this is the news live from berlin a passenger plane crashes in pakistan. the southern port city of karachi close to a residential area witnesses say a 320 trying to land several times before pilots seem to lose control also coming up fears for the future of hong kong as china passed imposing new security laws on the city beijing wants to use the law to rein in the democracy movement activists call for mass demonstrations and urge the international community to step in.

plus no easy way out stick around a virus crisis is making life even harder for the millions of people have fled venezuela and the countries hosting them is the u.n. doing enough to help with getting some answers from the u.n. high commissioner for refugees. welcome to the program a passenger jets with about 100 people on board has crashed in pakistan's southern city of karachi authorities said the plane approached by state drunk son international airlines was on route from lahore. 320 came down in a residential area just moments before it was due to land. a spring in the sheen abbas is a journalist based in islamabad apparently the plane crashed into a residential area area what more can you tell us about that place. well we're

thinking told that this is where the denture areas look it is very near the airport and it is highly congested heavily populated and witnesses said that they saw the. first hit immobile tower support ashed into a roll out the i'm so that is what witness is authentic. was there any word on some of the survivors but. there are rumors there are a lot of different things that are being said what's that on twitter there are a lot of people sharing information about the passenger is speculation some people are saying that some of the passengers are in ice you have survived but nothing has been confirmed as yet. what do we know about the safety record of their line of state run pakistan the international says the country's flag carrier. as a whole box one has a checkered ignition safety record including

a number of number of airliner crashes in 2010 you had a private airline carrier which crashed near some utterly 100000 people and in 2012 there was another airline in other parts of the airline called port which crashed there like crashed there crashed in the beneath the $121.00 passengers in 2016 again the same caroline that was to the box on international airlines present in fact there are more than. 27 people and not 2020 so there are a lot of questions that people are bringing up if you can consumption that you can be questioning the i.a.e.a. specifically but it's not international airlines discussing how all these aircrafts out whether they be properly or not it is being said that this particular thing that crashed today the chief engineer had good had given a green light on this aircraft and said it was fully everybody so these questions are being brought up. but these questions have been have been discussed and have

been put forth by the public for a long time now it has but now actually would today's incident i think it has reignited this debate machine abbas thank you very much. critics are calling it a historic turning point for hong kong china is preparing to impose a new law on the city bombing quote subversion and separatism critics say it's a push by beijing to end pro-democracy protests will effectively bring the territory under direct role but beijing says its aim is to counter threats of national security. beijing's new security law is being met with fierce resistance in hong kong residents and lawmakers in the semi autonomous region are fighting to keep their special freedoms scuffles broke out inside the legislative council pro-democracy lawmakers were forcibly removed. a

probation legislator was escorted out amidst the uproar. and pro-democracy lawmakers accuse beijing of trying to force the bill through without their consent is accompli destruction. all for one country 2 systems and and also is a compliment. this on all of our promises made on the sign or british joint declaration as well as all the promises that have been made by the chinese government to all of the world it comes as some 3000 delegates from across the country gather for china's political event of the year the national congress in beijing the law is the most controversial item on the agenda beijing has vowed to uphold hong kong special status but says the law is needed in the wake of protests and foreign interference.

these activities have seriously challenge the fundamental principles of one country 2 systems and have seriously undermined the rule of law threaten the sovereignty security and development interests of the country strong measures have to be taken according to the law to prevent stop and punish them. found kong has been semi autonomous since britain returned the territory to china in 1997. special privileges including the right to assembly and free speech were promised under the one country 2 systems agreement. but beijing has long wanted more control over hong kong a similar law was scrapped in 2003 after fierce opposition as well as an extradition bill that sparked last year's pro-democracy protests and plunge hong

kong into crisis. activists fear the bill could spell the end of autonomy in hong kong long before the agreement is due to expire. well suppose i were to beijing now f.i.b. and following the story for the most important points of this new role. i would say there are 3 main points and 1st. cracking down secession the stick to the ts and also supports effectively basically everything that could promote independence i mean hong kong independence from mainland china secondly i mean to enforce the law possibly china could install their own security force on the ground which would be. something that has never been that you've never seen before and certainly china could use a loophole of the hong kong constitution to. implement the law without that

