this is g.w. news live from bergland the 1st hour rusts in hong kong under beijing's controversial new security law police detained protesters as they cracked down on public displays of pro independence materials under the new law offenders could end up in prison for life. also coming up in germany takes over the european union's presidency at the most challenging time in its history in her final term as chancellor how will it come to define angela merkel's long term legacy plus fenced off and under

surveillance a palestinian family shows d.w. news what their lives have become in the west bank as israel plans to annex parts of the territory and the quarantine quandary for german authorities trying to test who is and is healthy in a community that's been put back under lockdown by covert 19. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program hong kong police have made their 1st arrest of pro-democracy protesters since beijing imposed a tough new security law on tuesday demonstrators had gathered in the causeway bay shopping district where police warned that that they might face arrest and prosecution for displaying pro independence banners now at least 30 arrests have been made and national security. law targets session to session sneak subversion

and terrorism with punishments of up to life in prison. a spring in. kong who is standing by for us in hong kong with consequences here phoebe under this new controversial law what more do we know about the 1st arrests . for the 1st arrested under the implementation of national security always suspected of bali taking the law because he posed as a flat with worse off hong kong independent. chinese the slogans written on the flat so police suspect him off like maybe like probably light of the persian off however we don't know the actual yet but he was arrested and he is the 1st to arrest the guy on the 1st day off the implementation of the new law so apart from that this morning we also covered and other small scale protests in

the morning and now the man was arrested because the police claimed that he it was one time before so already some people are being arrested today and police are now issuing warnings of people not to incite bush and succession on the 1st day off the implementation and they have also banned protests for today how is the pro-democracy movement likely to react now. well today is the 23rd anniversary of hanover our home like going back to china's true ironically today like 17 years ago this is this is today like west hong kong the 1st massive social movement to protest against a national security law in 2000 this week but today this is the 1st year of life such a rally and you'll rarely a traditional rally being fanned by police and politicians and pro-democracy

figures are still calling for people to encouraging people to come out to defy police van and win though now some lawmakers and some uncertain how ready their presence in causeway bay police are now trying to disperse them by water cannon and pepper spray ok c b let's ask you just generally speaking some have said that this law it marks the end of one country 2 systems for hong kong what is the mood there where you are how have hung congress been reacting. what are happening in survey and poll same like showing that like maybe like over half of the citizens are not satisfied with the law particularly the way out and that's because nobody knows anything at house after law until until his implementation last night in the late night so this is people think this is going

to bypass all the local institution and the check and balances are in the can somehow come and we can feel like i said a why and sweeping like fear here because this law actually really frighten people and deter people from coming out because they want to place a much higher cost them before they would face probably a life sentence of life advocating something against the chinese government so it's a fear and. definitely santa show effect to the city if you can with the view from hong kong on this breaking news arrests already made under china's new controversial national security law thank you. well now in other news germany takes over the rotating presidency of the european union berlin will guide the course of the block for 6 months at a time of huge social and economic upheaval triggered by the global coronavirus and demick germany kicked off its custodianship by projecting the words together for

europe's recovery on to berlin's iconic brand of berg a the slogan is a reference to the damage caused by the virus pandemic which has plunged european economies into recession chancellor angela merkel has described it as the greatest challenge the e.u. has ever faced well now in her final term as chancellor merkel also faces a personal challenge the next 6 months are potentially the greatest but almost certainly the last opportunity for her to shape her legacy angular machall had grand plans for her final performance is european but then came corona since the pandemic started she's used every opportunity to stress what she's up against over the coming months depending me if the pandemic with its economic downturn is the largest challenge in europe's history. biggest crisis in the history of the european union because it's. new but it's not an exaggeration to say that we're

