this is the w. news live from berlin the international community response to beijing's tightening grip on hong kong taiwan is among the growing list of nations offering to help on call those seeking to leave the territory we asked taiwan's representative to germany about fears that it could be next also coming up the indian government has revamped its strategy aimed at slowing the country's rise in coronavirus pace

number is it having any effect. a landslide hit suggest mine in northern myanmar killing more than 120 miners one of the deadliest disasters to ever hit the industry. plus it's been a cathedral a mosque and the music now istanbul's famous piles of fear is at the center of the political battle that could have implications for the world's 2 largest. i'm going to belfast welcome to the program tensions are rising over hong kong with china threatening reprisals of britain goes ahead and grants residency rights to $3000000.00 eligible on kong as china has faced a groundswell of criticism from mainly western nations over its decision to. poses

sweeping new security law banning acts of subversion police have arrested hundreds of pro-democracy protesters rallying against the new law. a critics fear the new security security law will be used to crush any dissent against chinese rule among those critics is acclaimed hong kong artist casey want who in the past has produced a politically charged that openly critical of beijing warns that what's happening in the city is only a glimpse of what lies in store i feel like i was up one morning and then suddenly it's 2047 i that's the year until western style rule of law and civil liberties for hong kong was supposed to be guaranteed according to a treaty signed by britain and china ahead of hong kong stand either. but it's the 1st of july 2020 and hong kong's protesters are fighting

a lost battle for freedom and the right to gather and against beijing's new security will every protester risks arrest. for those people who has the guts to come out today no i salute them because they already oh you know expect it. the worst nobody at all come on to become like china i'm. celebrating the 1st of july 1997 the day that hong kong officially reverted to chinese suffer until after 156 years of british rule also testing the new security law. everything is peaceful here in this chinese state t.v. broadcast. coheres is also you know we see that the central government is determined to protect the vast majority of law

abiding hong kong citizens from a minority that's trying to undermine national security saw hoyt. but it wasn't a minority that took to the streets it was millions. singing glory to hong kong they protested for weeks and months and issued 5 demands such as a retraction of the new classification of protesters as rioters and an inquiry into alleged police brutality case the one protester to with art and april last year this performance artwork offered a dark premonition of what was to come locked into a cage the performers chant i will not go to china and what has a history of like. for shadow of what is to come to the west so that's why western state western countries should have closed their eyes on the 4th call. today there are far fewer protesters demanding

freedom for hong kong because they are in breach of beijing so called security will . i this police ban estates that every protester who violates the law will be arrested and everyone on the streets knows the risk they're taking. k.c. one dustin. he says he wanted to give this interview because he refuses to give up his right to freedom of expression and stands by the 5 demands. one other place that's closely watching developments in hong kong is taiwan the island bound republic of china has been independent since the chinese revolution in 1015 beijing considered it considers it as a renegade province taiwan has been lobbying for international sanctions against beijing i asked the taiwanese representative here in germany janeway shared if that

was realistic look what the american has done they have sanctions they have put strain on the sections and they are china is confronted with a big problem and if the european countries do have the sense in to get that we see not only we see the trump but also with the u.s. where you see japan australia in short we still want our freedom then chinese the chinese government there ought be confined it would be scared own that's the only way only talking and warning wouldn't have time now for a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today voters in russia approved changes to the constitution that allow president vladimir putin to run for 2 more terms in office officials say almost 80 percent backed the proposal that was put forward by putin himself the kremlin has described the

outcome as a triumph. the u.s. economy added $4800000.00 jobs in june according to the labor department it's the 2nd straight month of gains after companies set a record $20000000.00 jobs in april the survey was completed in mid june however before the current spike in case numbers in the u.s. . germany's foreign minister mass has met his turkish counterpart never heard of the sokol in berlin discussing topics including bringing an end to the syrian war that germany has special ways in international diplomacy right now as it holds the presidency of both the e.u. council and the u.n. security council. at least 80 people have now died in several days of protests in ethiopia following monday's shooting death of a popular aromasin up a little hyundai was regarded as a voice of a generation and he often spoke out against political and economic repression of

his ethnic oromo group today he was laid to rest. an emotional farewell to their hero. fans and relatives of the popular singer chalo joined the salmon in his hometown. the event including traditional a roma horseman were broadcast live on local t.v. . on thursday the streets in the capital at his ababa were empty and tensions high following 2 days of deadly clashes. many here are angry and in disbelief over the death of the singer. i wish i didn't know him i'm heartbroken i channel was not an ordinary individual he was pure if you open pure all romel i'm angry it's eating me up inside me. protests reported in both that is have about and the surrounding region the home of

