exchange. got nothing w. . made for mines. this is v.w. news live from berlin protests return to hong kong police fired tear gas at the pro-democracy activists as they take to the streets against a proposed security deal they say threatens the territories autonomy also coming up . muslims around the world break their fast for the last time in

a ramadan overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic. then you mean a tenuous who becomes the 1st sitting israeli prime minister to go on trial as he faces corruption charges we'll go live to jerusalem for the latest. and in week 2 of the bomb the speakers returned from a forced break byron showed their heads above the rest after dispatching frank 1st the stars are aligned for a matchup with 2nd place. i'm paul farley s welcome to the program protests have broken out in hong kong after china sparked outrage with proposed new legislation that would ban wash beijing calls secessionism and subversive activity it would allow chinese security agents

to operate in the territory pro-democracy campaigners are calling it a threat to hong kong's autonomy. tear gas once again shrouds the streets of hong kong. protests returned after china pushed for a strict new national security law for the territory under cover of the corona virus. the national security law is even more damaging and harmful than the extradition bell last year introduced by the government and now when time is running out in hong kong we would describe now as the beginning of the end we don't have enough time but we still need to continue the fight. for opponent see this is the end of hong kong's one country 2 systems relationship with china the legislation that gives beijing more surveillance powers is supported by hong kong's pro chinese legislators and local security chiefs.

were not of the great majority. i don't think the great majority of the engine in the interest. of the. central government so i don't think that is an issue. facing rubberstamp assembly is expected to approve the lot next week but protests on the small island may prove difficult to stamp out. well earlier we spoke to journalist florence to chante in hong kong about the protesters concerns. well interestingly today's protest was initially planned against another low called the national flag in and then rio that the local wellman lexical was about ease about to pass and seeing several positional makers have been disqualified to prove them aggressive get has no means of blocking any religious lesion at the moment so diesel was meant for be equal to be districts disrespect to or the chinese flag or

the national anthem as hold on people actually love to do as they see it as that right to continue to express their dislike of the chinese flag and the chinese and then but of cool since we heard last thursday night china is now going to impose a new national security no intended at clamping down on anything and everything you've done remotely associated to treason sedition secession foreign interference terrorism then of course deal congress has become even more concerned and some of them think to these one of that last chance to protest and out a common rule of hong kong as just to testing could soon be seen or treated as something much more serious. muslims around the world have been celebrating the annual festival that marks the end of ramadan but this year celebrations are some june the coronavirus pandemic means no prayers at the mosque for the faithful no

family reunions and no meal together to mark the end of fasting. filmed at this time last year this is what dhaka in bangladesh normally looks like in preparation for 8. now measures introduced to curb the coronavirus have left it on recognizable. normally we see many customers coming in ahead of aid but this year there are far fewer we've opened our shop for the last 4 days and sold nothing. more than 400 reported deaths and 30000 and fictions prompted the country to extend its lockdown restrictions until the end of may. confined to their homes many will find the 3 day holiday a very different experience this year. as there is a nation wind and we can't do our shopping because the markets are closed we have donated the money for all our aid related expenses to the pull. of. even in europe where some countries have begun to ease restrictions face preparations have

been hindered by rules that prevent large gatherings. i think this will be a sad byrom for me because no one will come to visit and i will spend a learned but i will buy groceries and cook everything just as i always do and i will send what i make to my loved ones to enjoy it hard. for strictures are not most determined to celebrate the end of a long month of fasting with plenty of comfort food. well d.w. bureau chief in beirut bosler reedy joins us now for more high basile well lebanon has been going through a difficult time lately how has that affected celebrations there. to check it in huge way as you can see behind me on. one of the supposed to be one of the most busiest cities and lebanon and one of the main commercial districts as you can see behind me the it's almost empty most of the

shops in here are closed completely closed for good so the situation it's very hard for you but he stays one comes to ramadan this year. it's completely different as we mentioned in the report the one used to witness in the last few years these gathering family gathering gathering neighbors all and so on it's completely lost to this year you can't witness any one of these. customs or habits and you've been in lebanon on a completely different situation to the ones we've seen in previous years can you give us a sense of how worshippers have been managing both during ramadan and now ensuring 8. yes so of course most of the. current. districts somehow they are facing 2 main.

