this is g w news live from berlin tonight in washington d.c. in the u.s. capitol remembering and honoring the civil rights pioneer john lewis. u.s. lawmakers commemorates their late colleague a protege of dr martin luther king jr in the coming days a nation transformed by black winds matter we'll say

a final farewell also coming up tonight the stars and stripes a low board today the u.s. was forced to close its consulate in the chinese city of chengdu a tit for tat response following the shutdown of the chinese mission in houston last week we'll speak to a former u.s. diplomat who was stationed in chengdu and the outbreak on the farm in southern germany a 170 my field workers tested positive for coke at 19 our field workers risking their lives to put vegetables on our tables. i'm good to have you with us and we start tonight with a solemn tribute to a civil rights pioneer lawmakers friends and family have been on a ring the late kong. john lewis inside the u.s.

capitol building and invitation only ceremony has been held on or little inside the rotunda of the capitol he is the 1st african-american congressman to lie in state in the words on representative lewis was widely admired for his champion of civil rights for everyone he died of cancer earlier this month at the age of 80. w's in his poll has been speaking to african-americans about what the congressman meant to them. a culture of coffee is a 100 percent black owned business its mission is to bring all kinds of people to gather as tributes to john lewis coming from across the country customers here share their thoughts about how the civil rights activist has affected their lives. john lewis as a lot of folks know that the conscience of congress knowing that he existed has

made me a better man a bit better father. how could i have been able to impart that to my daughters in part how it's important to stand for something. to be committed. whatever it might be in his case it was for the people civil rights not just with people of all people the recent killing of john troy has brought the fight for equal rights back to the streets like lives matter has become a cuz cry for protests which often turn white to defy it to the war and it's not something that people are trying to peacefully end its war for years now. now now we're fighting. the lincoln memorial the site of many historic events. right here at this very spot john lee spoke in 1963 next to a civil rights icon martin luther king he dedicated his entire life to fight social

and racial inequality in a non violent way his death comes at a time when many americans think that this is not the right response anymore to the ongoing discrimination especially younger protest is have the feeling that they have to take more forceful actions. but congressman lewis always advocated getting into what he called good trouble a political tactic which continues to resonate with many african-americans to me he means the world as a african-american as someone who believes and i think he stood for being nonviolent and just the things that he accomplished on his life time that enables me to do what i do right now everyone is going to miss social injustices so i think this is the right approach peaceful marches and protests this was needed we don't

need to be violent we need be persistent. just keep at it. john lewis himself remained persistent until the end of his life talking to dr bell of 4 years ago he expressed hope that his vision would extend beyond the united states i believe if we can get it right here in america and maybe we can serve as a model for the rest of the world. well u.s. marines have lowered the american flag and u.s. diplomatic staff have left their consulate in these southwestern chinese city of chengdu beijing ordered the closure in retaliation for washington's shutting down of the chinese consulate in houston texas last week u.s. secretary of state might pompei you called the facility a center for spawn once the u.s. consulate this building now stands empty. onlookers gathered to catch

a glimpse of the americans leaving some celebrating their departure. but long live the chinese people sheilds one man the closure of this consulate in chengdu was no surprise that followed the shattering of the chinese consulate in houston texas by the u.s. government last week washington claimed the consulate had become a hub for spying and attempting to steal coronavirus research the chinese foreign ministry denied this and said beijing was not looking for a fight. the current situation of relations between china and the us is unfortunate the u.s. bears the entire responsibility that we urge the u.s. to immediately correct its mistakes and make it possible for bilateral relations to get back on track. nationalist sentiment is running high on both sides yet some of chengdu is resonating we're disheartened by the sudden end of the diplomatic mission. it's a big deal and it's never happened before the consulate has been here for several

decades and i think it's a real pity to see the current state of affairs and out of the ground fire a kind of like. richard you know. the. it's a shame i hope there is no confrontation we should have peace that is the best way to do things the world doesn't need war it needs peace. all eyes are on washington in beijing to see if they will escalate further or look for a truce when jeff moon joins me now jeff is a former u.s. diplomat and trade negotiator one of his diplomatic postings was to the u.s. consulate in chiang it's good to have you on the program i just want to ask you what your take is on what we're seeing here with the closure of the consulate in the following the closure of the mission in houston i mean do you see this is being more than just a tit for tat retaliation. well in a tactical level it is