ethnic group the oromo they say the killing was politically motivated the romo if you o.p.'s biggest ethnic group have for decades accused the authorities of repression and exclusion from power. only thing. chalo a former political prisoner was a prominent voice in the anti-government protests that led to a change in leadership in 2018 the new prime minister ahmed also from the oromo ethnic group has called for calm if there was a church in the woods what our enemies want is for us not to finish the work that we have started that dio romel people before this recent fight are killed that blood is spilled and that the journey that we've started gets derailed is a matter no wounded and. happy came to power with

a mandate to ease tensions in the country however critics say instead his reforms have opened the way for ethnic and other grievances leading to an increase in deadly into communal violence. in india the number of confirmed corona virus infections has now topped 600000 but the government is striking back at critics who say it hasn't done enough to fight the pandemic it has introduced revamped strategy to curb the spread of the virus to w.'s. brings us this report on the worst it's in the capital that. 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 of each and every household to deal with this praed of years. the move has come after weeks of scrambling for measures by both 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 work. so i am a little scared but regard to. earlier we could step out a little at least to buy essential some groceries but now we're worried that if we 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 platinum bank and providing. the government simultaneously is trying to ramp up its health care infrastructure the daily testing for coverage 1000 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

cologne or what is what sports known as containment zones. some to her one of the lead 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 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 their home isolation is not an option. the delhi government has projected that the number of cases in the capital means rise up to possibly 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

u.s. centers essentially an isolation facility it has a capacity of $10000.00 beds most of which are made of prefabricated cardboard material. once opened it will provide the clock medical supervision for mind and moderate cases there is pressure on the general good health care system it is 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 under health care system even though lockdown restrictions have been eased to some extent in delhi 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 it so as the challenge of course. one of ours has now turned into a crisis. report from our correspondent money or charge joins us from delhi right now many are 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 the spike is being attributed to their lactation in the log dongles and regulations so you see that a lot of economic activity. and people are going about their normal work and the 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 hasn't trees 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 as this is the best thing to have a war and work use is being detected but the 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 tests along with many hospitals but you need to be sure of the symptoms that you are going with and we definitely need to have in most cases the doctor's prescription to get access to these tests because the priority right now is to get those people tested who admired falling in the high risk category who have or might be duties or are senior citizens all those washington you don't even centers where there are multiple cases are so in my report the government has over 19 of these deaths in cancer that about a 100 or 200 people are getting tested every day and every in every of these cancers that they can be put on the whole my solution or be difficult to point a sentence when you're out shopping in delhi thank you very much for this up to. authorities in myanmar say at least $100.00 people have died in a landslide at a jade mine it happened after heavy rains hit the up i can't region in the north of

the country burying workers under a wave of mud scores more have been trapped is one of the worst accidents to hit the region in recent years. and more that let's bring in dave brown he's a journalist based in asia who has reported from me for years there are reports that people have been warned because of heavy rainfall was expected what can you tell us. you know even when the weather conditions are great this is still a dangerous business but in this case you know this is the rainy season where storms are common but the thing here is that these people these are desperate poor people desperate for money we should point out that reportedly these were not the people watch you work for the mining companies these are the scavengers who come in after the mining company leaves piles of waste and then these people go through it to see if there's any jay that was left over and sometimes they do find some jay they got missed by the mining companies and get quite a bit of money from out of the cage and so these are the scavengers looking for

that they're desperate they're poor and that's why even poor weather conditions are not going to stop and as long as they can get access to the sites they'll keep doing it out of desperation well be that as it may but this is not the 1st accident in a mine why does it happen so often. yeah i mean a year ago we had more than 50 people die in a mining accident me m.r. about 5 years ago we had more then a 100 and 1st off what it is is that this is a massive industry officially a few years ago me him are estimated at about 1c7x5xw2c7x3c7xw dollars 750000000 dollars but. experts on this have started this and said that it's worth more than $30000000000.00 a year and a mining cut the captains of this industry they have close ties to the military which is the most powerful institution in the country these people there's nothing to really give them the incentive to make it safer particularly for the scavenger there's a lot of money flowing through a lot of hands here with this industry and you know there's nothing been done to

really make it safe for these companies are not under pressure to keep scavengers from getting access to the sites afterwards so there is no incentive for them to do that you said the companies are pretty close to the military very powerful institution of the government doing about. it well when aung sun suu kyi a nobel peace prize winner front won her part of the nasa to democracy came in in 2060. to control the civilian side of government we should make it clear the civilian side has no control over the military but when she came in and control the civilian side her party said they were in a clean this industry up that was more than 4 years ago and little to nothing is actually happened on the ground to make it any safer thank you very much dave green a bomb a journalist based in the asia. a turkish court has been deciding today whether one of its stumbles most iconic buildings should become a mosque again the centuries old high as the fia is