facing the largest economic challenge in the history of the e.u. . depending on how she navigates europe's coronavirus recovery political circles not just here in berlin will be redrafting her entry into the history books. with a no nonsense no 'd cheerleading just get it done the response both inside germany and across europe both for health care 'd leadership and her economic leadership has made clear that angola merkel is the leader that germany and europe needs right now not forgotten but on hold seems her old image as austerity chancellor who tried to push countries towards a common take on national budgets she also failed in pushing for a joint migration policy. in a remarkable turnaround angle americal started crossing her own red lines by

allowing joint e.u. dead sending the signal that she's intent on holding europe together what ever it takes. joint appearance with french president amanda marcotte saw her sacrifice what has been a german fiscal principle for years no joint e.u. debt proposing the 1st 500000000000 of the corona recovery plan for the 1st time germany agreed to guarantee that most benefits other e.u. countries like italy a potential game changer we had the impression as watchers that germany e.u. policy was paralyzed so now corona happened and the giant started to move and i think this is a very good sign. at the same time europe struggles to stay out of the way as relations between the world superpowers china and donald trump's america further

strained by the crisis in germany we don't know exactly what the world order is going to look like coming out of this will we have a cold war between the americans and chinese that is actually an open question right now and there's no question that how you respond to a crisis like that will be the most important line in the obituaries that are written for many political leaders around the world not just chancellor merkel so machall final months and nice chancery until she leaves office in autumn 2021 will prove to be decisive and we have team coverage of the story in a has it is in berlin barbara faisal joins us from brussels and you know i'll begin 1st if you germany's model for the e.u. presidency is together for europe's recovery what's in the plan. the german government will be throwing all its weight behind efforts to get the e.u. out of this very existential corona crisis you have to remember that anglo-american

we saw in the report says it is the biggest crisis the e.u. has ever faced and this time around this is an economic slump that is nobody's fault it was caused by a virus and the economy is essentially came to a standstill which is something that angle america has recognized which is why she is willing to take these revolutionary steps as some people here in berlin call it that she is willing to give the e.u. commission approval to issue shad bond which can then 750000000000 euros worth some of that money can then be given to the countries that are hardest hit by the crisis italy and spain and you always have to remember that germany desperately depends on those economies in those countries working as well but certainly it will not be smooth sailing for this plan for the german presidency barbara i'll turn to you with that talk with us about the challenge of building

consensus especially on the e.u. level. the challenge is tremendous because there is a political side to this economic downturn and just talked about the u. e.u. is sort of seen or threaten to fly apart so many countries think now we have to sort of close our borders we have to have all down and just act in our own interest and what i'm going to america is going to tell them over and over again and i assume it is want going to be one of the main and central slogans of a presidency is it is in your interest that we all act together she really has to keep these countries together and that is the main political challenge to sort of combat nationalism combat those forces of isolationism that have sprung up as throughout so many countries in eastern europe and particularly in the silos so that is the main task and what also will be very difficult i mean it doesn't end there we have to see a long list of issues she has to deal was breck's it that sort of forget that in

you probably china policy that is going to be a very very difficult thing to balance but in the end it is really the huge expectations that are being put on to anglo-american shoulder everybody expect her expect her to be able to walk on water she's but human however i assume and everybody else here in brussels things that she's going to be do the very best and she has just 6 months to do it and as part of this rotating presidency the ones with the view from berlin barbara vessel in brussels thank you so much to both of you. it's a scam he said the number of daily cases could more than double if the authorities fail to contain a surge of infections across several states already. heavy downpours are sweeping across the southwest in eastern china also in flooding and mudslides almost 3 quarters of a 1000000 people have been evacuated in the east in the south west at least 12

people have died 10 are missing. the israeli cabinet is poised to debate the annexation of several jewish settlements in the occupied west bank the move likely to inflame tensions with the palestinians and hamper any future peace negotiations over the status of the territory in beit except a palestinian enclave on the west bank just outside of jerusalem it is completely surrounded by a village of israeli settlers soon this settler land could become part of israel the palestinians say that would be unacceptable d.w. correspondent tanya kramer reports this tunnel road leads to the palestinian village of beit exxon next to the security barrier that separates israel from the occupied west bank at this particular spot the funds of the israeli barrier was built around a house belonging to one palestinian family that i have slipped in this almost

