in short while ago the delis chief political editor of the kinder cook asked germany's economy minister peter out of my about the protests and the far right symbols on display so minister there was not the symbolism on the steps of the bull in the stock here and these are pictures that have sparked intense debate here in germany will the german government now discuss the vita freedom of the semi and also conditions of limiting that german is a free society a free country is a democracy freedom of opinion freedom of expression is i guaranteed by our legal order and will be guaranteed in the future this has been a political action against parliament against government but there are enough remedies for dealing with that and for maintaining populate order i do not see the need to reduce freedoms under the fundamental you know of my country

now the underlying criticism also of those demonstrators is the full force analyse of corona instructions here in germany wants is the formula of the gem government that well when germany was affected by the 1st. wave of corona infections and spring like so many has our countries felt right we have to decide without experience in similar pandemic challenges we have to decide about appropriate responses and we did so we did so very successfully germany has been able to contain the number of casualties we have been able to maintain the function of our public health services and we have been able to flattens or curve by reducing impressively the number of new infections day this as a wonderful proof. of the justification of the measures taken.

as a country where every citizen when he believes matter is proportional can take legal action action before courts can organize additions to parliament and a government but i cannot see any area where the responses given by. states given by the federal states have been unproportionate as a disclaims by very few protesters missed out my thank you very much thank you. millions of students across europe are returning to school for the 1st time since the coronavirus crisis began affronts now requires all teachers and students over 10 years old to our masks in various parts of europe are parents and unions are worried about returning to classrooms when the factions are on the increase again but governments are insisting that children's education must be protected. while

belgium has one of europe's highest corona related death rates despite this an increasing number of belgians say they are no longer willing to stick to restrictions a study in the dutch speaking region of flanders more than half the population shows that 7 out of 10 did not support the pandemic regulations the w.'s teri schultz. the covert 19 infection rate is declining in belgium but kovac 19 fatigue is growing so many months of isolation and so many masks for me it's like something really oppressive t.-bo who doesn't want to give his last name despises social distancing and defies the rule to wear a mask in downtown brussels if i fired her in the shop if i go in the metro ok but if i walk alone in the street no no that is really too much and tivo is hardly alone in his opposition michael johnson who represents the protest group virus

madness says no one should have to follow restrictions except to the most vulnerable how many people would die if we would not take any measures at all at the moment we don't know in fact you have no idea new research shows just one in 3 people surveyed in the dutch speaking part of belgium still supports the safety measures that's down from more than 80 percent in march when the pandemic 1st hit here university of ghent professor martin feldstein who led the study blames poor official communication for the dramatic drop in motivation he says it's been a wake up call for a thaw. it is to pay more attention to people state of mind i don't think we have sufficiently been informing people on the consequences of their behavior for them to take a wise decision and now with the 1st of september comes the traditional way in belgium a return from holidays back to work and school it could be

a toxic coronavirus cocktail were quite worried leading belgian virologist stephen vang says experts are stealing for a potential september surge he nonetheless agrees people should be given more information about actions and consequences and then more autonomy so people can have some freedom to choose what they think is appropriate for their situation and they can at their behavior but are people so sick of restrictions by now they would follow them believes most do comply with a bit but just think if i don't obey them to strictly because it's very difficult to do but i try anyway they command i feel much safer wearing it we must do it all together but skepticism is clearly growing in recent days open letters have been published in belgian media signed by hundreds of experts including doctors scientists and researchers suggesting the strict measure should be reviewed to see

if they're stopping the virus or just the vitality of everyday life. not to rush out a battle to stop mining activities in an area that local residents consider sacred for weeks activists have been fighting to win protected status for. the southern your old mountains the site has seen protests some violent they wus your english at reports. a beautiful hail and more recently a symbol of resistance at the start of this summer the crushed our mountain was slated to be destroyed and used as a cheap source abroad material to produce soda but for residents like fyodor because menko it's much more than just a green hill for locals cush town means home. i was born here my roots are here. is one of 4 freestanding mountains in the pretty year old mountain range the view

from here from the highest level of course is breathtaking. formed more than 230000000 years ago today krrish tower consists of the remains of an ancient coral reef in ancient times the ocean extended across this area. since the 1950 is the bashkirs so to company has been mining limestone here the mountain next to kush now the shaft has only one quarry left these pictures show the massive destruction caused by the mining. clearly if it delays between saying no to this environmental destruction but it keeps on going because it's cheap because the company does not want any more costs or the renewals of. the costs in question are to acquire alternative fuel materials apparently the management prefers to accept environmental destruction when we approached the company to respond to these accusations our request for an interview was declined. on august

