this is d.w. news live from berkeley and tensions escalate between washington and beijing u.s. officials enter the chinese consulate in houston texas after forcing it to close amid accusations of espionage china retaliates shutting down an american consulate in the western city of chengdu also coming out thousands demonstrate in budapest for media freedom after dozens of journalists of hungry man news site resigned in protest at the sacking of their editor in chief.

i'm rebecca read his welcome to the program u.s. officials have entered the chinese consulate in houston texas after diplomatic stuff they complied with an order from the trumpet ministration to shut down the u.s. says the consulate was a hub for espionage and intellectual property theft china denies the accusations and has retaliated by ordering the american consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu to close the spat has brought already tense relations between the 2 countries to their lowest point in decades. ahead exit in houston. chinese officials who seem packing on friday they were forced to evacuate the consulate within 72 hours a deadline set. by the trumpet ministration. pulling documents into vehicles the

exit was welcomed by anti communist party protest is. this a cell or cell phone your phone i usually try to monitor everyone is a bank a meeting that's the reason you come here to watch. your celebrating the i make sure. the u.s. says the consulate was a nest of spies trying to steal intellectual property including data from medical facilities in texas after the last diplomats departed the area was cordoned off and u.s. officials were seen forcing entry into the building. in a tit for tat move china has ordered the closure of the u.s. consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu. china's foreign ministry called the retaliation legitimate and necessary accusing u.s. stuff is of interfering in the country's internal affairs villager the current

situation in china u.s. relations just not what china wants and the u.s. is completely responsible for all of this. the cold war era style tension between the 2 countries has been rising for some time often sparring over trade technology and more recently the coronavirus. usually very outspoken on china the us president has yet to comment on this latest escalation. thousands of protesters have marched through central budapest in support of journalists and hungary's most read news site index thousands of journalists have now resigned over the sacking of its editor in chief earlier this week his dismissal has raised concern that prime minister viktor or bands nationalist government is intensifying its efforts to muzzle critical voices. the new site trusted by millions of

hungary and is no more so thousands march to the prime minister's office with this message. that we are together we believe in free press. we've reached a point now where getting access to real information is in real danger as well as its very existence. in court about the overall you do she. honestly regardless of the website the reason why i came to demonstrate is that another independent news reporter has fallen victim to the government but i really don't like that and that's why i came i don't think there's any free press left. for the protests followed an early a walkout on friday when more than 80 journalists the vast majority of the newsroom quit index. to take a 1st step just in. our editor in chief was fired this week and while i don't want

to speak on behalf of all of us for me this was the red line i cannot work there anymore. from the point it put out of the phone. before he got sacked editor in chief several it stalled had warned the site was in grave danger after a pro businessman purchase control of the site's ad sales hungary's foreign sex trade denies the government poses a threat to press freedom michael tell me a concrete case when could it journalists in hungary or not write what they thought . index is just the latest of several hunger area news outlets to fall under control of government allies raising fears here that it won't be the last. 3. and for more on this i'm joined by journalist justin spike in budapest justin thousands of people taking to the streets to show their support for the press more

than 80 journalists from index walked out and we sing a tipping point in hungary. thank you for having me so what's happening now with the index is particularly significant because as you mentioned the index was the biggest and the most popular independent news outlet in the country the firing of its editor in chief was really the red line for many of these journalists because it represented such a major force in bringing credible and objective information to the people of hungary in an environment where the media is being continually shrank in the country via purchased by government from the business people and these kinds of interventions so the protests that we saw i think shows that there is still a lot of support in a lot of hunger were credible and independent news reported in hungary but i

think it surprised a lot of people that index was moved upon and in such a quick manner it surprised me as well what does this do to the media landscape in hungary and how independent is the media then now. so as the foreign minister mentioned in your previous. journalists can write what they want there's not there's not censorship be internet. but but the environment is being continually whittled away so what happened next recently is almost a current of what happened to the previously largest and most popular news website which is called the same thing happened in 2014 this many close to the government got close to that website in fact the same businessman who bought himself into and that's just really your and then the editor in chief was fired and then there were mass walkouts so there are still