he needs to approval of the legislation of the phone call so we know that actually . such a national security law doesn't enjoy any support from them. from the population or just a small. support because the last time try to actually implement such a law there were so many protests back in 2003 that they actually had to abandon the promise and the sort of plans for what is beijing in the long run trying to achieve. i mean they are trying to solve the conflict on their own terms and we see i think it's interesting that beijing as well as the pro-democracy movement there are the one country 2 systems. and that beijing basically trying to restart the order in beijing and they see it as a threat that you know the. pro-democracy movement which still enjoys a lot of support and hong kong are promoting independence and also that they are

infiltrated by foreign forces and basically financed by i'd say think tanks from the u.s. so basically beijing is sending a message of power that control the situation and once to stop any interference the hong kong governor which is probate jane has said it will fully cooperate with a new law and pro-democracy activists are mobilizing in response. we spoke to an activist joshua wong who described the new law as a nightmare and called for help from the international community let's have a listen to what he had to say that we come back to you. that's the nightmare day we must need to face and we must stand up and knock against it and beijing imposed the national security in law i think that's it's not about the secretary of the nation it's just about the secretary of communist party of china recall all ice around the world to some hong kong people against the national security law that erodes on fundamental and basic freedoms freedom so we read it wish no matter you

asked or european countries could impose the hong kong human rights and democracy act all global when it's good and has the sanction mechanism and let beijing to realize that china is not the only way out or a strong and critical was done from just one and the plea for international help other any indications fabienne that someone might call for help. yeah i mean 1st of all i have to say that it's not only do you also want to say i mean before the scene scuffles in the legislative council in hong kong and yet of course they are not so many. pro-democracy movement yes i mean basically they can count on the help and to support from the u.s. government and they reacted the strongest basic trump said i'm quoting here now. and washington could react very strongly to to the new law and possibly also some

european countries could voice to support namely the german government but yes we have to see that the relationship between the u.s. and china is at an all time low and it's never been as bad at least since 1009 when beijing yeah crack down on the student movement here in beijing that to tiananmen square. i mean aside from hong kong beijing also seems to be hardening its language with taiwan which it regards as a breakaway province. prime minister today gave a speech and he basically encouraged all the citizens in taiwan to promote reunification with the motherland with china and usually they would always at the charm peaceful reunification and this time he left out the word peacefully actually that's a symbolic sign and yes. religious elected or reelected

a new president that's very very critical towards beijing and even the opposition that's more friendly to what's beijing's human base also distancing itself much more to beijing there are not many people left who would actually favor unification with china it's only a very very small minority. in beijing reporting thank you. both the national people's congress comes as china has abandoned its annual economic growth targets for the 1st time in 30 years it's science it's the coronavirus and global uncertainty in the in his annual work with ought to the congress premier league said china set a target of creating $9000000.00 new urban jobs you also promised to increase spending and financing to support the economy which contracted by some 7 percent in the 1st quarter of this year alone. now much of a cliff a coon from the w. business or resident china. you've covered the national people's congress of 14

years in a row what this has never happened before why has china ditched its annual growth focus for the 1st time in decades i think is very significant i mean no one's ever seen anything like this pandemic before even though china's coming out of the pandemic it's still reliant so much of what happens in the rest of the world so clearly with so many different moving parts there's decision made not to have to deal with the issue of g.d.p. forecast there was a particular focus on unemployment in there by some estimate i was reading today 80000000 people are without work in china which is nearly the same populations germany and so they've got a lot of problems to deal with so i think at the moment they're holding fire on the g.d.p. forecast how is europe coping with china's slowdown and of course of the slowdown in china has an effect around the world but in particular europe it's a big factor for europe european protect the same germany we have the carmakers are very big in china obviously what happens there has

