training success for. tucker. starts jan 27th. this is c w news live from berlin the 1st arrests in hong kong under beijing's controversial new security law police used water cannon and detained dozens of protesters says they cracked down on public displays of pro independence material under the new law offenders could end up in prison for life. also coming up germany takes over the

t.v. use presidency at the most challenging time in its history in her final term as chancellor how will it come to define and the american long term legacy and the quarantine condrey for german authorities trying to test who is and who is intel thing in a community that has been backed under lockdown due to cope with 19. thank you. i'm sorry kelly walked into the program hong kong police have used water cannons to disperse activists protesting against the new security law imposed on the territory by beijing the demonstrators have gathered in the causeway bay shopping district where police warned them that they might face a arrest and prosecution for displaying pro independence banners now dozens of arrests were made i then. a water cannon drove up and began dispersing the

protesters the new security law targets the session subversion and terrorism with punishments of up to life in prison. and correspondent for the congo is standing by for us in a mall in hong kong 50 what is the situation where you are. i'm standing outside a high end shopping going downtown potong just now when we passed through the last 70 of also stopped by police officers on line at the corner of my and a stop and search everyone inside and more on the footbridge so this is just a just a if your sense of life how the law enforcement is carried out today. more those 3 or 4 thousands of police officers are deployed today to control the home or to life stop any kind of life public assembly and political capital gatherings today if they banned any kind of this book at least today and are just now. just my other is

to this is the shopping in a more today because that today is a public holiday but they are going to go on stop it such as well. no no but it was the best there but this is the style and the way our law enforcement is today and thinking about like the 1st arrestee this is a similar kind of like strategy that police asked if we stop and search on many people on the street so this is what we observed on the 1st day of information ok so we. saw a lot of searches there but what we have had reports the police have already started detaining people under the new legislation what more do we know about those 1st initial arrests. the 1st arrest the what is the specter of boy folly to national security to all because the whole system of lack of like we're all hoping to find the slogans written on it so.

police have already issue like public warnings are likely not to incite. this kind of place of fashion and the fashion and if we upset over the last couple of hours night police keep what morning people like not to chant and the like slogans all like to show any protest. play cause like justin let you all want like in the past like something about my home coming in and saw something about liberate hong kong so that it would be on something maybe it's just me right now under the new law and and you have mentioned the report it was a study of how being oppressed and already some are accused of folly from the national security or some are suspected of dissipating in the illegal assembly because in hong kong thank you it's germany today 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

pandemic of germany kicked off its e.u. custodianship by projecting the words together for europe's for covering on to berlin's iconic brandenburg gate the slogan is a reference to the damage caused by the virus pandemic which has plunged the 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 angela merkel also facing a personal challenge the next 6 months are potentially the greatest but most certainly the last opportunity to shape her legacy thing. angela merkel had grand plans for her final performance as european leader 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 mean if the pandemic with its economic downturn is the largest challenge in europe's history. doesn't answer the 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 cheerleading just get it done response both inside germany and across europe both her health care 'd it 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 you 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. debt sending the signal that she's intent on holding europe together what ever it takes. a joint appearance with french president amanda marcotte saw her sacrifice what had 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 debt that mostly 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 giants 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 are 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 germany east chancellery 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 and barbara vessel joins us from brussels and you now 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 shared 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 is 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 and 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 let's not forget that in you probably china policy that is going to be 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 or expect so to be able to walk on water she's but immune human however soon 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 of the view from berlin barbara bizzle in brussels thank you so much to both of you. and let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world president donald trump has approved plans to withdraw nearly 10000 u.s. troops from germany he did not specify when the reduction is would happen but it's expected that most of the personnel will be sent to poland president trump has

repeatedly accused germany of not contributing enough to pay their spending. for the u.s. government's top infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci has sounded the alarm about the rapid spread of the corona virus he says the number of daily cases could more than doubles if the authorities failed to contain a surge of infections across several states. and he opened up at least 50 people have been killed in violence after the killing of a popular singer a child though whom desa was known for his songs advocating the rights of the country's a role ethnic group and was considered a voice against political and economic repression he was shot dead on monday night . authorities in northwestern germany are preparing to use the strict lockdown imposed on some districts after a coded 1000 outbreak flaring at a new 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 tanya's meat processing plant and other residents want out about 650 people have been restricted to this block on the outskirts of feral 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 quarantine gradually but he still faces one big obstacle trying to figure out who is 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 in feral and in the neighboring larger city of also want out after all it's summer vacation but numerous german holiday resorts

will only accept travelers from high risk locations if they tested negative for the coronavirus this temporary testing facility is being run with the help of soldiers from the german army. take about every day we test over 700 people here honestly what we've yet to see a positive test that's some good news for a change or good news but people here are still angry especially at the management of the 10 his meat plant which was ground 0 for a fresh outbreak of the pendent make in this region. so it's their fault and the meat plant acted incredibly irresponsibly that was to put it so the police in the city need to come down hard on them. for now the city has its hands full. it has to decide who may and may not be released from quarantine the workers have to check people against lists of those who've been tested this is 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 medicament up until then local residents will have to live with lockdown restrictions. and with that you're up to date on t w news i'm sarah kelly in berlin there's more on our website to deputy dot com also on social media. thank you so much for joining us take care and seizing. a meal and i'm to welcome to the 2nd season the only sense of the planet on the brink of disaster we just longed in-depth interviews with experts about one question how to change the only reason.