this is c w news live from berlin the international community response to beijing's tightening grip on hong kong to britain raises the stakes and offers citizenship to millions of people in his former colony to find out what germany plans to do in response to china's controversial new security rules for hong kong also coming up. coronavirus . migration and mall german chancellor angela merkel has won her stop challenges on the plate as her country takes over the e.u. presidency we'll find out how she's planning to tackle them. and danger

and distrust in rio's favelas as current affairs cases skyrocket amid reports infections you are being severely under reported by the government people in the slums and now counting cases themselves. thank you for joining us britain has pledged to allow up to 3000000 people from hong kong to live in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson made the offer after beijing imposed a controversial national security law on hong kong a former british colony it outlaws public displays of pro independence sentiment with potential life sentences for a fantasy the measures have gone international condemnation. although you know the attention. in hong kong on the rise one day after beijing implemented its

controversial security law the civil liberties hong kong this had been promised and to 2047 gone london says beijing is guilty of what is described as a clear and serious violation of a treaty that paved the way for home content over from britain to china in 1970 and close to 3000000 hong kong residents have been promised a pathway to british citizenship basis for our international relations we make clear mr speaker that if trying to continue down this path we would reach introduce a new route for those with british nationals overseas status to enter the u.k. granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the u.k. and they're off to to apply for citizenship and that is precisely what we will do to us truly a as contemplating a similar move. we are considering very actively in their proposals. to

be brought forward several weeks ago and the following touch is a being. considered by cabinet to provide similar opportunities and we think that's important and very consistent with who we are as a people. beijing is demanding both britain and australia stop interfering in what it calls its own internal affairs it also accused london of violating pasta agreements the chinese embassy and the 4 hong kong was returned to china the united kingdom clearly promised it would not grant united kingdom residency rights to british nationals overseas travel document holders in total disregard of china's solemn position the u.k. has obstinately changed its position and is now offering a route for residency and citizenship for these people to. beijing maintains that the passing of the new security law was necessary to prevent the rep. titian of violent protests that paralyzed hong kong for months but few on

the streets of hong kong buy into that narrative some already say they are ready to accept britain's offer to move there if possible that i do think it could really provide me an opportunity to settle in the u.k. that i don't necessarily have to stay in hong kong or dialog gives us one more way out which i still love him very much but our reapply for the british mission overseas passport 1st and decide whether to stay on leave after the details a confirmed. but not everyone is eligible to apply for citizenship some people we have to stay in home calm and learn to live with the new reality. one that the place that's closely watching developments in hong kong is taiwan officially known as the republic of china it's been independent since 1950 that it's a year off to the chinese revolution both the communist party to power in beijing now china considers taiwan

a renegade province while taiwan has been lobbying for international sanctions against beijing now we asked the taiwanese representative engine many if that was realistic. look what the american history on they have sanctioned they have put strain on their sections and they are trying now is confront it was a big problem and if the european countries do the same soon to get that we see not only the trump but also with the us we use japan elsewhere in europe in short we still want all freedom then chinese the chinese government there ought be confined that would be scared only that's the only way only talking and warning won't help so how is germany planning to respond to beijing's actions neither has the put that question to nels annan he's a diplomat and member of the social democrats who are in

a governing coalition but chancellor merkel's conservatives. minister of state the autonomy in hong kong basically ended yesterday is the german government simply going to put up with this fact we are very concerned as minister mas yesterday said in an address to the german bundestag and i also want to make it very clear that we have to clear expectation that guarantees that have been given to the international community but also to the people of hong kong must be on it and what we are seeing right now with the new law that has been signed by president xi is also putting in question guarantees that the chinese government made to the international community and also how dedicated they are still in terms of the principle of one country 2 systems so it's a serious matter and we are treating this as a serious matter but what is the german government actually going to do well 1st of all i'm very happy that we have clear statements coming from the senior leaders

