this is being hotly debated on both continents. the unsold torture chambers of g.w. . this is b.w. news live from berlin a pro democracy media tycoon tells d.w. news that hong kong will continue to resist jimmy lion unbalanced by his 40 hour detention under a new security law imposed by beijing. i can't be scared but i'm scared i won't be able to do anything or say anything. plus an environmental emergency in the

pristine waters off mauritians where the stranded oil tanker has broken into we ask a maritime expert to assess the impact. on mary in evanston it's good to have you with us hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie has denied colluding with foreign governments he made the statement after being released from prison on bail why was arrested last monday under a new security law imposed by beijing during an interview with g w he said he expected resistance in hong kong to china would continue. venturing campaigner jimmy lie has been detained many times but this was the 1st time he was taken away in handcuffs lawyer told to die. although he expected his

arrest he was surprised that it came so soon and that his sons were also targets and. this time the actual me maybe because they have this so. i was actually shocked and that makes it more scary especially when when when they take your friend me. with what you do i think this is a very effective intimidation to the community. and i says his most emotional moment this week was when he was surrounded by supporters after he was freed on bail during his foresee our detention police show to interviews he did with foreign media pads and some social media posts as evidence of suspected collusion with foreign forces and you offense that the person in jail for life i met mike pence i met on people and some of the senators and congressmen in the u.s.

but if you called this is called lucian what can i say so mostly my career shouldn't is to have interviews why are you still doing that but. i can't be scared if i'm scared i won't be able to do anything or say anything that's why i accept your interview without any doubt beijing is making similar allegations against the media tycoon's nice paper after all they need the most read and critical paper in time it's news room was also raided lie had this message for his staff. i told them that consider your own safety your conscience and you operate cation to church and society we are not asking you to be demarked her you know do whatever you think is the right thing to do so we would just continue to do it and test the water many protesters have been left wondering what now i have

as both peaceful and by then talk to visit and see men they. lost gail demonstration will be a thing of the past but it doesn't mean that people will cease to reduce it i think the recent students will go on but in a different way i definitely don't read that we have to confront them head on because this is going to be a long fight we have to be flexible and courses and creative i will only be a solid wall off for a team why do you believe that a peaceful protest can pressure on the chinese government you with us why don't ins how can you be more while in bed the c.c.p. who have the guns and pangs. the billionaire fled to han khan from mainland china when he was a penniless 12 year old he attributes his success to the freedom he found in the

territory but he's not planning another estate even though he may have to spend the rest of his life behind bars i was single as a ship because this phrase skate me everything you know i mean death to this place i'm very grateful to what the ski what this process given me i'm 73 almost so maybe is a payback time why should i be doing the right steve. and our correspondent phoebe kong who did that interview with jimmy lai joins me now from hong kong hello to you phebe so listening to jimmy my speaking there he said the resistance in hong kong will go on but in a different way what do you think he means by that. what you mean i am intent in the interview without you think there's not much people can do on the street right now in

a home home because often you sweeping national security and all but despite the fact that it's not very possible to help in the massive demonstration but the thing people should continue to fly out of these polls and creative ways to sustain the movement point from polls like the voice of support. to the international community because you think the hong kong. the moral power is the greatest state to hong kong and at the moment and that can help them to draw international support to keep that the money and apart from that he also think that it's also important for the opposition figures to remain in office even though the election is all born in a year right now but do you think if they important for people in opposition figures to fight inside his. t.v. you mention jim and i talking about support from overseas specifically support

from the united states if the u.s. is actively supporting hong kong's pro-democracy opposition what could that mean for relations between the u.s. and mainland china. while the u.s. china relationship have been already very intense i know the past few months and for the past one to 2 years because of the time. warning to all but home protests right now broke out from last year we saw a lot of it but retaliation when the china and us and i hope all is that are at the forefront of this so-called neo cold war between the 2 superpowers so we definitely that this kind of light you can see the fear and the places that will go well will carry on. the frustration now in hong kong that the u.s.