a unesco world heritage site that has been a church a mosque and is not a museum with nationalist groups demanding it be open for islamic prayers critics say it has become a political instrument for president the want. empires have fallen religions have been replaced the city itself has changed names but the dome of the high u.s. afia has withstood it all built in the 6th century as a byzantine church it was for centuries the world's largest christian cathedral almost a millennium later it was converted into an islamic mosque during the autumn an empire but in the 1930 s. it was turned into a museum under the founder of the modern turkish republic ataturk a symbol of the new secular state inclusive of all religions since then it has been a meeting point of many faiths but held by none a place where pope's and presidents have come to pay their respects and marvel at

the architecture. the religion is a tool for president richard type of on he has overseen prayers in the museum and raised its status at local election rallies. i also feel subs over the edge of you know sort of as you know they converted the higher sophia from a mosque to a museum a while ago. now we hope to be able to call it a mosque again after the election. i know this islamic groups have fought to pray at the highest the fia angering neighboring greece which says the building is part of its author docs christian history unesco has warned turkey its conversion to a mosque could violate the world cultural heritage convention. a flashpoint of religious and national struggle whatever his future hires

a fear will remain an icon of istanbul. and standing by in front of the high as a fear itself is simple correspondence with tell us about the importance of this building and what's at stake today with the court's decision. well just standing here right in front of the iosif ia looking at it it really is an architectural mosque a piece with an incredibly interesting history a cultural landmark for both christians and muslims and it attracted a nearly 4000000 visit is last year and these are probably reasons why there is always so much attention especially from abroad whenever there is a debate here in turkey about this building's future and there have been many such debates in the past now today turkey's top administrators chord reviewed another challenge to the i.s.o. fia's museum status it was brought forward by

a turkish association that claims there is a problem with the legality of the 934 document by which it was turned into a museum by turkey state found a most if i came they say there is something wrong with that document it needs to be ruled invalid now as we learned from turkish media reports the court earlier in the morning had a short session and came up with a verdict but they won't announce the verdict today but say they will publish a written statement sometime within the next 15 days now there's a lot of speculation why they don't make their decision public but what i can tell you is for sure this debate surrounding the i guess afia will continue it will go on but let's talk more about the politics of this president is a conservative muslim himself he supports plans to change the status to a mosque why is that important. well you could also argue that already has more than $3000.00 mosques including many representative one

so the city doesn't need another mosque but it's not about this the ioseph is the ultimate symbol of the muslim autumn and conquests of christian constantinople and add one knows that he is known as a politician who uses religious and nationalist symbolism to draw support from his conservative voters why is this issue coming out now many critics say he's trying to divert attention from other pressing issues the coronavirus crisis has hit the turkish economy hard his approval ratings including those of his party's have dropped so the highest sophia from that perspective says it's a somewhat like a political joke a cod add on plays from time to time well if they change the status into international reaction. well that would be hugely controversial it's safe to expect

a lot of criticism from the orthodox church from greece or russia yesterday u.s. secretary of state mike them pale has urged turkey to maintain the museum status here of the fia he called it a place that is considered a bridge between cultures and religion so a transformation of the museum into a mosque would certainly come with a lot of risks especially on the international level it might held help out on domestically for a certain time it might be somewhat like a triumph you domestically but internationally this could turn into a problem for him. thank you. and has some sporting history now and the name you're unlikely to have ever heard jack leslie nearly 100 years ago he should have been england's 1st black footballer on the national squad until recently very few had ever heard of him but i didn't

awareness of racial injustices has forced many organizations including english football to take a close and more critical look at its own history for. the campaign to ana what would have been in unstressed not playing out jackie as he was caught up to the national team in 1925 but it's believed that when members of the f.a. a.p. english football association saw that he was black the invitation was dropped price family exposure is not over due and i just hope that a lot more stories of people you know and how they were treated also come out as a feeling that synonymous with their form of luck i mean anyone is mixed race stuff you know being left out or not picked for example he's it was a great football for him a fog or they picked in the. england it was a bit too much for some less he went on to have a successful career with the english football club plymouth argyle in the 1920 s. and thirty's. now the cup and its fans want to honor his legacy in their set up

a crowd trying to raise around 100000 euros in order to build a statue off him. it's recognition not just that one of the greatest players here would suggest greater sure deterrence for the truck in the credit score a $137.00 girls but it's much more a statement about the scripts attitude to his racism. an attitude that in football isn't moving fast enough it would take another 53 years until good anderson became ill and suppressed black player in 1978 making the story of jack leslie the unheard black trade blazer all the more important in the fight against racism. this is the daily news here's a reminder of the top stories this hour china says a book respond with both corresponding measures if britain goes ahead and grants residency rights to $3000000.00 eligible coniston in the chaos of the safe haven as

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