consumed forests and entire residential areas. raising temperature water shortages and clearance there's a bunch of flammable material once again. there's. going. to be concentration the world on fire starts august 12th. this is the news coming up joy not cranks up the pressure on hong kong's pro-democracy movement. media tycoon and prominent voice for democracy jimmy was arrested along with others under the new security law is beijing sending a message to other of pro-democracy campaigner. joshua wong and he says i'm not

sure when i will be arrested. by the chinese and we all worry about the threats that we need to face and all coming through. the full interview. and crux in distress thousands of the joint face starvation. in india as a corner of august keeps paying visitors the way. i'm british manager welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us police in hong kong have arrested prominent pro-democracy figure and media tycoon jimmy lie under provisions of a newly implemented security knoll and aide to said he had been charged with allegedly colluding with foreign powers police arrested life from his home also searching the offices. of his daily newspaper 8 others have also been held in the

past line has been critical of the chinese government's actions in hong kong and is the most high profile person to be arrested under the new security law which came into force on the 30th of june if convicted he could be facing a maximum of life in prison. joining me now from hong kong is pro-democracy activist and the former secretary general of the political party demos you store joshua wang joshua welcome what is your reaction to the arrest of jimmy lie. the frets of aging which is hops for us to guarantee our personal safety and what the dollar and the muscle rest condo with the national secretary legislation which just proved how that shouldn't be fact is being used to silence up with what's. what is the message of beijing is trying to deliver to the pro-democracy movement in hong kong with such a high profile arrest. we have no intention to have any

collusion with a foreign force with never call on a stench that is after nationalist implement it but now beijing just provided these leaders up again and just try to generate more and more excuse to silence a wise and to crack dollar the protests but no matter what happened when just urging beijing to hold the ability to stop the erosion of you know 1st where you including press freedom and also free election all we fight for but just how successful are you all being really in your terms i mean you as a candidate have been barred from standing in these elections which themselves have now been forced born is it having any impact on beijing. fête include us says or us out from the moccasin movement they can't kick us out from the office they can censor us out from bailouts but they got this call thought our company going to

fight for freedom and calling you to engage in the movement. you are committed to engaging with the democracy movement when speaking about the democratic processes in hong kong they have been forced foreigner to use for you when it comes to the legislative council elections the government said it was because of the koran no matter spend make do you believe the government. i believe this no. you know you expect the election will still continue instead of saying they try to postpone the election now if they hope they try to cancel the whole election at all but do you but. do you believe their reasoning that it's because of the koran or how to spend them and therefore it was unsafe to hold these elections. with the frets and the wrists generated by the forty's which is hard for us to. ensure everything but i think i was hired for the world to put hong kong under the global

spotlight but hong kong in a way is being put under the global spotlight i mean you have sanctions that have been imposed from the united states against catalan for instance and some other officials do you think that support is working for the pro-democracy movement in hong kong. we are not only focusing on the move or the announcement from the united states i think how country in europe react on the crackdown in hong kong would be also remarkable for us to realize that is tied to hold the accountability do you think europe is doing and off to hold beijing accountable. different countries have different foreign policy to us hochul and china but the window was there are regional approach and once that consideration is time to reassess house their policy to continue and has. fights and also how they reassess their front policy to the hot line crackdown from beijing i'd like to talk

about you i mean you disbanded your political party demos you stuart on the time that the new security law was being implemented you said you feared being targeted by bingeing as a result of the new security law do you still have those fears. which is hard for us to ensure. our safety and i'm not sure when i will be arrest that and be extradited to china and we might be all worried about the threat that we need to face in upcoming future but know whether what happened was do have no regret at all to continue colas on free action some of your colleagues for example need to know and others have left hong kong to try and bring hong kong's voice to the international arena do you plan on leaving home congress

from. calling you plan to fight for freedom and that's my decision. joshua long for democracy activist speaking to us from hong kong thank you very much for your time so clearly joshua walling is determined to stay and fight for democracy in hong kong but many others in the chinese territory aren't so sure continuing political instability and fears of an erosion of the territory's freedoms have forced people to look for exit options quite they truly are. gary and his fiance have just a few more months to enjoy their life in hong kong before they say goodbye to the hometown and then a great to australia when gary filed the application 5 years ago leaving was only a backup plan says than hong kong has been through massive social and political upheaval but it was the unprecedented antigovernment protests last year that finally pushed him over the at church. this isn't the hong kong i grew up with any

