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this is deja vu news live from berlin beijing talks its boldest action is to tighten its grip on hong kong china's ruling communist party signals it will impose a sweeping goal to criminalize so-called foreign interference in the territory critics say the legislation will further erode hong kong speech. also coming up brief and destruction in the wake of psycho and. parts of india and badly dish have been left devastated by the storm dozens of people are dead and the pad demi is complicating efforts to assess the damage and growing pretty. and europe's 2nd
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biggest airline with tons of ses it's close to sealing a virus related bailout deal with the german government. hello i'm christine want to welcome to the program the chinese government has announced that lawmakers will consider legislation that could limit opposition activity in hong kong the move comes in response to hong kong's pro-democracy demonstrations last year a spokesman say that the new goal will be discussed during the 7 days sation off the annual parliamentary meeting that officially begins tomorrow today president xi jinping and the members of his posse attended china's annual political meetings which opened off to a delay of 2 months to 2 the coronavirus. government spokesman wang yang stressed that the basic laws of hong kong will be supported sides of how.
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to ensure the policy of one country 2 systems is firmly up old over the long term we will strengthen the sense of mission and political responsibility of national committee members representing hong kong and macau and firmly support the improvement of systems and mechanisms for enforcing china's constitution and the basic laws of those 2 special administrative regions to the deputies phoebe kong has been following the story for us and joins us now from taiwan's capital taipei what more can you tell us about this new deal and they all will be put on the agenda of the national people's congress which is the chinese parliament or which starts its meeting on friday so according to the slopes we know and according to information from local media the new law may prohibit
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section of foreign interference of procession of the chinese central government and possibly terrorism so these are the so-called loopholes in beijing's eyes which they consider to be something that explodes 1 exposed during the months long and he's going to impose has happened last year in hong kong so beijing person saying that this is to safeguard the national security for china. so what does this mean for hong kong's pro-democracy movement and the greatest territory. this is indeed a political bombshell which is the most controversial legislation in hong kong history so it sends a shock waves of brown across to the city so. a sponsor we know that is not only about the law itself also the procedure is also highly controversial because what beijing is planning is that they are going to. and that the law by its own how
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immense in beijing and bypass the scranton e off hong kong local that just as that means. there is no veto power of the local law makers that they have no way to stop the natural stays here from putting in place had there been any reaction in hong kong. yeah we see it like on internet that some small scale protests have been called in hong kong that some people gather in the city tonight to to transit slogans and to express their anger and concern to us this controversial legislation and the lawmakers from the opposition came out and they condemn the proposed legislation's as turning home call into one country one system and they said this is going to be a huge french embassy to hong kong because this is simply in their eyes this is
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a repression on politico this is this and this is going to further you wrote hong kong free speech and hong kong so tommy all right that's t.v. call reporting for us in taipei thank you. india and bangladesh are assessing the damage left by one of the most violent storms in recent his sight left a trail of destruction in coastal communities and west been goals main city south millions of people they all without electricity and the coronavirus is hampering relief efforts. to get a last ditch effort these bangladeshis are preparing for the worst. feeling sandbags with their bare hands they braved conditions voted on by one of the most powerful cyclons in decades. meteorologists have dubbed it a super cyclamen and as it headed inland it lived up to that name it sent water
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surging inland some 25 kilometers the damage compounded by winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour. in comic conditions inside kid of bangladesh volunteers help to bring locals to safety more than 2 and a half 1000000 people who were evacuated to shelters like this one which brought new concerns amid the corona pandemic bill what the union put it there is a shortage of drinking water there are sanitation facilities for them that nurse or should distance is maintained for that reason the fear of the corona virus spread is persistent they're. already scrambled to evacuate residents in the cyclons projected path of destruction but that may leave them vulnerable to an increased risk of the fire us 50 kilometers west into co-pay attempts at social distancing futile. i think there are too many people here it's impossible to maintain social
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distancing i'm very concerned we couldn't stay home due to the storm and here is the tension of coronal i'm just trying to dodge both. and i'm precedented challenge for millions in paan couldn't have come at a worse time. take a look at some of the stories making news around the world angry announced it will close refugee reception santa is in so-called transit cern's on its southern border with serbia the $280.00 asylum seekers there are being moved to receptions into is within hungry the country is complying with an e.u. court ruling that deemed the transit zones illegal. in spain inutile on face mosques has taken effect it requires anyone over the age of 6 to wait for 6 to face mosque in indoor public spaces as well as outdoors when a distance of 2 meets his cannot be kept this comes as the spanish government cautiously eases coronavirus lockdown restrictions. severe flooding has hit the
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u.s. state of michigan after 2 dams failed following heavy rain officials warn a city or 40000 people could end up under almost 3 meters of water thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. the german airline has confirmed it's close to sealing a deal with the german government to secure a 9000000000 euro rescue package the airline and its subsidiaries have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic in april fewer than 3000 passengers a day traveled with who have tons of compared well they're prepared to make average off around 350000. the deal is the culmination of weeks of wrangling between chancellor angela merkel's c.d.u. conservatives and this in her left junior partners in the s.p.d. over the details of any live tons of bailout pro-business politicians in miracles conservative c.d.u.