a tit for tat retaliation but in the larger picture this is a real tragedy this relationship in western china has been built over 35 years since prince the president george bush opened it up in 1985 and yet within a couple days we have torn that relationship apart and it's going to affect the people american and chinese people as well as the governments the chinese people in chengdu they have reason to be sad because they get services from the consulate in the form of visas to go to the u.s. cultural programs people have people exchanges the american community in trying to lose is because they get american citizen services and that's necessary china wants those services because they want to attract american business the governments lose because through consulates the embassy is the place where the state to state negotiations go on through ministries and capitals but the consulates are where the

relationship is really built and promoted and i think china has made a mistake here because china gets much more benefit from its consulates than the u.s. does china have pretty much under federal access to american society and the american diplomats in chengdu are used to confronting a chinese bureaucracy that is dedicated just pacifically limiting their access to chinese society in a very non reciprocal way why do you think so that the chinese authorities what do you think they chose this consulate in chengdu i mean is there something specific about this particular posting that would make it comparable to what we saw in houston. well they had 2 choices they could have closed to hans which is the smallest of the consulates and if they had done that then who would have been closed and used it would have been closed one closure on each side there are cheering some of the consulates in china do is one of the what they call the

secondary cities so it would have been the next level up and certain protocol beyond who han and that's why i think that the american government has interpreted this correctly as an escalation rather than closing just one consul on each side now the chinese just couldn't resist the nationalist urge to respond in this way and i think that as i said i think they're going to regret that were you know it follows the u.s. secretary of state last week saying basically that we should see an end to this policy of engagement that has defined us china relations for nearly half a century so when you're looking at it that way can we say that we're entering a cold war now between china and the united states but we certainly have frosty relations but i don't think we can say that there was a cold war i mean the cold war analogy with the relationship with the soviet union

does not apply here we had no economic interaction between the u.s. and russia for example and yet our relationship with china is very much intertwined and much as the trump administration wants to decouple is extremely hard to do that you know there's a theory going around here in washington that the current trump administration seeing that their election prospects are not good is doing what it can to decouple them to separate the 2 countries is like this prior to the election yes we will see if this decoupling continues after the election jeff we appreciate your insights tonight thank you thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world israel says its soldiers have exchanged fire with hezbollah militants near the country's northern border with lebanon the israeli army says it was preventing several militants from infiltrating israeli territory hizbullah has denied taking part in any clashes saying its forces never intended to

cross the frontier the ukrainian army is accusing russia backed separate is of breaching a ceasefire in the country's east the separatists have deny the claim the truce went into effect at midnight on sunday it was agreed to last week by negotiators from russia ukraine and the international monitoring group the c e o. here in germany officials are scrambling to contain a corona virus outbreak at a farm in bavaria it's the latest in a string of covert 19 eruptions linked to food production here in germany $174.00 workers on the bavarian farm tested positive for coded 19 over the weekend around 3000 people live in the bavarian town of manning and many are now waiting for corona virus tests a farm is under quarantine after 174 migrant workers tested positive for covert 19

. officials are trying to find out how they became infected and if the virus has spread outside the farm there are strict guidelines for businesses employing seasonal staff but various state premier says they were not followed. house officials on the local and regional level say that hygiene inspections work carried out at this farm but there are obviously fim violations which jews and that's why action has to be taken now. he said would tighten its coronavirus rules . even be that businesses will face more frequent hygiene inspections and they'll be carried out by mixed teams from the public health commerce and agricultural departments which of to budge on. the feria will also step up testing of employees and violations of social distancing and hygiene regulations could incur fines of up 225000 euros instead of 5000 before people in my ming are waiting to find out if

the virus has spread from the farm to the town if tests show that has happened they likely face a new lock down. and here's a look at some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic germany is requiring testing at airports for incoming travelers from high risk areas countries on the risk list include the united states brazil russia and turkey vietnam is evacuating 80000 people from the resort of dawn named after dozens of people there tested positive for 19 in the u.s. the world's biggest vaccine study has begun 30000 people have begun receiving experimental injections half are placebos the other half are the vaccine and spanish prime minister petros haunches has criticised britain's decision to require quarantine for travelers returning from spain the move threatens to deal with a big blow to spain's struggling tourism industry. this is needed. news from berlin

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