from the european union and we are joining in expressing our opposition to that law so we will continue to work with all member states with our partners to have a unified european position that is necessary because they believe otherwise. also in the long term it will not be hard to beijing and that's what we are working on the opposition parties here in germany are calling for a cancellation of the e.u. china summit is it actually a good idea for europe to sit around a table with china at a time when beijing is undermining its international obligations producing a slogan producing line doesn't equal doing politics and i believe what we need to do is 2 things we need to unite the european countries china that has not always been the case as we all pretty much know but we also need to talk with the chinese ship we are in a very international situation right now there are many things that needs to be

addressed and the german government has always been able in. it's relationship with the chinese leadership not only to talk about economic relations which is and remains important but also about human rights how realistic is it that the german government will actually succeed in getting europe to speak with one voice when it comes to china given that there are initiatives like this 16 plus one including some e.u. member states and germany that can go to beijing and will be received by the trying to sleep that is not always the case for smaller membership members of the european union so strengthening you cream cohesion also offering those colleagues the ability to have face time with chinese students is extremely important and that's another reason to have the summit and leipsic been organized. minister of state thank you very much thank you. now to some of the stories making news around the world 1st as in russia have approved changes to the constitution that allow

president vladimir putin to run for 2 more terms in office officials say almost 80 percent backs the proposals that were put forward by mr putin himself an independent monitoring group say if the vote was. germany's foreign minister has made his turkish counterpart. in berlin discussing topics including bringing an end to the syrian war germany has a special place in international diplomacy right now as it holds the presidency of both the e.u. council and the u.n. security council. the ex-girlfriend of the late geoffrey epstein get laid back has been arrested in the u.s. on charges she helped under aged girls who were then 16 the abused by epstein a wealthy financier if seed was awaiting trial on charges of trafficking minus when he was found dead in a jail cell from an apparent suicide. well in man must say at

least $100.00 people have died in a landslide at a jade mine it happened off the heavy rains hit the whole back onto region in the north of the country bearing people and though a wave of med schools more has been trapped it's one of the worst accidents to hit the region in recent years. we spoke to correspondent david greene about who's lived in myanmar for years we asked him why warnings of heavy rains were not heeded. even when the weather conditions are great this is still a dangerous business but in this case you know this is a rainy season where storms are common but the thing here is that these people these are desperate for people desperate for money we should point out that totally these were not the people actually 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 energy aid that was left over and sometimes they do find some j. they got missed by the mining companies and get quite

a bit of money from out of occasion so these are the scavengers looking up for that they're desperate they're poor and that's why even poor weather conditions are not going to stop them as long as they can get access to the sites they'll keep doing it out of desperation. that's correspondent dave bomb on the deadly landslide at that my in myanmar. now any of this yet again a magical call the coronavirus pandemic the biggest challenge the e.u. has if a faced now the country has begun its 6 month holding to of the e.u.'s rotating presidency it's a chance for germany to help lead the year old europe of the crisis and tackle a host of other challenges facing the bloc. richard walker reports now from brussels. brussels is coming back to life with the lockdown easing people are returning to the city's bars and cafes on the down side brussels busy roads are getting choked up again but most importantly here in europe's capital city the

european union is swinging back into action this is the european council it's the body that represents all 27 countries that are members of the e.u. get toasty when you put that summits between you ladies every 6 months a different country takes on a key role in a rotating presidency now it's germany's turn this is where it all happens the e.u. council chamber where the summits take place at least where they usually take place this chamber hasn't seen much action at all in the last couple of months during the coronavirus pandemic all of the summits took place by video conference but the plan is for this all to be back in action very soon for the 1st summit with germany in the hot seat that means angle americal has a long and daunting to do list we're going to look at the top 2 items on it. number one is kick starting the economy after years of steady growth europe's

economic numbers of fallen off a cliff pushed over by the pandemic and the lockdown analysts. has been studying europe's response a plan for a recovery fund that merkel is pushing hard for their idea is really to put together a fund of 750000000000 euros to make sure that europe recovers from this crisis it will mean some countries having to dig deep to help others the e.u. thinks spain italy and greece will suffer the most which brings us to challenge number 2 bricks it britain's prime minister boris johnson insists he wants to finish the brics process at the end of this year that means a huge rush to work out a trade deal crucial for business on both sides germany has a big stake in this but there are doubts whether britain's hardline government really wants a deal it's about the political well it's not so much about certain policy areas it's really about having