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party had fought against increased state involvement in lieu of towns up but the social democratic party wanted a bigger stake that would allow berlin to influence lufthansa buses over potential job cuts or environmental targets. the lufthansa life raft is a 9000000000 euro package 3000000000 would be a loan from state investment bank k f w the german government would take a 20 percent stake in the company as well as a convertible bond worth 5 percent that would make it possible for the state to block a hostile takeover it would be the 1st time the government has held a stake in the form of flag carrier since 997 economy minister peter my ass said earlier in may that lufthansa was part of germany's family silver and that's 1000000000 wanted to avoid a fire sale of valuable firms some of the social democrats goals will be met with 2 state appointed seats on the left turns
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a supervisory board as well as conditions for future dividend payments and restrictions on manager bonuses look times a must hold an extraordinary shareholder meeting to decide on whether to accept the deal as competition watchdog the european commission must also give its blessing to the rescue before it can go ahead. the daddy is financial correspondent chelsea delaney is following the story from us for us from frank fish. it's taken weeks for the german government to work out the details of the bailout and it hasn't been confirmed yet but what we do know is this would be a 3 part package the 1st would be a 3000000000 euro loan from the german development bank but where the controversy really lies is in the other 2 parts so that the german government would buy about 20 percent of tonnes shares and in addition to that they would buy what's called a convertible bond and what that means is that it's debt that the government would be able to turn into stock if it wanted to if it would pull that lever they would
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have a 25 percent stake and. and that number is really important because it's the threshold of which the government would be able to overrule all other investors if they wanted to block any sort of corporate strategy change they would have the power to do that with this 25 percent stake the government has said that they don't plan to utilize these voting rights they plan to be a silent participant but they have said that they could use that that 25 percent stake if for example the company is facing some sort of hostile takeover situation and that's what if situation is really what's worrying look tons investors right now chelsea delaney in frankfurt they needed 2 and a half 1000000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week as part of the nation's wave of layoffs due to the pandemic the u.s. labor department saves of the 38 and a half 1000000 people have filed for jobless since the coronavirus forced millions of businesses to close. all scaled down operations another 2200000 people have sort
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8 under a new program for self employed contracting is and good work is you are now eligible for assistance for the 1st time. let's say happy birthday now to a rebel and a role model the character to be longstocking has been delighting children especially girls since she 1st appeared 75 years ago today here's a closer look at the unruly redhead who continues to inspire. a lot to prove is even a. deadly on every ms daughter longstocking for sure she lives with a monkey and a horse in the colorful house to live in the corner with no parents she does whatever she wants and is never to bad in this incredibly strong. the brainchild of the swedish writer astrid lindgren pippi was created as a gift for her daughter and her 10th birthday zick invited off as the 1st child in
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germany to read the stories of pepe her parents published the 1st german translation of p.p.c. adventures. they were so different to what i had read before she was a very special person strong brain and the girl so completely unusual to get to know the girl like this or to read about her. when astrid lindgren 1st so the manuscript to a publisher she wrote do not inform the youth welfare authorities soon every child of the sweden and germany knew pippi longstocking is the force of nature became more popular in germany than almost any other country. pippi is definitely the girl in children's literature he has a girl growing up without k.p. would be unthinkable because it gives children the courage to be strong and deal with any situation face anything that comes up without being afraid. of home.
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and kids just love her. she can go to bed anytime she wants. she has a horse in the middle of the city. and she can lift it up. that said she has 2 braids i want to do that too but it would be best if there were 2 titties these we had. in germany many bookstores are celebrating the peace 1st click you're in kurtzberg in berlin. difficult we sell a lot of pippy longstocking books but i think a lot more people read them buy them because some of their old books and they read them to their children that's what we did and certainly a lot of other families do that too. strong girl characters that are just as important today as they were 75 years ago. that's right it watching the news
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