a huge impact at the same time politically things have been difficult we've seen china's been trying to intervene with when with that when europe was making statements about the pandemic and so there's a lot of political tensions there and the can i. but pressure is a kind of following in the wake so i think we're going to see over the course of this year there will be musings high level meetings between the e.u. and china but finding an investment plan and i think gradually those will take shape terms there is going to take place but the background you always have the u.s. and china trade spot which hasn't gone away if anything that's gotten worse because the political situation there is so much worse so there again as with everything in we've seen on the economic side with the pandemic there are just way too many balls in the air let's look back into china itself what will vision do to get the workers that back on the assembly line welders talking about introducing some kind of fiscal stimulus making it easier for them to borrow money and we've seen looking at

cold cold push and cold usage we've seen that it's already up to around where it was last year so people are back at work but it's still a big problem in the in the services sector and those sort of areas so i think what we're going to see is there will be stimulus but they're going to try and spread around the economy and make it as broad a thing as possible so that gradually china can come back to to you know to work political and funded of your business thank you time now for a look at some of today's coronavirus developments india has reported its biggest single day rise in cases with 6000 new infections indonesia is also seen as high as on the rise with $973.00 new infections the surge comes ahead of this weekend's celebrations marking the end of ramadan saudi arabia and the united arab emirates will be keeping most stroh's for the prayers during the edo fitter festival to

avoid the spread of the disease and francis to reschedule the 2nd round of you know a simple elections that were called off during its nationwide lockdown the vote will be held on june 28th amid safeguards to mitigate contagion wrists. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world u.s. president of trump says he may reconsider his intention to withdraw all the u.s. from the open skies treaty with russia if it leaves the pact it would be the 3rd arms control agreements he has dropped since taking office move 20 year old treaty was designed to improve military transparency. united nations says the health system in war torn yemen has effectively collapsed as the coronavirus breads hospitals are turning patients away amid an acute lack of medical supplies and protective of what the u.n. needs some 2000000000 dollars to fund aid programs this year.

russian media reports say the leader of chechnya has been hospitalized in moscow with suspected covert 19 year olds is a key ally of president vladimir putin it's the latest case of a senior official in the russian russian federation infected with corona virus. the pandemic maybe taking all our attention at the moment but that doesn't mean all the other crises in the world have been resolved this situation in venezuela is a case in point 5000000 people a fled the country their plight is being was by the coronavirus crisis. it's a job no one else wants to do grueling dangerous work recovering bodies of covered 9000 victims. used to work as an electrician in his native venezuela before he migrated to peru 2 years ago to escape the dire economic crisis back home in his

new job he and his fellow workers from the p. durango funeral home collect as many as 10 bodies a day more than 400 since march. here they are picking up the body of a man who committed suicide because he couldn't get treatment after testing positive for the virus john always worries the dangerous work he has to do might end up harming his family before returning home he always showers and washes his clothes with disinfectant sometimes he gargles with salt water. i'm always afraid afraid to affect my family when i go back home to my children but it's something that has to be faced and i have to continue working to put food on the table. peru has over 108000 confirmed covered 9000 cases and over 3000 deaths the 2nd hardest hit country in latin america after brazil the current lockdown conditions are making it even harder for the estimated 850000 venezuelan migrants in peru to make

ends meet the e.u. and spain are about to hold a donor's conference in solidarity with venezuelan refugees and migrants in countries in the region amid the pandemic. but for now has to keep working and hoping he'll stay healthy for his family including his elderly parents who remained in venezuela joining me now from geneva is the united nations high commissioner for refugees philippa grundy mr going to overall how much has the situation of venezuelan refugees worsened in countries like peru chile or colombia during this and it has worsened in 2 ways 1st and we heard your very telling story of. mr alon it has worsened because of the exposure to the virus that this is for everybody in this way learns and nationals of the many countries that are hosting. the problem is that for many dennis wayland's inclusion in the

health of responses is difficult they have less taxes they're not theirs in spite of the incredible generosity of course countries and the other dimension is of course economic 80 percent of the 5000000 dennis will unseen the region leave of daily wages very fragile incomes that are the 1st ones to disappearing like that we see even in richer countries in europe in north america these are the 1st people that lose their livelihoods and this happens a lot to the next when and so we had an economic convergence the alongside that if you talk about an economic emergency there the e.u. and spain now want to collect money for venezuelan refugees at a donor conference in a few days do you think is the international community in india and that includes the un doing enough that. well let me tell you 1st of all it is great that the e.u.'s being. have taken this initiative of course the u.n.

