this is g w news from berlin tonight the 1st arrests have been made in hong kong under a controversial new security law police detained hundreds of protesters when state cracking down on public displays of pro independence flags under the new law could face life in prison if convicted also coming up tonight russians a sign off on president vladimir putin's constitutional reforms and changes could keep in for years to come and ethiopia erupts in anger in

violence after each celebrated singer is shot dead. by viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome police in hong kong have made the 1st arrests since a controversial new security law imposed by beijing came into force yesterday as thousands of people defied a public ban to protest the wall authorities responded with water cannon and tear gas taking hundreds of demonstrators into custody under the new law the simple act of publicly displaying a pro independence banner or flag has now become a criminal offense. despite the new law and a ban on holding marches during the corona pandemic hundreds of protesters showed

up. after a short warning it just took minutes for the police to roll into action. one protester was arrested for holding the hong kong independence flag dozens more were arrested later at a news conference pro-democracy lawmakers found themselves in a peace sign a situation now not allowed to speak english or dress the media. i usually say a few words of english today the national community and the media but not quite hot . because of this law. if i say anything to you. ok arrest that when i walk out 2. at a flag ceremony earlier in the day the territories leaders marked the 23rd anniversary of its return to chinese control after british rule. chief executive

carol lam hailed the new law as the most important development since the handover the purpose of this piece of legislation is not just to punish it is also to deter to deter people from committing such serious off fences as cessation some 30 in a state power terrorist a to the t. s. and so on and so on at the same time chinese troops are stationed in hong kong held a joint military exercise showing off their military might. well there has been some criticism of the new security law in hong kong u.s. presidential candidate joe biden calling it a death blow to the territory's freedom and today britain summoned china's ambassador to communicate its concerns but the beijing government insists that the wall will restore stability in hong kong after nearly a year of unrest. hong kong activists say their freedoms are being eroded

however beijing says the it's necessary for the city to prosper and that many countries welcomed this. deal with on behalf of $53.00 countries cuba welcome to the law of the people's republic of china on safeguarding national security in hong kong at the session of the united nations human rights council the belief that the law will have to sustain and steady implementation of one country 2 systems. a principle within which a high degree of autonomy was supposed to be guaranteed in hong kong for at least 50 years when britain handed back its former colony to china in 1997 the new law is a flagrant breach of the agreement says the city's last u.k. government. very. together starting a new code war with china just making it clear that we will call out china.

the u.k. now says it would uphold its historic duty and offer a route for up to 3000000 residents to settle in the country that could make citizenship possible of this national security across the atlantic the u.s. has punitively revoked home costs special financial and business status washington says it's not only concerned about the safety of hong kong s. but also those of americans. article $38.00 of the new law also purports to apply to offenses committed outside of hong kong by non residents of hong kong this likely includes 'd americans this is outrageous and an affront to all nations the u. meanwhile has said it's discussing with international partners possible meshes in response german foreign minister haiku moscow has called developments in hong kong

exceptionally worrying. these protest is a worry to the they've pledged to try as hard as they can to keep their voices heard. well for more i'm joined now by reinhard critical for he is the chair of the china delegation in the european parliament he's also the foreign affairs spokesperson for the german green party mr berger coverage good to see you again international reaction to to this the security law in hong kong it has been very tame almost muted and that includes the european union why hasn't brussels been able to come up with a concrete statement in reaction why don't we haven't heard anything yet. well 1st of all on this day i think we should all. say thank you for the courageous the fenders of democracy in hong kong and express

our great level of solidarity with them it is a fact that the european parliament in its last session did adopt a resolution that spoke out very clearly and we identify measures that should and could be taken if beijing in deed follows through with this imposition of a law 'd contrary to their promises to the citizens of hong kong and contrary also to international law and one of the steps that we have advocated would be to take the people's republic of china to the international court of justice because of the breach of the sino british joint declaration and the i.c.c. p.r. and is that going to happen i mean the security legislation is now law so china has

gone through with what it wants to do are we going to see europe those doing your achieve said there's security the law is not yet in force with. 48 hours for a fleet under of present from the lion from the european commission has said that she will deliberate with europe europe for 2 years. for steps to can possibly be taken together and i think that's a good approach there has been a lot of critical language that will gold be a no we won't have to put a price tag to these 3 each off all the geisha ins and all international law and i'm pushing that they eat you will indeed move forward we're always the fastest because it's not so easy to bring $27.00 sovereign member states

together but we take the right approach i'm convinced of that. there are those who will say that china is doing everything. it does have a right to stop subversion and foreign interference in hong kong doesn't. well we can outvote a legal argument oh i'm booked up you don't touch trust me trust the human rights experts of the united nations they have criticised this law or consider that as fast been mentioned before article 38 of this law threatens anybody and everybody around the globe that takes a stance that the beijing authorities think will be considered should be considered

seditious by their. how could they possibly assume that it would be a legal right to export that actually carrying system to all the countries around the globe come on that's a job. is to run hard break up the chair of the china delegation in the european parliament joining us tonight from here in berlin we hope to talk with you again soon mr protocol for if and when we do see action from europe thank you for your time tonight. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the united states has balls almost the entire world's supply of a drug to treat cope with 19 deaths of a year helps feeble recover more quickly it's manufactured by gilliam which has sold almost all of its output for the next 3 months to the united states government