a number and outlets available in hungary i happen to be a contributor to one of them they're mostly all on the internet but the point is that the it's highly unbalanced a couple of years ago there was a foundation which which was created which subsumed basically around 500 different media outlets and print news. radio etc all across different mediums and and that is. which 'd is controlled directly by the government and later. a matter of national interest so you have this hand over the pen and sites on one hand but then you have this 'd massive empire essentially you know from the other yes certainly into tyria ration just in spike in put it past thanks very much general foreign teas and now offering free coronavirus testing to incoming travel

is on the spot testing will be available for people coming from covert 9000 hotspots people traveling back from lower risk areas will also be offered tests but at lavar trees away from airports it's part of an effort to avoid a 2nd wave of infections. touched down in berlin after a summer holiday far fewer germans the normal yet taking their vacations abroad the joy of returning home is as strong as ever but can people be sure they haven't picked up the coronavirus on their travels. now their health or thor it is in germany have taken the decision to offer free virus testing. the amber to its because i'm tied to the health ministers of the states together with the federal health minister have today agreed that people returning from risk areas should be tested at airports. we intend to establish testing facilities at relevant airports. secondly we have decided that we want to reach not only those from risk

areas but also those coming from elsewhere so we agreed to pay the costs of the testing for travelers this. isn't in frankfurt germany is largest airport is already offering tests for a free under the new plan people arriving from the 130 countries seen as at risk can be tested directly on arrival checks will also be beefed up at sea ports and on land borders the tests will be voluntary at 1st and people from corona affected areas will continue to be arsed to quarantine at home for 14 days. germans love to travel and those starting to get the travel bug again but with these tourists arriving from the popular spanish island of new york and be willing to take a test because he has certainly personal safety reasons that would be the most important thing. we think sean i think so. if you had to go into quarantine.

and i'll have to go for months i wouldn't really want to people have responsibility for themselves and people are very careful about their behavior. and corona infection rates in germany remain low at the moment a big part of keeping it that way after the holiday season will be persuading travelers to take advantage of testing. the u.n. is warning that a rusting oil tanker in the red sea is threatening to become an environmental disaster a 45 year old vessel is stocked with more than a 1000000000 sorry a 1000000 barrels of crude oil and is floating off the coast of yemen the ship is deteriorating and experts are warning of a potentially catastrophic oil spill yemen's ongoing civil war is complicating efforts to extract the oil from the ship. a cruellest ship with explosive cargo is

docked off the coast of yemen this is the only current image of the ailing tanker at any moment it could fall apart potentially spilling $1200000.00 barrels of oil into the red sea. that would cause a natural disaster according to u.n. coordinator lisa grande and it would destroy the fishing capacity in the casino. and we know that it reduces. the environment of the roads something. many years. f. as so safe or has not been properly maintained since the beginning of the war in yemen 5 years ago the cables and valves are rusted and the tanker is leaking for the past 2 years the united nations has asked for a team of experts to be allowed to go on board but permission from the warring parties is pending they are arguing over who gets the profits after the oil on board is sold the north of yemen is controlled by the who the rebels and this

tanker lies within the region they control the oil minister blames an alliance led by saudi arabia for the blockade of the mouth of the how do you know if our maintenance teams attempt to reach the tanker fighter jets will fly over them and attack that's a big problem. an oil spill would also wash up on the shores of who died in a port which is the lifeline for millions of people in northern yemen who are suffering hardship and hunger and are in urgent need of aid a big surprise in store for a group of reindeer herd is in siberia as i discovered the remains of an ancient mammoth russian scientists are now working to retrieve the rest of the skeleton which appears to be remarkably well preserved. constantine teddy bay hadn't expected this he set out to catch fish but instead the fisherman on the peninsula in syberia put something quite different out there so i was tugging on

a skull the whole day from morning till evening then i started poking around in the ground with the stick and i saw more bones. these bones turned out to be quite a sensation they were the remains of a woolly mammoth this species has been largely extinct for over 10000 years the mammoths were larger than today's elephants and weighed up to 5 tonnes researchers were quickly called in and recovered several more bones pieces of a prehistoric puzzle for more than a decade no one in this region has discovered such a well preserved mammoth all of what somebody we don't even know yet what else is in the water there are definitely more remains but we're not yet sure whether it's an entire or partial skeleton. in the next few days scientists plan to bring special tools to this remote region in the north of russia they hope that in the mud at the bottom of the lake they will find more mammoth remains.

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