unique and clay for right next to a jury settlement the entrance gate and cameras are remotely monitored. like other palestinian solders that i have wonders what will happen to his home if the settlement becomes officially part of israel a move based on the controversial you as peace proposal put forth in january and. i consider the annexation that we're hearing about to be a show of american and israeli arrogance in order to confiscate more land the israeli and american governments just want the land but without the people killed it's only a money and. so far israel hasn't presented any official maps to explain which areas it could next 1st and where the lines would be drawn and i have is concerned that the move could lead to yet more isolation and further restrictions on movement is specially since the tram plan and visions only limited enclaves for

the palestinians. there's no future. there's no hope of. my hopes are gone that so the support we see for the israelis nobody cares about us palestinians had to work with all of the union movement between different parts of the occupied west bank is already very complicated for palestinians so now we also want to go to the settlement it's just literally and lead away from us but to get there we have to drive to the nearest checkpoint and it will take us some time. it's more than an hour's drive to cross the kalandia checkpoint. only palestinians with an israeli permit can cross from here. from there we return to the settlement of give 100. who is one of the settlements founders like most residents he's waiting for more details on the

annexation plans from the israeli government. as well to shia holy significant things that could come out of this plan. is that it can open up a very positive opportunity for us to expand our settlements for our children and it's also good for the people on the other side of the fence if an exaggeration goes ahead it's expected to be a long process on the palestinian side of the fence uncertainty is crowing as once again maps everything good without the people living there having much say about where the lines are drawn. now into some business news and like many economies germany shuttered business jaring the wave of corona virus infections in the spring workers in restaurants ours and shops would almost certainly have lost their jobs if not for a government scheme that kept a majority of them on payrolls there were new study study shows that just how many workers are actually benefiting from this program have

a look germany's auto industry has been moving at a snail's pace for weeks now with hardly anyone on the production lines the market collapsed after the coronavirus break leaving the workforce with little to do to avoid layoffs some 20 percent of german companies have put their workers on reduced hours known as short time work affected personnel work fewer hours than normal and sometimes not at all the labor agency then makes up some of their lost income money for institute survey shows that $7300000.00 people were on short time work in may that's a stunning 6 times as many years during the global financial crisis in 2009 the surge in short term work is expected to cost the government an extra $10000000000.00 euros this year short time workers 2 major advantages firstly workers get to keep their jobs and secondly as business picks up again companies

have tried and tested teams on hand to quickly ramp up production. but that will also depend now on how the pandemic develops and how valid a company's business model is in the corona era and let's get more on that we are joined by sebastien link he is of the a full institute in munich welcome to the program and thank you for joining us we just heard millions of people unemployed in germany how much worse could it have been without the short time work schemes now good morning welcome and thanks for having us yeah we have does corona crisis affecting the german economy and of course the german market is also very strongly affected by this crisis however unemployment did not increase that much we've seen unemployment going up by less than 2 percentage points and unemployment rate going up by less than 2 percentage points since the beginning of the crisis but we've seen more than $7000000.00 people on showtime burke so decision that we would have

seen lots more on employed if we would not have to scheme in place and so that looks like good news on the face of it but when you drill down a little bit deeper many economists saying that this is essentially helping to prop up so-called dumby jobs which economies would would be better off without so this short time working schemes today just prevent layoffs or or merely delay them. well we cannot say that. we can we know that disproportionately many for means running on short time work that have been in a bad shape before the crisis so we prolong their crisis is instead of letting them going down. netting them going bankrupt but described as so deep and it's in fact affecting firms and industries we've very healthy solid business models.