. german unemployment numbers were slightly in june to 6 point 2 percent as the overall number of new cases continues to slow $40000.00 workers registered themselves as unemployed during the month germany's labor department credits its short time work scheme which keeps workers on the payroll for the relatively low numbers. for germany has taken over the rotating presidency of the european union council's standing in front of berlin's brandenburg gate today german foreign minister symbolically received the baton from his croatian counterpart for asia held the presidency in the 1st 6 months of this year germany's time at the helm is said to be dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout one of the 1st challenges will be to make sure that the e.u.'s 7 year financial framework is approved by all member states. we want to solve the most important

problems that are the basis for completely getting out of the economic downturn into which we got as a result of the corona pandemic this has to happen in solitary to no one should be left behind everyone needs to do well because a need then we would be able to profit from each other we want to ensure a europe becomes united and as a united front against the background of competition between the major powers the united states russia and china we will only be able to defend our values and interests in future if we do so as europeans of look at all concurrent good as its own. there was the german foreign minister speaking earlier today a weeklong vote on constitutional changes in russia came to a close today early results have signaled strong support for president vladimir putin's reforms was nearly a 3rd of the votes counted more than 70 percent of russians voted in favor of the changes which could see vladimir putin run for 2 more terms as president

president vladimir putin is probably the only person who came to this moscow polling station without a mask today is the last day of the russian wind vote the kremlin even declared a bank holiday so that as many people as possible could take part the constitutional reform has already been legally approved by the country's national and regional parliaments to a public vote to validate the move the amendments provide for many popular social changes including regular pension increases and a minimum wage but they'll also allows law to me putin to continue running for president theoretically he could remain in the kremlin till 2036 this man voted no he says i don't need a new czar i like it because i'm afraid of change and whenever things change in russia we end up worse off than before i see you staying at some polling stations voters were only required to show their passports election observers were not

allowed complete access and while voting was still in progress the 1st results were published with the good of the procedure is highly questionable the vote itself the whole process was invented solely for this purpose a referendum like this is not even provided for in the constitution. going by already published preliminary results it looks like a big majority favors the amendments. are there for more on this let's go now to almost no correspondent really sure we can even say you believe we know that the russian parliament had already approved the constitutional amendment so why was this very important for president putin. the parliament has approved the amendments and actually the constitution has been on sale here the new constitution for several weeks already but this vote was important for vladimir putin to show that he has the public's backing after all this vote and these amendments determine his political future since he was reelected putin was

reelected president in 2008 and 18 the debate here in russia between political observers has been how he might stay in power and if he doesn't stay in power who he might hand over power to so in a sense this amendment this these amendments to the constitution and this vote kind of decide that whole question and some observers say that this vote was actually rushed through now because surveys show that trust in bloody mirror putin is falling and the lockdown measures over the coronavirus here in russia have hit russian the russian economy hard and this vote in a sense is kind of referendum on put in himself so it was important to hold it now . we understand that there have been reboard so violations and irregularities in this what more do we know. well the author

already is here in russia took a lot of measures to kind of ensure the safety of this vote during the pandemic including spreading out the election over 7 days allowing online voting allowing people to vote at home and independent monitors here from for example the monitors goalless they say that a lot of those measures actually make it easier to manipulate the vote so if the vote is spread out over 7 days that means fewer people are at the ballot box that means it's easier to carry out ballot stuffing there have been polling stations outside with kind of the ballots basically visible to view there have been a lot of stories about the online voting that's been taking place here in moscow and get another city as well because people have sort of gone and voted twice there's been several reports about that here once online and once at the

polling station the central electoral commission on the other hand has said that there have been basically no big violations and that many of the reports on violations are fake. sure and with the latest from moscow thank you in ethiopia at least 80 people have been killed in protests following the fatal shooting of a popular singer. who was known for songs advocating for the rights of the country's oromo ethnic group smoke was still evident over the region after the clashes on does or was regarded as a voice against political and economic repression and supporters turned in their thousands after he was killed many of them blame security forces and they say that the shooting was politically motivated. why has the death of the senior calls to so much outrage earlier i put the questions you. love from our

