers china's huge subsidies for state owned firms and cyber attacks.