so. if you look at the drawn of the sector for example if we would not have a short term work scheme we would have had many many unemployed. so this helps the sectors with temporary rifat temporary and big problems that come out of the crisis better ok just very briefly before we go it's expensive how much longer can it continue while this just depends we already see that the number of short time workers is already declining in june is our new estimate for june is that we have 6700000. short time workers and is is mostly coming from some services sectors in some manufacturing sectors the number is still increasing and we do not know whether this can continue for very very long because these sectors have immense problems if you just finger after car industry

and there we also see many many unemployed for the next months so that downlink of the evil institute thank you welcome. 3 authorities in northwestern germany are preparing to ease the strict lockdown imposed in some districts after a covert 1000 outbreak flared of a meat processing factory there people have been ordered to stay in their homes and are banned from traveling anywhere for many of those who have seen quarantine return patience is wearing thin but testing who is healthy and who is not is a major challenge these employees of the chinese meat processing plant another residence here want out about 650 people have been restricted to this block on the outskirts of a city of 25000 in western germany they've been placed under quarantine but this is set to change the mayor is preparing to lift the korean team gradually but he still

faces one big obstacle trying to figure out who's who and who is healthy. there are different lists of people who are actually living there and people who should be there but probably left before the quarantine who've likely headed home the look of isolation crime that many here and felt that in the neighboring largest city guta slow also want out after all it is summer vacation. but they're only allowed to leave if they've tested negative for the coronavirus. this temporary testing facility is being run with the help of soldiers from the german army. take you about every day we test over 700 people here honestly and we've yet to see a positive test that's some good news for a change or good news but people are still angry especially of the management of the chinese meat plant which was ground 0 for a fresh outbreak of the pandemic in this region. it's their fault the meat plant

acted irresponsibly. that was depleted so the police and the city need to come down hard on them. for now the city has its hands full trying to decide who may and may not be released from corn team they have to check people against lists of those who've been tested. it says it's still going to take quite some time weeks maybe months but until we're done with everything by it will likely also take a long time until we finally have a vaccine or drugs to treat the illness. until then local residents will have to live with the lockdown restrictions. billionaire clements twoness who operates the meat processing plant has also come under fire from football fans well he was the chairman of bud to see the club shaka he resigned on tuesday amid the scandal tonus was on shall cause or for 26 years and served as its

chair for nearly 2 decades but there have been growing pressure is on him to resign after the club's dismissal one dislike a seat dismal excuse me of this league season exacerbated by the covert 19 outbreak at his knee plant prosecutors and politicians are seeking information after more than 1500 people tested positive prompting authorities to close the plant and put the district on lockdown. talk more about shock as change at the very top is a little ho talking from d.w. sports and we have this is really not the 1st time that he's been on the wrong side of public opinion as it were not too long ago last year he made some very controversial calm comments and just called a spade a spade these were racist comments he ended up linking africans with overpopulation and climate change it was at a public meeting where somebody had asked him about tax increases the idea of tax increases to combat climate change and his response was you know that could be

money that could be better used if we build power plants in africa and then to quote him because then africans won't cut down trees and then they'll stop making babies when it's night time and for me that should have been the moment when he should have resigned or way he should have been fired but instead he was just given a 3 months suspension where does that leave you just like his meat processing plant is in financial crisis and they have been for quite some time there's been a lot of mismanagement at the top and it is estimated that the club has debts of around $200000000.00 euros and the there are reports in germany right now circulating that the club is even talking with the idea of introducing. a sort of income limit that means that starting next season only signed at all the n n e n u k a that they plan on signing won't receive more than $2500000.00 euros and of course the coronavirus has made everything a lot worse because. it is losing around $2000000.00 euros every ghost.

again without any fans and we don't know when the fans will return to the to the stadiums so and on the pitch of course as well this was a terrible season one to forget they finished in 12 days they had 16 straight losses and of course that means that they are losing out on more money which is champions to the money. but at the same time this could be an a paternity this could be a chance for could to really start anew and rise from the ashes but for us it has overcome all of those controversies and those challenges that de lima talk if it's a long way certainly has thank you. and with that now you're up to date on t.v. it is thank you so much for joining us take care and maybe. sandra

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