when it comes to the fans. who have put their trust in us. this is. coming up today continuing the fight despite the all the. icons of hong kong's pro-democracy movement jimmy life and this child to continue fighting for greater democracy in the city days after they were detained under the strict new security role. and the fight against sexual harassment in south korea we need to point it has become the source of the need to movement in the country.

welcome to. join us well known hong kong pro-democracy activist jimmy lie has asked supporters to be innovative and patient with their fight for greater freedoms in the city he was granted bail on wednesday days after his arrest under the strict no 9 other people including activist agnes cha were arrested on monday by police under the new law after her release on bail on tuesday child 2 vowed to carry on the fight for democracy in hong kong the arrests come at a time when beijing has stepped up the pressure following more than a yard of protests by hong kong demanding a greater say in running their city or lease raiding all this is so precious and such while relations all. hong kong people believe

all freedom of speech what i want a media mogul jimmy lai answering questions online on his arrest this week under a new security law for hong kong he's a staunch supporter of the city's pro-democracy movement china considers him a traitor. when he was released on bail on wednesday a throng of supporters welcomed him chanting fight to the end. this is a long this is a long fight and i agree with you no so we cannot be replicable we cannot meet to confront them face to face because we are just not get it and they are high will so we contest it with this we have to be very reputable a statement in freedom also by agnes cho probably the female figurehead of hong

kong's pro-democracy movement no stranger to police detentions and holding her bail notice she spoke of her experience this time. to be honest the arrest happened so suddenly i was mentally unprepared for it it's been 8 years since i joined the democratisation movement in hong kong i've been arrested 4 times before but honestly this time i was the most scared and it was the hardest. the new security law punishes anything china considers subversion or terrorism in hong kong supporters say it will bring stability after months of anti-government protests critics say it crushes hong kong's freedoms. for more let's speak to be democratic spondon phoebe kong who joins me now from hong kong with more f.e.b.a. you were covering the police raids on monday that led to those arrests what is the

mood today amongst pro-democracy supporters in hong kong. on the those himalayan ass activists arrested on monday and now or released but we have know that they are only free on bail so which new south already didn't believe them and come to the way the investigation is still underway so the detainment and also the arrest in any other session operation on a monday on the senate chilly across the city specially to activists who. consider themselves to consider themselves as some might hi risk like group life so they see it out by maybe other mechs one to be a rat but we see like citizens and especially a pro-democracy movement support us and post have their say are using peaceful way to pull support and also consent by 2 was the latest situation in hong kong with what some call people are calling for each other to by escalating paper like the

hawk up regularly every day to show their support and all we also see that there are many podium office yoko posts as much a knife and and and the shots they place a 3rd of men on afp lately newspaper just so supportive to me and i and other asses as i always have to take a look at some of its councils like this is saying that support and this is saying that we can use money to buy goods but we don't but we tend to use money to buy freedom so when there are many more some folks like on the newspapers show that support life from now they will all will apply the no call you're talking about so-called hard risk groups other default democracy for go so my dearest and a lot of them have in fact fled the city to escape the formations of the new sokoto prominent or marx them and if enough for example who has fled to the u.k.

i wonder if the pro-democracy movement in the city now stands weakened. but definitely there are a lot of racism that we can do to protest especially. because of the newly elected national security a lot of people feel way too risky to take to the streets again as they could be easy targets for the on the street. and the charges relating to the left so color the validation of national security and also hong kong is still imposing a serious opposite sex since we got english social distancing rules and to bend public gatherings so it's pretty hostile or like people at local level together on the state t.v. kong in hong kong thank you so much for that. before this new security law was implemented hong kong's pro-democracy activists were facing a challenge from a different law one related to rioting which there is

a maximum sentence of 10 years some $600.00 protesters were charged but that last year during the government protests among them the couple featured in this next report they were eventually put out of the charge but not before it has impacted their lives in profound ways. this couple has gone through the toughest challenges and they're now ready to rebuild their lives. but just a month ago their fate as a couple was very uncertain henry tong and elaine tov worked as fitness coaches at the gym and hong kong their dream career and life. until last year when police arrested the couple at a proto mock receive protest and charge them with rioting they thought they were going to jail for potentially up to 10 years. dan de what he hears me the most is i couldn't see my dogs if i'm sent to jail and i couldn't see him if we were both put into jail we couldn't see each other anymore. we can only

