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this is the w. news live from berlin china warns britain as tensions grow while the hong kong london says it will grant citizenship rights to 3000000 home kaunas living under a sweeping new security law and beijing threatens to retell it also coming up the indian government has we've vamps its approach to slow the dramatic rise in corona virus cases government there's no art you know short of what we know about what benoit will call it so i'm a little scared but we got a little. less the number of confront infections passes 600000 is the strategy
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having any effect. i'm going to if as well come to the program tensions are rising over hong kong china says it will respond with quote corresponding measures if britain goes ahead and grants residency rights to $3000000.00 eligible hong kong as u.k. off the safe haven us hong kong police arrested hundreds of pro-democracy protesters rallying against a sweeping new security law. hong kong activists say their freedoms are being eroded however beijing says the law is necessary for the city to prosper and that many countries welcomed this. deal with on behalf of the $53.00 countries cuba
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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 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. governor. very. starting a new cold war with just making abs clear 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 a country that could make citizenship possible vision of this national security law
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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 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 heiko moscow has called developments in hong kong exceptionally worrying. these protest is a worry too but they've pledged to try as hard as they can to keep their voices heard. there has been a growing strained and afro-asian of emigration in hong kong over the past few
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years following political unrest and postman the latest so called life both came from the u.k. office and i don't intend to for people who want to piss off that original way of life abroad especially the middle class educated professionals and families but young children some activists will see themselves on the high risk may also follow suit as a precaution but all the other hand of the way up so the mood in hong kong but a lot of young people are still determined to stay here for the fight but because of the those were born often i can 97 what the british national overseas cost to france and i'm here next and complicated but no matter what the decisions are at the moment the citizenship plan is a possible exit for neil we hop off the population here in hong kong. reporting that now to some of the other news stories making headlines at this moment authorities in myanmar say at least 100 people have died in the landslide of the j. mine it happened after heavy rains buried workers under
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a wave of mud schools more have been trapped it's one of the worst accidents to hit the hub i can't region in recent years. voters in russia have approved changes to the constitution that allow president vladimir putin. run for 2 more terms in office election officials say almost 80 percent backed the proposal that were put forward by putin himself the kremlin has described the outcome as a trial. a course in turkey has delayed announcing its decision on whether the iconic hires afia in istanbul can be converted from a museum back into a mosque a 1500 year old unesco world heritage site was originally a christian basilica there's concern that it's conversion back into a mosque could so division. in india the number of confirmed corona virus infections has now topped 600000 but the government is striking back at
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critics who say it hasn't done enough to fight the pandemic it has introduced a revamped strategy to curb the spread of the virus and use money or a child really brings us this report from the worst hit city the capital dili. a massive door to do so the exercise has been launched in delhi for its entire population of about 20000000 residents. the state government is aiming to record the health details of each and every household to deal with the spread of. the move has come after weeks of scrambling for measures by the state and the national government to avoid a major health care disaster in the capital city which has now become the worst hit in the country even the government is nor you know short of war. so i'm a little scared but regard to who. earlier we could step out a little at least to buy essential some groceries but now we're worried that if we
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step out at all we may get infected as part of its strategy to handle the spread of the delhi government is taking a range of measures they include increased testing and contact tracing antibody testing developing a plus one bank and providing. the government simultaneously is trying to ramp up its health care infrastructure the daily testing for core with 19 has increased significantly. the state government says that it is now conducting $20000.00 tests every day apart from plans to stock rapid and dejan testing which allows for foster diagnosis of samples regular testing camps are also being set up especially in corona virus hotspots known as containment zones. something the higher one of delhi's largest and most crowded informal settlements has several containment zones the new testing camps there have already started making a difference. 15 during the past week testing has increased many positive cases are
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getting detected earlier the testing wasn't so regular now it's daily some $200.00 people are tested at each camp you're dealing anybody testing positive is immediately taken to makeshift quarantined centers crucial for those where home isolation is not an option. the delhi government has projected that the number of cases in the capital may rise up to half a 1000000 by the end of july. to handle such a case load some specious venues in the city are also being converted into covert care facilities. this is being prepared to become one of the world's largest public dissenters essentially an isolation facility it has a capacity of $10000.00 beds most of which are made of prefabricated cardboard material. once open it will provide down the clock medical supervision for mines and moderate cases there is pressure on the general good health care system it is