4th the excavators arrive to begin mining the mountain that's when flora has mango and his fellow campaigners took action what i'm about to get would be marriage i wish i reached out to russian president putin and such operate camp to guard the mountain the resistance was in full swing. but. i was there then on august 15th police arrived to clear the camp with force thousands of people resisted fighting for their mountain the situation escalated. still because many of us were arrested many had to be taken away in an ambulance was reasonably low but the company insisted on continuing with its plans the activists the peals to the leadership of the republic of bash quarter stan saying it shared responsibility for the environmental destruction and the acting regional

minister responded by declaring the mansion would be protected forever as a natural monument this truth unless they've been a machine a negative emotions had gone through the roof we needed a solution to break this environmental problem had been there for quite some time it divided our society and now people have calmed down again but again so what was there for the stability of the books of the last go with books with the proper officials before. and indeed at the end of august the police would usually for short of cause menko the figurehead of the resistance sees this as a huge success goodness the mileage you're sure they say that the young people of today are useless this is not true when it matters these young people know how to come together and get results. could. in the end it was a victory for bashkirs civil society but this is only the 1st step because as long as the or thirty's have not implemented their plans and pushed i was not officially

declared a protected natural area the activists planned to continue guarding their mountain . germany's top skier victoria ripens book has stunned the sport by announcing her retirement at the age of just 30 she won gold in the giant slalom at the vancouver olympics in 2010 and has 3 world cup titles in the discipline rebels burke says her chinese levels have been below her usual standards after she suffered an injury earlier this year. finally k. pop sensation b.t.s. have become the 1st korean act to debut at number one in the us singles chart of the boy band single dynamite 1st song entirely in english achieve 33000000 streams and 300000 sales in its 1st week of august.

as a reminder of the top story of the us city racked by violence since a black president was gunned down by police is bracing itself for a visit from from president unrest and violence in cities has become a hot issue in the presidential election. in hong kong has begun mass coronavirus testing to try and stop a 3rd wave faction some democracy activists fear china is often the free pass to collect d.n.a. data from hong kong government and dismisses to those concerned. this is the w. up next in news asia china's foreign minister in lives and faces questions over hong kong's new security will. see just a moment i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news in the meantime of course as always the website dot com good.

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what should be done with the stolen or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. stolen and sold for september 7th on g.w. . this is due to other news a show coming up today china germany touch base in the shadow of increased chinese authoritarianism in hong kong. china's foreign minister says beijing's actions in hong kong are legitimate what his german counterpart proposes groups of dialogue. one activist says the time for thought of all these obama and concrete actions on leaders made some noise it also draws for more on where hong kong goes next.

play. i bet. welcome to d.w. news asia it's good to have you with us china's foreign minister has said a recently introduced security law was needed to bring peace to the streets of hong kong one ye made the remarks earlier in the day as he met german foreign minister heikal moss just outside berlin wang said hong kong had beaten chaos of the high point of street protests and the law which critics have described as being draconian was required to calm the protests there was more of what he said. over 80 percent of the people in hong kong think that their lives and rights have not been affected by the national security law besides which it's all foreign nationals and that foreign companies in hong kong can have their benefits legally and sufficiently guarantee through the law isn't that

a good thing if you who call the shots you. really are someone who may annoy you that is indeed the case but 1st here is what german foreign minister heikal must said at the same press conference. and i am currently trying to make it clear to my dialogue partners those who visit me and who i visit that they must be prepared that europe will represent its interests more confidently in the future we will not allow ourselves to become the plaything of a power competition between the us russia and china we want to do this in dialogue with everyone talk with. so what do these statements mean for those for use in china's crackdown on human rights and free speech joining me in the studio is former hong kong lawmaker for democracy activist. welcome to the loop what do you make of the statements of the foreign minister as well we all know that the west has been adopting a. strategy to china for pos that case but in fact it does not work we

thought that china will go to a more democratize or open the russian with a growing up population a wealth in the country but it's going into the opposite way so i would be having down the full on but it should not be as an excuse for us not to take actions for now we need to be really aware of the chinese expansion is also a terrorism and to take problems actions in order to contain that do you think that the worst is not aware or trying these intentions in chinese are these therefore appeasing the chinese well we've had a long period of mistrust and i think this is a weather can always buy a lot of politicians i talked to several of them and they also said to me that they thought china that the problem of all the credit regime will be fixed when people rise up more middle clause more wealth for legal rights and so and so