a common approach and what you see at the moment is unfortunately no willingness especially on the u.k. side to find a deal beyond those top 2 challenges relations with china problems with migration digital transformation and climate change are also major issues facing europe this year but our guest says setting priorities will be key i think we need to lower the expectations concerning the german council presidency because the task ahead i huge i think it would be a success if germany already manages to have an agreement on the recovery front that is good and finally if it manages to find a brecht's a degree meant then it would be extremely successful so germany has plenty on its plate in the next 6 months and a lot is riding on help reforms so watch this space. and richard walker who's filed that report that you've just seen joins me now from brussels hello richard so i'm going to machall has just been talking to the press

about her agenda what did she say. that's right she was speaking just after holding a video conference with the european commission here in brussels that's the body that's sort of like the europe the e.u. use executive and talking through everything that they need to do and afterwards she was really stressing that message that you just mentioned earlier of just how serious the situation facing europe is saying that it is in the most risky and dangerous situation that it has been in its history since the european union was founded. and really saying that europe has to come together over getting that recovery fund that we saw mentioned in the report going and the crunch time for that was going to be the middle of july there's going to be a 2 day summit in the chamber that we just saw in the report there where i'm going to merkel you can expect her to be knocking heads together trying to get agreement on that here and to staying on going to medical richard she's working with a close ally in brussels tell us more about that. that's right she certainly is

also taking part in the press conference to surlier was fondling she is the president of the european commission and interesting thing about her is just a few months ago uncle merkel was her boss was found alive and used to be a senior minister in the german in the german government so these 2 women know each other really well and that means a lot of these issues they can work much more quickly and effectively together than perhaps 2 people who didn't know each other so well but they will be wary of coming across as too cozy and appearing like a kind of national german government within europe so i think they're also very important to rankle merkel is working closely with emmanuel markov france the french president and she has been doing that in the last couple of months in advance of taking on this german presidency to show that france and germany the 2 biggest powers in europe are closely aligned ok thank you richard that's richard

walker chief international it is in brussels now to the favelas of rio de janeiro in brazil where corona virus infection rates have jumped dramatically there is concern that the government there is stress tickly and the reporting caught that $1000.00 cases so much so that the residents have taken it upon themselves to do the counting. nothing is the same since the pandemic killed rio de janeiro's 5 ehlers adults are out of work children are home from school and cramped unhygenic living conditions greatly increased the risk of infection. i'm scared my children will catch the virus we don't always have running water most of the time we have to haul it from far away and the children don't have any space to play. experts estimate the number of unreported infections in the fellows to be extremely high that's why

local residents have started counting the cases themselves. many of those who died from corona virus in our full bellies didn't show up in the health authority statistics we know several examples in our circle of friends. volunteers go door to door and record new cases not included in official data. there are several cases of the virus here. some survive some don't. with the help of local residents volunteers are creating a log of cases in the bore real neighborhood they use whatsapp to collect data on the latest infections not registered by local authorities. this state has been completely absent here ever since the fellows were built in rio we always have to reinvent ourselves and find new ways to survive. brazilian president job also naro who still refuses to wear a face mask has consistently played down the danger the virus poses he has been

heavily criticized for repeatedly manipulating the number of covert related deaths . the old fashioned counting method and transparency must be maintained you can't whitewash the figures. the exact number of corona infections in brazil is not known too little testing is being carried out leandra nevus had typical covert 900 symptoms but was never tested me. i left our neighborhood so i wouldn't infect anyone. so i slept on the beach at in yuma for a week and a half and thought about my neighbors the whole time. it's social status in brazil that appears to dictate whether someone is officially infected or not the real numbers tell a very different story. now and lines have been given a reprieve from regular that would have required them to know that they have called

an emissions the united nations body overseeing aviation has changed the terms of its call been productions citing the economic downturn from the coronavirus this scheme would have required airlines to cut emissions or pay penalties but after pressure from the industry which is the international civil aviation organization filed to change the way productions are measured the body said it would be unfair to nine's to base the redactions on this year's figure is a traffic had already declined. now the decision has outraged green groups which say the airline carbon reduction scheme was already weak to begin with. has been following the story for us good to see you so what is behind this decision at a given alliance a break well air travel has already reduced by hof this year compared to last year according to some estimates now one of these regulations due to be introduced by the un aviation watchdog airlines were supposed to start paying for their offsets