more freedom has been restricted but hong kong will soon be no different from the rest of china i feel even more unsafe under the new national security law from what we've lost so we have to find it elsewhere or you want. to fight or to flee that's a tough question for many homeowners like gary starting a life abroad will likely be a rocky path even in his job as an engineer gary and his fiance but that's not want to be interviewed because she fears for her job here are prepared to start from scratch a price they're willing to pay in exchange for liberty. it's time to abandon our well paid jobs friends everything we've established here where we were born in ranges we did struggle to make this decision but around a 3rd of my friends are also considering leaving or at least sending their children

abroad to. the. official figures show that the number hold co-residents leaving is at its highest in 7 years around 30000 people left in 2019 a 40 percent search in just a year and that's expected to keep growing since the new chinese security law was enacted last month a number of countries have pledged to make it easier for hong kong ers to emigrate to australia taiwan and britain are among the popular destinations the u.k. government to even allow the really the free media the whole calmness with british national overseas passports or documents from the colonial era to settle there and a question is more than a personal choice in hong kong it's also our issue beijing has wanted to stop recognizing the special purchase from our hong kong president in retaliation for

bread. his offer to pick the mean. heavyweight. the permanent president those granted u.k. citizenship which means the right to vote and stand for election in hong kong. has recently been travelling around home call to capture is iconic scenery these pictures just remember off the place no longer. specially since many friends will soon drift apart i treasure the remaining chances to be together and i hope i can still contribute to my hometown by other means in the future home. to india now where thousands of crocodiles of the country's biggest crock sanctuary are facing starvation the spend has forced the park to close to visitors depriving

it of one of its most important sources of income the park near the southern city of chennai has had to come up with new ways of raising funds to keep the joined reptiles fed and its conservation program alive. it's lunchtime at the crocodile park and there's a lot of hungry mouths to feed. but 2000 crocs at this conservation project could soon be going hungry india's biggest crocodile sanctuaries largely funded by ticket sales it's a big attraction you know half a 1000000 people visit this park every year but when india locked down in mid march it had to close to visitors who won't be returning for the foreseeable future. so keeping that got them from our viewer in mind actually not expecting. to get it when you. actually start ones make sure that we are able to see.

the madras crocodile bank opened over 40 years ago and has bred some 5000 crocodiles since the park is now started a crowdfunding campaign to help the reptiles survive but it's not just money that's missing. there are some colleagues here walk or in dining right now as well and since this stuff works on the surface it's kind of it's when difficult because there's a lot of work load and we need our full stop to be present because we have a lot of animals here. to make sure the challenge. and to enable the pot to continue its conservation whack stock of also not just another way of raising funds . to tend the crux and to. get on t.v. that's a solution that's ivanovich or to check out other stories on our website called forward slash asia and see us on facebook and twitter as well now earlier today the

volcano mount it up to them indonesia's tomato island sending a call them a volcanic material some 5000 meters into the sky thankfully no one was injured we leave you with the images of this morning's explosion and go back to more of the same time so you know that about. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. special next on d w. climate change.

says. he is today their future. for the city. india has been one of the world's economic success stories the country is home to some of the world's richest people and millions have been lifted out of poverty. but a pandemic could change that code 19 hits everyone the poor. as well as the rich and famous. with the world's 3rd highest number of confirmed covert 900 cases more

than 2000000 experts are warning of rising poverty at the same time india cannot afford another lock down leaving the country between a rock and a hard place. welcome to a cup in 1000 special here on t.w. news i want to get johnson girl i'm good to have you with us so india is in focus today it of course is one of the most populated countries in the world and one of the hardest hit by the corona virus pandemic the country's strict lockdown may have saved many lives but it also rocked many of their life a hot spot and that's where 2 teenagers from delhi come in as early as march they set up a national hotline to direct food and medicine to people in need helping some 70000 today and demand for aid is not even a way how many people who. do fall near them will be all. over. our

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