knees very much involved in this conference as well in particular unit shark and i you and the international organization of migrations will be what we've been working together with donors to explain 2 things one we have urgent humanitarian needs to be satisfied about one and a half $1000000000.00 for this year so far we've got very little of that money maybe less than 5 percent we launched the appeal already several months ago but then we also need to mobilize resources to shore up health systems and source of safety nets in these countries and this is really more the responsibility of the world than coffee inter-american development bank big bilateral aid entities and so it's a 2 track donor conference that will take place on tuesday defer stayed back we were getting from donors is good ok on both tracks let's hope that at least

a substantial part of these needs can be met it will be a crucial signal for countries and communities hosting venezuelans and of in this way and so themselves it's around the. point your let's let's have a look at another crisis right now facing refugees here in europe a new findings that we presented here on g.w. yesterday suggest that greek authorities have been beating migrants and illegally deporting them back to turkey because of the alleged physical assaults emerged earlier this year and thousands of migrants gathered in border areas off the turkish authorities encourage them to travel to europe many of whose the greek police are arresting them without warrants and forcing them onto boats bound for turkey who's running what is the the u.n.h. the us reaction to these accusations against greek authorities. we've been in constant dialogue with the greek authorities book both back then you remember that cause in the context of a lot of people from turkey piling up at the greek border yes and there was

a strong reaction on the part of greece to aspects which we thought where excessive and we raised this issue with the greek authorities that pressure have subsided for now we have received reports recently of some pushbacks of boats or people arriving across the aegean sea there's been very very few arrivals during the entire period live more please let me let me just interrupt here for one sentence it really raises the authorities but is that enough to raise it politely with the with the greek authorities i mean what have they said probably that everything was ok. no will not always in some cases they have recognized that this has happened these latest reports that you are mentioning we haven't got any confirmation yet to it simply raised we've got the reports we have no confirmation that you know this is not our responsibility our responsibility is to flag abends see when it is wrong in up lies on the right things to do what we

are is not for that had to take care of the welfare of those refugees i would think that's very much in the remit of the u.n.h.c.r. . so i didn't say that i said that the responsibility of accepting then is the responsibility of states then of course we've been working very hard for the past 5 years with the recall thought it is to ensure the welfare to the extent possible as those refugees you know recently this being that european states that finally after a years of negotiation have accepted to take for example another a number of miners from the islands this being in acceptance by the greek state to move the most vulnerable especially because of the endemic alt of the centers in some of the islands to better places so there's been some evolution this been some progress it's difficult greece he's still very much left at all on the front line

of this crisis just like malta italy and other front line. countries you know there has been really exist and to share this in europe we've been advocating for the system. for 5 years distin it's still subject to negotiation almost case by case and these problems we can do you know to occur if we don't have the systems viscerally you mentioned the greek islands refugees that have tested positive for covert 19 how concerned are you about that and what does the un it's their plan to do with this crisis that's developing. actually did not jar it he also refugees and asylum seekers who tested positive are on the mainland not on the islands if you will in the islands as well but limited numbers as i said the greek government has taken some good decisions to move out of the eye of the centers in particular do people that are most exposed as there lee people are people who have medical conditions so that operation has been going on for the past few weeks and

continues but clearly you know those centers are overcrowded and without it more decisive move of people to the mainland problems we continue to exist in particular if crossings from turkey resume in larger numbers and the population goes up again . if you have a grammy the united nations high commissioner for refugees thank you thank you. and here's a reminder of all top stories we're covering for you today passenger jets with a boss a 100 people on board has crashed in a residential area and parked on southern city of karachi he said the plane approached by a state wrong part of a stunning international airlines will move from the hole to the crash occurred just moments before it was due to luck. and that's it for me and the news team from now i'll be back with an update at the top of the meantime don't forget you can keep up to date with the latest news on our web site

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