for their carbon emissions starting next year now of course it's been a very unusual year so the united nations has decided to change the way it calculates the level from which they are going to have to reduce those carbon emissions instead of calculating them based on this year and last year they're only going to use 2900 numbers instead and that means airlines are effectively allowed to emit more now some might say fair enough this is a very strange year and why count these numbers are green groups say that this particular carbon reduction scheme already gave airlines a free pass for several years they say we should have waited to see the full impact of this particular crisis on the aviation industry which is getting big government bailouts in some cases and they also say that airlines are now less incentivized to introduce green technologies such as a lower missing fuel right now i spoke to jo darter nate from transport and environment that's a green lobby group and he is their reaction to this decision. the decision taken

this week by i.q. is basically giving as an other free pass to pollute and it is through the drilling climate action for aviation this scheme was already going to have very little impact because it's it doesn't include an actual reduction target in the scheme so airlines would just continue to pollute so long as they would pay someone else to reduce their emissions and it's like if you're on a a diet and you're actually paying someone else to go to the gym for you and doing the heavy lifting by changing this baseline airlines will most likely not have to pay any offsets for the pilot fees until 2025 so we're going from a cheap off sick offsetting scheme to actually no scheme at all. ok so we also heard from the airline industry association which says that this was a pragmatic decision that it maintains the spirit of the original scheme and they say that they are still maintain they still are committed to reducing their carbon

emissions in the long run occasional environmental activist they were hoping for green but covering right around all from the current vice what is actually happening where you remember a few months ago we saw those amazing images of the the blue can owls of venice and the skies clear over delhi it's a dolphin of the city that's right well look things are actually starting to change now carbon emissions are starting to rebound and we can see that because the economies are starting to ramp up again as they come out of lockdown we've got some figures that illustrate that the cobb group carbon brief has found that c o 2 emissions from china have started to rebound an organ fact rising above 2019 levels so you can see that here the blue line is 2019 the red line is 2020 that's already going above it this as the economy starts to rebound there and the headlines that we've been reading are also changing very quickly but back in april we were being told coronavirus to cause the largest ever annual fall in carbon

emission. yes and that's true however things are starting to change now we're hearing that carbon emissions are rebounding sharply as countries lift their coronavirus restrictions now green groups say that it's still not too late that we can still use this chance to enact even deeper more meaningful change instead of giving industries a break we should give the environment a break intrastate and of course that that recovery that we were all seeing in the beginning rises and short lived from what you're saying jill yeah ok thank you for that that's a reporter jill dougherty thanks for that. sporting history now and the name and likely have heard off. 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 heightened awareness of racial injustice has forced many organizations in 30 english football to take a closer and more critical look at its history. a campaign to honor what would have

been england's 1st black player jacket as he was caught up to the national team in 1025 but it's believed that when members of the f.a. a.p. english football association saw that he was blocked the invitation was dropped 1st family the exposure is not over do it 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 every one of the black community and anyone is mixed race up feeling of being left out or not picked for example he's it was a great footballer from the fog or they picked on that but then again it was a bit too much for some less he went on to have a successful career with english football club plymouth argyle in the 1920 s. and thirty's. now the cup and its fans want to honor his legacy and their set up a crowd fund to raise around $100000.00 euros in order to build a statue off him. this recognition not just of one of the

greatest players you know obviously jack plate or the $400.00 terms for the truck in the credit score $137.00 goes but it's much more a statement about the club's club's attitude towards racism. an attitude that in football isn't moving fast enough it would take another 53 years until good anderson became england's 1st black player in 1978 making the story of jack as he the unheard black tree blazer all the more important in the fight against racism. this is the news here's a reminder of the top story of the sala china say as it will respond with all responding measures if britain goes ahead and cross residency rights to $3000000.00 eligible hong kong as the u.k. offered the safe haven as hong kong police a race of 100 democracy protesters rallying against a sweeping new security all. up to date that's it for me and then

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