problems or crisis 1st of all the swine you mentioned the cup it 19 a pandemic and 2nd the financial economy and. social crises so all the combination of these crises made it easy to stay at home even. the most complete. small number of. the day. except today we witnessed some of these. 2. mosques but in very dull numbers. thank you for. well let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world well despite the threat posed by covert 1000 americans have been heading to the beach to celebrate memorial day weekend the holiday marks the unofficial start of summer in the u.s. president donald trump celebrated with his 1st round of golf since the pandemic broke and. fire has engulfed

a warehouse on san francisco's iconic fisherman's wharf sending a thick plume of smoke over the waterfront the blaze threatened to spread to a historic world war 2 era ship before firefighters brought the flames under control. while in israel all eyes are on a courtroom in jerusalem where the trial of benyamin netanyahu israel's long serving prime minister is getting under way it was postponed in march because of the coronavirus crisis the court rejected a request by death and yahoo's lawyers for him not to attend the 1st hearing one week ago benjamin netanyahu was sworn in as israel's new prime minister for the 5th time. today his trial is set to begin in jerusalem it's the 1st time in israel's history that a sitting prime minister has been indicted netanyahu does not have to step down

until proven guilty. at sunday's court hearing the charges will be formally presented case $1000.00 who is suspected of receiving gifts from wealthy friends case 2000 alleges netanyahu attempted to influence a newspaper to gain more positive coverage and case 4000 alleges that he granted a series of favors to israel's largest telecommunications company in exchange for positive media coverage on a news website. the charges fraud breach of trust and bribery there have been countless demonstrations both for and against him his opponents say he cannot be prime minister and on trial at the same time his supporters say the indictments are part of a political campaign against him. netanyahu himself has denied all allegations but the trial is expected to go on for some time. well for more let's speak to due to

abuse tanya kramer in jerusalem tanya what can we expect from today's proceedings. one standing here right in front of the court which isn't east jerusalem and it's pretty loud over here because we have them on stations here on the streets there's a lot of security as you can see here behind me demonstrations for and against netanyahu it's actually quite a historical day because it's the 1st time that a sitting prime minister will stand trial and today what's expected as that the judges there are 3 are proceeding touches they will be reading the charges to the defendants coming here to the court well if netanyahu is found guilty what kind of sentence can we expect and we're just seeing images here live images actually as you're speaking coming from outside the courtroom there in jerusalem tanya. but 1st of all it's expected to be of all

the long trial now he has been charged with. throat breach of trust in private ins considered the case for 1000 as we've seen in this report before that's considered the most serious case for him so they could be sentenced to up to 10 years but again this is the very beginning is just the opening of the trial which is expected to be a rather long trial but the 1st a preliminary stage and then it will after a couple of months come to you when testimonies and witnesses are called. ok well tanya kramer of the courtroom there in jerusalem for the start of benyamin netanyahu trial thank you so much. to germany's. in this league of football now the 1st major sports league in the world to return to play after a forced coronavirus break and this is the 2nd week of matches played to virtually

empty stadiums and one constant in all of this is that barn munich's rain atop the league standings looks like they're going to maintain for now at home on saturday they were tested by frankfurt but emerged unscathed ready for next week's big match against 2nd place dortmund here's more the allianz arena hosted its 1st ever blunders league ghost game as robert love and dusty and co welcomed frankfurt to munich the lack of atmosphere didn't hinder the action gorecki fired home thomas miller's cross to put the champions one nil up after 16 minutes. then went from provider to goal scorer by ns veteran forward is enjoying his most productive season in years and this strike put them on top at half time if frankfurt were hoping for a change in fortunes after the break they were left disappointed within a minutes of the restart robert leaven dusky made it 3 nil with his 27th goal of

the season but it wasn't quite game over yet martin pounced on a loose ball to cut by its lead in the 52nd minute and 3 minutes later he scored again to make it 3 to frankfurt we're back in the game thanks to that said to half . but the visitors just couldn't help themselves when alfonso davies made it for 2 to buy and plenty to gel some finance as his poor touch. and then hinted again made by ns victory sayf the defender's bumbling attempt to control the ball saw him divert it into his own net. 52 the final score and league leaders by an edge in close that's another title. well now a reminder of our top story protesters in hong kong have been matched with tear gas and riot police in the 1st demonstrations since the coronavirus prices activists took to the streets after the chinese leadership sparked outrage with the proposed

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