write letters to each other. henry made a photo book for elaine so she could always remember their story if they were to be separated by prison boss it holds a lot of precious memories including their wedding last year celebrated just 4 days after the couple was released from jail. it cost a shadow over the happy day but the couple says they don't regret joining the protests might they know why all of it's no responsibility to speak out for injustice and for the future when i look back at my life what made me proud i really think that even though i was arrested i'm still proud. just don't like that you. can be in the lane project the rioting charge they say they were providing 1st aid to people who had been tear gassed by police.

on the day after verdict relief after a long and emotionally draining court process i saw a priest a sigh of relief as our emotions almost collapsed before the verdict we were really happy when the judge announced we were acquitted. what i thought i saw. a couple of grateful that they'll be able to stay together but several 100 others who are still awaiting their verdicts are going through similar emotional turmoil hoping they'll get unhappy and like henry and elaine. to south korea next where the apartment suicide last month of souls on song read night of the meter movement in the country box had been accused just a day earlier of harassment by a former secretary his death came as a shock to a country not used to openly talking about harassment that many women face it's something the poor choice you mean has firsthand experience with herself a victim of sexual harassment her career suffered when she came forward with

a complaint and in fact a 17 she immortalised her feelings and wants to teach who would i forgot kay's warning and sat next to mr in. need to this jacket borrowed from my sister got rumpled monster to young me's 2017 poem launched south korea's me to movement which today were against relevance as the country grapples with yet another sexual harassment scandal che wishes she came forward sooner. and i think i have no regrets. although when writing the poem the monster i thought i was writing it to light. well. i'm sorry for the young korean women i should have written and. the rule of the reexamination of south korea's me to movement comes after the july 9th death likely

by suicide of saul mayor talk one soon 2 days prior his former secretary complained to police of years of sexual harassment many at city hall are alleged to have enabled or ignored his behavior lawyers a pox alleged victim compelled the country's human rights commission to investigate prominent south korean women that have come forward to report sexual harassment and sexual crimes have often faced a backlash here their careers have suffered and they've endured personal attacks both online and offline from manti feminists the public and the media. it was sexual harassment but it also drove the young poet chain young me away from the literary world years ago. as when they said i was a bad picky and a nasty person especially male writers. i was forgotten in the literary world.

out of sight out all mind it's been a disadvantage. though not named cheese monster is understood to refer to legendary poet go earns a former nobel prize front runner he sued che and other women who later came forward but lost his literary legacy tarnished the most recent scandal appears to confirm it che's stark take on gender relations here. from the outside it's a high tech 21st century society but inside it's semi futile. people logically understand gender equality and feminism emotions and consciousness don't really change easily. because that cheney had been on friendly terms with the mayor and while she understands his behavior even now she offers him no quarter. young men develop twisted ideas about gender which in pin natural relationships

repressed sexual perceptions later erupt in distorted ways like nick parker one soon it's an unfortunate event that you can't cover up a person sexual harassment with death and i think we have to dig into the truth until the end. that's of the day we're back to what are the survivors the events of our. lives it is for me it. is for. being told it is for him. and beethoven is for. beethoven is. for covering. beethoven 202250 then a verse 3 here on. what

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1st in our mini series about how artists in various cities around the world coping up the moment today we are in rio de janeiro in brazil the infectious rhythms of the samba can only be heard throughout the city but not now we met up with one of the most popular exponents of the samba that. summer his life into all my teens is right in the midst of it the 35 year old is an important up and coming sound of musician everybody real danger near a news his hit song lend us the matter if i sounded. real it's quiet now while still plays his songs but somebody has gone silent nearly everywhere. there's no audience anymore and no one knows no one you can have a dialogue with so that people can be a part of it somebody lives from the masses from everyone taking part singing and clapping together.