this is the w. news live from berlin and the u.k. offers a safe haven to people in hong kong as police arrive hundreds under sweeping new security laws the former colonial power extends immigration rights up to 3000000 eligible concords. also coming up russians signed off on president vladimir putin's constitutional reforms the changes could keep him in office until he is 83 and the trunk administration under fire for allegedly ignoring intelligence reports

suggesting russia offered a bounty trap of u.s. forces killed in afghanistan. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program hong kong's former colonial rule or the u.k. it is offering a safe haven to around 3000000 eligible residents as fears grow over political oppression in the territory london says that it would grant residency rights to those born before $997.00 while hong kong is still was still under british rule now the announcement came as hong kong police made hundreds of arrests under a sweeping new security law imposed by beijing. home come back to the say their freedoms are being eroded however beijing says the it's necessary for the city to prosper and that may. the countries welcomed this. and. on behalf of the

$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 they believe that the law will have to sustained 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. governor. there even. starting a new cold war with just making abs. we will call. 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 law across the atlantic the u.s. has punitively revoked on constitutional financial and business status washington says it's not only concerned about the safety of hong kong is but also that of americans. article $38.00 of the new law also purports to apply to offenses committed outside of on call by residents of hong kong this likely includes 'd americans this is outrageous and an affront to all nations the you 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 good reading. these protests is a worry too but they've pledged to try as hard as they can to keep their voices

heard. and let's get more on that we are joined now by phebe kong who is joining us from hong kong phebe we just heard about this offer of a path to citizenship from the u.k. for hong kong residents what's been the reaction and are people likely to take them up on. washington the has been growing strained and aspiration of emigration amin hong kong over the past 2 years followed by a series of political and the best and the postman so i knew i liked both games from the u.k. well like simply awful and other and incentive for these but of people who want to move away from home especially those in the middle class the more educated and rational and the family of young children so they had if you like or you like to be like to. watch it the way of life you know fictional

a way of life. but on the other hand we accept the movie. a lot of young people actually those what on up to 9097 we don't have any colonial power when i'm one of them they want to say you know what a fight. with the polarized sentiment here in hong kong but the fact that the. to the new sister ship came from the u.k. would be another option of a home people and more people are now applying we knew the british not you know that be possible and i think. that the polarization the resistance visible on the streets yesterday we know hundreds of people were arrested what is likely to happen today. what things how then could our little bit. be and your best are we rally yesterday and this is what we expect. for the coming few days they are headed to matthew and the iconic protest

on the street protests will cool down a little bit and another reason is that it's simply too risky for people to take to street right now yesterday people how best to put a charge on the national security of fences so. almost out of date they would just light up with nothing and hold a pony penna slogans or like the government slogan today with similar action now going on so i think if it had to be he and people with step back a big and good social and political activism made in the middle east and not a way to proceed in the future. corresponding to becoming in hong kong thank you. when all russians have approved changes to the constitution that allow president vladimir putin to run for 2 more terms in office if you observers have been

surprised by the result of the weeklong vote election officials say that almost 80 percent backed the proposals that were put forward by putin opposition leader alexina vali has slammed the result as quote a huge lie that did not reflect public opinion. president vladimir putin was probably the only person who came to this moscow polling. without a mask it was the last day of the nationwide vote the kremlin even declared a bank holiday so that as many people as possible could take part in the constitutional reform had already been formally approved by the country's national and regional parliament puton turn to a public vote to validate the move the amendments and shrine many popular social changes including regular pension increases and a minimum wage but they'll also allow putin to keep running for president directly he could remain in office till 2036 this man voted no he says i don't need a new tsar. i like it because i'm afraid of change whenever things change in russia

we end up worse off than before you started playing some voters only had to show their passports as proof of identity the election observers were not allowed complete access and well voting was still in progress the 1st results were published with 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. and to no one's surprise official results say the vote was a landslide in putin's favor. and you only share when has been covering the referendum in moscow she told us more about reports of irregularities in the voting process. well the authorities 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 a 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 in the north put it 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. and later when they're in moscow

a quick check of some other stories making news around the world government in mexico have killed 24 people in what is being described as a massacre in the north of the country police said that the attackers burst into a drug rehabilitation center in the city. and shot everyone inside the area is home to rival drug gangs and is currently the most violent in mexico. uganda has temporarily opened its borders to thousands of people fleeing violence in the eastern democratic republic of congo border crossings had stopped because of the pandemic leaving refugees stuck in a remote area the u.n. says that violence in the eastern d r c has displaced over a 1000000 people since january. more than $1000.00 food delivery drivers have protested their pay and working conditions in brazil the drivers rely on mobile phone apps for employment since the pandemic they complain that they are working

more but are being paid less the drivers also want improved health conditions which brazil badly hit by cope with 19. tesla has overtaken toyota to become the world's most valuable car maker the company is worth $207000000000.00 u.s. dollars thanks to a recent share price rally the car giant has long passed us competitors g.m. and ford who have both seen fighting who have both been fighting a slump in sales. well u.s. president donald trump is dismissing allegations that russia offered a bounty to taliban linked fighters to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan he also rejected claims that his administration failed to take seriously intelligence relating to the allegations but the white house is coming under increasing pressure from lawmakers of both parties to provide answers . 3 american marines killed by

a car bomb in afghanistan planted by the taliban the radical islamist group allegedly received a bounty for the april $29000.00 of tax that's according to a report by the new york times which details of money transfer from russian military intelligence services to a bank account linked to the taliban the american secret services have reportedly known about the transfer for months the allegations have set the white house on the defensive did president trump know about the alleged russian bounty as the new york times article suggests. trump hit back at the allegations on twitter claiming that the report was just put up a story concocted by the fake news media an attempt to hurt the republican party. the white house defended trump handling of the issue saying that he couldn't have been told about the intelligence reports point one to be a source or an asset to the president does agree and he also consumes intelligence virtually this president i'll tell you is the most informed person on planet earth

when it comes to the threats that we face right the white house said trump was not informed of the alleged bounty plot because different intelligence agencies had reached different conclusions on the credibility of the information you want nevertheless the information was considered important enough to register according to the u.s. national security adviser we distribute this raw intelligence even though it wasn't verified because we were concerned about it we gave it to u.s. forces and we gave it to kolisch and forces to make sure they could have force protection that means u.s. forces in afghanistan would most likely full blown up a possible russian bounty attack if trump was privy to the information why did he not confront russia with it political analysts say trump's approach to russian president vladimir putin could be characterized as being so if i may be saying his days of doing business in russia could even make trump susceptible to blackmail there must be some financial connection there that is made president scared of

taking any action against labor in resistant to do so and hence oftentimes when the president is interacting with. you it's more like a supplicant like a person who is wanting to keep an investor api as opposed to someone that is standing up for u.s. interests. in presidential candidate joe biden took the opportunity to take a swipe at trump. and so the idea that somehow he didn't know versus being briefed it is a dereliction of duty if that's the case and if he was briefed and nothing was done about this that's a very mature. u.s. marines killed in action by the. the taliban have now become embroiled in the culture of a sea as the presidential election campaign heats up. then with that now you're up to date on day 8 of your news i'm sarah kelly in berlin don't forget there's always

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