africa. john lewis known for his resistance the song or the song the song much more focused on political operation economy cooperation of the automobile people and he's been really widely celebrated as superstar. especially between 20142000 in doing. this the songs we're used. to to deny the people who are for the protest and finally. the protest pushed their former. team to come up with some reform. that is not only is what's causing outrage. calling is. this a good divorce at least it. including don't want to. consider

formal leader of the protesters. or iraq oh and curly and also a long time. ago get more rights. and other. activists and people that was from our africa desk. germany's defense minister on a great current has disbanded part of the country's elite k s k special forces unit that's after links to far right extremism or identify the ministers saying that the group had quote a toxic leadership that fostered extreme right sympathies and overhaul of the organization is planned and around 70 soldiers will be redistributed among other units the k s k was formed back in 1960 focus on anti-terrorism operations concerns

over the group's affinity with far right extremism have been growing for years. our for more on this is bring in our political correspondent brunt and he needs you hons the k s k germany's elite military unit is linked to far right extremists is this just a coincidence or does the german army have a serious problem with far right extremist. well i think you can call it a coincidence obviously this is an elite force comparable to the delta force in the united states so it does attract people who are interested in weapons who are interested in military matters and i suppose that just lays the basis lays the groundwork for something of a more conservative and possibly even going into the right wing spectrum of political views in this unit but the indications that there have been these tendencies in the unit have been known for many many years and the incident which

really sparked outrage was a party that happened in 2017 in other words 3 years ago a party in this unit where some members of the unit used hitler. signals you sang songs referring to the nazi times played music from that area and there were no consequences at all within the unit so there does seem to be a serious problem certainly within that unit with right wing sentiments you know these connections we learned more today from germany's defense minister let's take a listen to what she said he and the news media. the analysis of recent events in relation to cases of far right extremism has made it clear that alongside its excellent military performance mikeus k. has in recent years at least in part cut itself adrift.

parts of the k s k have been led astray by an unhealthy elitism on the part of some of its officers. and the toxic leadership has arisen which helped develop ment of extremist tendencies and an unacceptable lax handling of equipment and ammunition. we just heard the defense ministers there used the words lax handling of equipment and ammunition what does that mean well it really is a euphemism what she's talking about is that the unit is missing close to 60000 rounds of ammunition and 60 kilograms of high explosive. and accounted for you could say that that is just about keeping of books that just didn't really keep track of what was used in their training but also very recently a soldier from this unit had his house searched his private quarters searched and

then a whole cache of weapons of explosives of ammunition and of nazi material was found so if you combine those 2 pieces of information the head of the german army today said that leads one to think that this is the amount of equipment and explosives that could really be used for a terrorist attack so it's a very very worrying you know that could be used and so that leads you to the next question is there a real danger of right wing terrorism in the ranks of the german buddhists fare the german army. you have to put it into perspective a little bit we're talking here about 70 people in a unit that comprise prizes more than a 1000 so it's a very small group but there have been incidents of right wing sentiment of right wing as using the german army for training and trying to get equipment from the german army or over the german army for several years and we have to remember that

germany is particularly sensitive about this with its nazi paused so it's very very careful to keep its army from becoming a right wing a terrorist army in this at the same time the number of rightwing crimes in germany have increased in recent months so here too the sensitivity is particularly raised so it is very worrying in terms of the german society and the german army are blue correspondent on the story for us tonight here in berlin and as always thank you well the coronavirus lock down showed many of us here in europe just how much we take halsall free border crossings for granted workers who were allowed to cross those borders during the last you all were subjected to strict control the experience has shown a light on how much germany depends on its neighbors for that easy access sometimes it's the seemingly mundane things that best eliminate what it means to be

part of the european union for frank a diamond it's driving through the german belgian border at the crack of dawn eyes of him is that with us well let's hear it really is important to me and i have to say i really profit from the open borders and the freedom of movement. i think i like traveling and i've been to several countries with my family. i'm doing my apprenticeship in belgium and it's super easy all i have to do since the locked and restrictions were lifted she's been able to cross the border freely from her home city of art and to house that in belgium where she's training to be a pastry chef she no longer has to produce her work contract at the border. every week the $25.00 bakers here mix a ton of flour 250 liters of cream and hundreds of kilos of fruit to create tempting treats yet despite the huge quantities involved that this is far from an

industrial production line the focus here is on individual craft it's precisely this kind of training that franco couldn't find in germany. for the young apprentice britain's departure from the european union and the increasingly anti european referee coming from both right and left is a source of worry. this comes now i can understand it because i mainly experience the advantages also this is truly the longest period of peace that europe has ever had. but they were the bankers money over i had to during her break franca has time to consider how political developments could threaten one of her personal dreams. a dream a bit of england of a small cafe in england rex it is a really stupid situation for me. as. the front

cover remains optimistic for her the everyday reality of the e.u. devoid of flags anthems and pomp it's what mushers the most. infill cakes there you're watching the w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the big stick around we'll be right back.

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