forth but in fact that is not the case and i think this is coming to a consensus that we need to take actions and we need to be more assertive and critical towards the system than we had before changed through trade because we were devoted to and this is really been the cornerstone of german policy for example. with china do you think germany is following correct policy with regards to china when it comes to human rights violations say in hong kong well starting from. the german government has been having. action with china of course we've been hearing. a lot of the chairman of the show saying that they want to fix to solve the problems by heaven dol befall us we would clearly understand heaven is not in of course we need so every interaction we need to talk to each other but. most important this we need to have come to my shows we need to understand that while full incidence concerning concentration came in the

humorous alesha in hong kong is not going to be fixed by just talking to china we need to have a coordinated actions and a coalition on defending democratic values so that we could get something work what would you have the german government do well i think 1st of all we have to recognize that actions is needed and we need to be based diplomacy and a coalition with other western democracies and also democracies like japan and korea so that we can have you not to front to go against these author of terror and regime because it is clear that. terrorism they're not abusing not only abusing the rights of people in the country but they also importing also a talent. into the democracies so that to dismantle and discredit us and is it important for us to take actions that protects our democratic rights and also the

rights of people in manage china and hong kong you spoke up for united front to look to expand to be your producer because you got to be on a european tour which is in germany he was in the men's frauds and in fact you followed him or to interview him you were protesting in rome as row when it comes to your repaired union do you see some sort of a united front developing or going strong or well i think the consensus building up is important we see it as any issue that every single polity and every single country could join and should join in. to protect our shared fairly all democracy so i think the trend. is just a matter of how we could accelerate it and make it done before it's too late do you think europe is policing trade before human rights in its remissions we're trying or what is it important that we remind ourselves prioritize trait interest over

humanize we're not talking about we should cut all the tights with china it's quite impossible under the globalization era but it's important that we interact with them with the with that not see what the valley is and we are not being. too broad to bring up issues that really are concerns and that our values should allow us to bring up so it's important that we to others and even though we interact with them we speak it loud method you speak about values but then the reality is that when it comes to germany for example china is a very important trip just in turn do you remember when there was close to 200000000000 euros worth of trade when it comes to the european union china is also one of the top 3 trading book of your book a big sums of money do you think values will be more important when it comes to true well i think for us quite disappointing for us the thing though if we taught

these issues of china and we will lose all the interest because we should not be abided by the faults we should be confident to our economy our products our exports and we should well as a giant western democracy germany it has been through a lot of trauma take period in history and we all understand that something in the values that we fought for yes it should not be replaced and cannot be replaced by merely monetary interests so it's important that yes we continue to have dialogue yes we continue to have trait but. there should be a human right close to us and that should be actions that to contain that expansion us today so that's a protects our democracy and it's not only the thing for hong kong people foreseen john people for the people in concentration camps but it's a fight that we work with together you left hong kong just a couple of months when the security of door was about to be imposed the demos are still the party that you would have thought of along with george will warm have to

be disbanded as a result of that you said that you want to be here in the worst so you can bring the issue of china's human rights abuses on an international stooge how exactly do you plan to go about doing it well of course it's unfair that a call for an ex out of us to plan is fuchsia but i remind myself that i carry a huge responsibility to be out here and when i. need it for me to be a voice of hong kong i will be the until this time when china's foreign minister is having a europe trip. and not be represented by these authoritarian representative of china so i what i'm here and i'm speaking up for hong kong people and fight for freedom and democracy to report to go the beautiful model maker you know sort of one of the youngest lawmakers hong kong ever had and now you know one 3rd on the new hong kong security law where do you think you see things headed in hong kong

myth and. what can we expect in the coming few months or years yeah well i myself as a story. it's enough to reflect how erodes at home can see some or has been well i was only 14 and i was elected as the youngest parliamentary and i was gel it into 17 and what's my seat in the lunch co and then i am intensely 20 being a solid and you can see that deterioration and for me in hong kong we are in such a tough time that the government abuse and i would surely use the national security law to prosecute political activists and our freedom of expression is lost so it's important to let the world knows that the situation in hong kong should not be repeated in elsewhere and if we do not be aware and take actions towards these expansionist communist party then we'll suffer from it just one last question very briefly do you think hong kong has dreams for over well i think it's important we have to work there gotta international community to put pressure on china so that

there will be changes and by the time there are changes. and system hong kong could have a chance to be better with them over leave it there but thank you so much frank you can. that's a lot of the story. and even now with the protests in hong kong. speech could result in arrest so they're leaving their signs black blank i'm sorry we're back tomorrow to them for.

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