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a new day the is one that we were not fully equipped to deal with when it began and it became a pandemic and we have to supplement that and health care system even the lock down restrictions have been eased to some extent in danny there is still much confusion and anxiety amongst its residents as the capital continues to formulate and implement new strategies it has a tough task ahead of itself as the challenge of course. one of ours has now turned into a crisis. about a report from our correspondent money or child joins us from delhi right now many way you looked in your report the measures taken by the government to contain the virus yet we are seeing a spike in daily cases have those measures not worked well a big reason despite being attribute it to their lack solution and the logged on jewels and nations so you see that a lot of economic activity. and people are going about their normal work and the
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streets are full of people actually going to delhi being a very densely populated city this kind of trance and this kind of transmission once the lockdown was relaxed and it was natural also one other thing to think about that is that the number is actually being increased so the number of testing has increased delhi is one city which is now doing about $20000.00 deaths per day and which is much more than a lot of other cities were doing about 7 or 6000 this is the best thing having 3 of us in war and work use is being detected but task testing has been ramped up massively are those tests easily accessible for everyone when over the past you receive many more level actually you have been allowed to conduct these steps along with many hospitals but you need to be sure of the symptoms that you are going with and you definitely need to have in most cases the doctor's prescription to get access to these tests because the patentee right now is to get all people tested
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who admired falling into high risk category who have a form of the duties or are seen as sort of those oddballs washington and don't even centers where there are multiple cases are so in my report the government is old and i think the depth in cancer that about 100 or 200 people are getting tested every day in every in every of these cancer that they can be put on the whole my solution or be taken to quarantine centers when you're out shopping in delhi thank you very much for this up to. motor racing now the formula one season is finally getting under way this weekend in austria with teams starting their preparations today the season was meant to begin in march but the coronavirus pandemic prompted a major delay teams are getting used to new hygiene rules and the novelty of racing at the same track for 2 straight weeks. look picturesque karma spielberg and austria will be punctuated by the roar of engines this weekend when formula one makes
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a belated start of the season but the usual roar of the fans will be missing with the coronavirus pandemic meaning spectators are not allowed. team members will have to wear masks of social distancing not always possible. it's certainly different seeing everybody working in face masks you lose the expressions that you sometimes concrete either elation or despair in a mechanic or engineers phrase but i think it's something that will get used to it's important for the safety of you know of our team of everybody around us in formula one so i think it's a discipline that will get used to very quickly the number of personnel at the track has been kept with f one also trying to cut costs amid the global crisis with an eye on a more sustainable future there are new arrangements for pit stops to some teams have been busy practicing at silverstone in britain which like spielberg will host 2 back to back race weekends f one is cramming in 8 european wrong pre-buy early
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september and wants to add more elsewhere in the world the sport hopes using a track twice will limit the risk of infection but it is a new challenge for the drivers while i have no experience heading back to the same track just the week after and having a 2nd race but i've been around for a while i guess you know the level of perfection will be even higher the 2nd week and the level of errors you know will be even smaller so i think we need to make sure that we learn as much as we can a lot has happened since fettle ferarri team launched their 2020 car in february they announced in may that the german 4 time champion would be leaving at the end of the year struggling fettle could not come close to last season's champion luke. sam walton who can match michael schumacher record of 7 titles with another triumph this year the britain has spent much of the build up trying to modernize f one in
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the era of black lives matter his mercedes team will run an all black car they season austria is the venue as formula one enters a whole new world. and football now record european champions real madrid will finally have their own female team next season previously agreed to by a local women's club in the spanish capital and they have now been given the go ahead to rebrand the team as a realm a druid along with germany's but was a dog month the spanish giants were the only major european men's club without a female team. this is the w. news here's a reminder of our top story at this hour china says it will respond with quote corresponding measures if britain goes ahead and grants residency rights to $3000000.00 eligible hong kong as the u.k. of the safe haven from hong police arrested hundreds of pro-democracy protesters rallied against a sweeping new security law. and that's it for me and the news team don't forget
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