strongly opposed to the way of trying to ruin all especially the implementation of the national security so we expect that will be. many more like retaliate 3 matches laid out between the 2 superpowers. w's t.v. kong reporting from hong kong thank you so much. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of minsk for a march for freedom organized by the belo racin opposition it comes just one week after the disputed election that triggered protests against the authoritarian president alexander lukashenko his supporters are also expected to stage a rally which israel launched further airstrikes on hamas positions in gaza overnight and has closed the enclaves off shore fishing zone the army said the measures were in response to rockets and balloon fire bombs being sent into israeli

territory over the past week it's the most intense escalation of hostilities in months. firefighters in california are battling numerous blazes are raging in the north and south of the u.s. state amid a record breaking heat wave this fire along the nevada border prompted authorities to order evacuations and shut a major highway it's already destroyed more than $8000.00 hectares. a japanese oil tanker that has spilled more than a $1000.00 tonnes of oil since running aground off the coast of the rishis has broken into officials said the split was caused by a crack in a cargo hold on the stern after this ship's condition deteriorated severely overnight emergency teams and thousands of volunteers have been racing to siphon off some 3000 tons of oil still on board the ship.

let's bring in bigger he's a director of the safe seas network on maritime security thanks for much for joining us now you have been following this oil spill off more issues and you say the island was not prepared for such a disaster but that it should have been how come. that is correct it's the government knew about risk versus this close to one of the main shipping lanes i mean in 2016 it was a similar incident but the country was lucky but this is. true for preparedness they should know the lessons from the 26 eubanks they did they were not prepared all right well morrish is of course an island it's very small how can smaller states prepare for a disaster of this scale. well i just had the majority of countries have

contingency plans. didn't have a contingency plan but there was no appropriate exercise being done for the planet actually worse or not so because i didn't around the world a small head in states need to generally know oscon sounds they are very efficient used immersions disasters as a scenario and then i doubt whether they put these columns to this disaster like this could happen in other places in the world and american heritage does it risk here. well what specifically could have done better in your opinion. well just up with it was the incessant amount it fitment able to contain the spill quickly so that was clear but there's also a case of whether the accident could have prevented in the 1st instance by an.

interception then you also need to ask the question what actually happened in these 2 weeks before the. oil spill there were 2 weeks of opportunity to do something different i think we need an independent investigation both in terms of the courses of the initial accident but that wasn't a governmental reaction and how well it worked then with the salvage company of the . rescue company and my suspicion is that they put a nation there very well the reaction was too slow and so on and this brought us to the disaster that we are looking at now. all right kristen very good director of the safe seas network on maritime security thank you very much for your assessment for me. all right i'd like to bring you up to date now with the latest

developments in the corona virus pandemic the world health organization is sounding the alarm after the number of new infections hit an all time high according to the w h o n nearly 300000 cases were recorded across the world just in the past 24 hours south korea and the u.s. have delayed their annual joint military drills after a south korean officer tested positive for covert 19 the training is now due to start on tuesday but it's scope has been scaled down and a new zealand deputy prime minister has called for a delay to the planned september general election that's after an abrupt resurgence in of coronavirus cases in the country's largest city auckland. well political twitter fights are not unusual in the run up to a presidential election but now a surprisingly animated spat has broken out between a campaign advisor to u.s. president. and very famous suburban housewife presidential aide jenna ellis

kicked off the war of words when she tweeted that presumptive democratic vice presidential candidate camila harris sounded like marge simpson prompting a rush of comments but it's likely one person she did not expect to hear from was marge simpson herself i usually don't get into politics but the president's senior adviser general allen just said conall harris sounds like me she doesn't mean it as a compliment at that shot as an ordinary suburban housewife. a little disrespect i teach my children not to name call. i was going to say 2 half but i'm afraid they played it. and yes indeed we did have to believe that expletive so there you have it from marge simpson herself to not call people names

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