often violent ime to racism protests following the police shooting of black president jacob blake last month tensions are running high in several u.s. cities including portland in the west coast state of oregon. another nights and another protest in portland oregon leftwing anti-racism demonstrators have been taking to the streets here for more than 3 months since the killing by police of african-american george floyd in minnesota in may but the last few days have seen an unusual rise in tension that has both law enforcement and locals worried. it follows the shooting dead of a far right trump supporter at a demonstration on saturday the exact circumstances are still being investigated but regional leaders fear this could lead to an escalation of violence it's in the middle of this volatile atmosphere that tramples decided to visit another flashpoint city no she was constant despite a plea from the man to stay away we always have room for presidents to come to

visit our families to come to visit that's the process that you have and it's something that we would really appreciate and have people do but the timing on this we felt was not good and so we did make a request for him to do with a different time. and she raises and demonstrations and mostly peaceful has been taking place in commercial since pleas shot to black president jacob blake in the back in august. but day 2 took a turn for the worse last week after a 17 year old white man allegedly killed 2 black lines lots of protesters and injured a 3rd on monday trump appeared to defend the teenager fueling fears that the president's presence would cause further division in the city. and he was trying to get away from them i guess it looks like and he fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something that we're looking at right now and it's under investigation but. i guess so he was in very big trouble for some alleged

compass hyping the unrest ahead of the election to shift the focus away from his failure to manage to come to me democrats opponent joe biden has a step further accusing champ for mentoring the finance fires are burning we have a president who fanned the flames rather than fighting the flames. but the fear among trump critics is that he will use the disturbances in places like portland to ramp up calls for law and order but only he can provide. well president trump is on his way to can assure wisconsin d.w. correspondent staff and simons is that welcome stephanie what's the mood there ahead of this visit while at the moment everything is very calm here and fairly empty people having the arrive here to greet the president and of course this can osha wisconsin is the safest place in the united states today why because the

president is visiting when the president visits anywhere but in the white house then he brings a lot of security with secret service is it reserves or they come normally in the day before check everything out from the bomb sniffing dogs to everything more rope last more checkpoints is that or is that for and this is what we have right now so no tension as of now right here right now president about an hour and a half outs to visit this town and this is where we are ok and what is the president said he wants to achieve with this visit. you know that's a very good question and i might quote to you something he said yesterday in a press conference a white house press conference he said asked if the visit here in can osha would maybe be counterproductive to calming things down and actually increasing tension see in the president said quote it would also increase it could also increase and

susie essman and it could increase love and respect for our country and quote so that was the president yesterday and that is exactly his mindset of course this has to be taken with a grain of salt because as referred to in the report we just ran this is all strategy this is me donald trump sheriff in town law and order 'd president taking care of things when they go south south for him means protests arson looting burning buildings cars is that or is that now the underlying problem here is that he is of course nowhere close to mentioning what this situation was brought upon why why because a african american citizen of this town he had to take up lake was shot in the back 7 times. by a police officer right there you know you've mentioned that the president is full of detail has already been through there with the sniffer dogs and overestimate we've seen clashes all the way through last week between police and protesters that

must be fears about happening again today with the president in town. absolutely there is there is absolutely this this this notion and this fear of hey how is this going to end up here today if when the president leaves the lease after a few hours talking to the police meeting law enforcement officers surveying the destruction just down the road a few 100 yards but want to after watch after leaving that can osha is by itself again and then of course protesters couldn't and would maybe not take it too. lightly that he was here to do as they say as they think one thing and one thing only stoke the fire stoke the flames see division in the country and even here in the town so this could be and get an interesting evening and night in can also in

regards to violence or violent protests of course nobody can say i don't know and we all hope that it's not the case but it's definitely possible but again democrats as well as a lot of citizens here as well as the governor and as well as the mayor of the town of kenosha wisconsin here clearly fear that his presence here his presence here makes things worse and not better at all stephan simons in commercial thank you now to lebanon where french president emanuel macro mocked the nationals and taney and urged political leaders to make political and economic reforms is warning lebanese politicians of punitive measures unless economic and political reforms are initiated within 3 months and lebanon the former french protectorate has been wriggling in the aftermath of a massive explosion that tore through beirut last month the new prime minister mustapha deep faces a formidable task in resolving

a political crisis. a country in rubble and this is the man tasked with rebuilding it lebanon's newly designated prime minister mustafa. the former diplomat is trying to restore the people's faith after the massive explosion that devastated beirut 4 weeks ago. work hand in hand to rebuild what was destroyed. now. be forming a new government we will accelerate the investigation and the result will be made public as soon as. it's a huge challenge and not the only one lebanon's economy is in a deep recession and the currency in freefall corruption and mismanagement have devastated many basic services and the recent chemical explosion was just the latest disaster blamed on poor governance here to offer support the french

president emmanuel mccrum is visiting lebanon for the 2nd time since the disaster on tuesday he attended a ceremony with victims and visited the blast site micron has been pushing for fast reforms in the crisis hit country including of lebanon's complex tarion political system he warned that punitive measures could be implemented if changes aren't made within the next 3 months also said he was garnering international support for the country. i am ready for us to organize an international support conference with the united nations and i am ready to host it in paris and there on the basis of the demands the people have expressed and the work we will undertake with the new government and with backing from the united nations we can once again ask for support from all the different states.

but the bulk of the. to rebuild lebanon will lie with mustafa id. a man who many aren't welcoming to the office many in lebanon see a da best part of the old system and therefore an unacceptable choice as prime minister gaining people's trust could be the greatest hurdle facing lebanon's freshly appointed prime minister. it would take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world right place in battle groups have detained at least 18 university students protesting against or for a tarion president alexander lukashenko the students were marching through the capital minsk on the 1st day of the academic year calling on the president to quit on rights group has recorded that some students were beaten up. despite the coronavirus recession germany's economy minister has revised upwards its economic forecast for this year economies are expected to shrink by 5.8 percent that's less

than was feared when the pandemic began to have a growth forecast for next year of being adjusted down its. own call has begun mass coronavirus testing in an attempt to stop the 3rd wave faction. leader carrying down was one of thousands of people to get tested on tuesday and the activists fear china will use the scheme to collect personal data and hong kong government to dismiss those concerns. a time as foreign minister has condemned a group of chad parliamentarians for crossing a line by visiting taiwan a check senate president said this to chile's leading a delegation to taipei where he delivered a passionate speech in parliament say he was taiwanese china claims taiwan is its own territory the diplomatic dispute spilled over here in the lead today with china's foreign minister visiting his german counterpart. chief international

editor richard walker was at the news conference given by the 2 ministers welcome richard and the same should been something of an argument. yes that's right phil i mean the taiwanese always a very sensitive issue for the chinese government they're very very prickly about anything that could give the impression that taiwan is some kind of independent country that can stand on its own 2 feet and that's exactly the impression that they feel that this checked allegation visiting taiwan gives off and just yesterday before arriving in berlin. the chinese foreign minister really openly threatened the leader of that delegation he said that he would pay a heavy price for the visit so in this press conference with his german counterpart heiko mass just earlier today he really doubled down on that explaining why he made

that threat and for his part heiko mass really shot back at him saying that that wasn't really in order so let's have a listen to what they said. that is foreign interference in china's internal affairs. should have you china must respond appropriately there's only one china in the words and taiwan is part of china's territory sure that is the consensus in the whole world and. we're going to stand up for our values outside the use borders as well as within them and we will no longer accept threats against this commitment. from all. so richard walker why was mr wang at all. yes well this was meant to be an exercise a kind of diplomatic patching up with europe after months that have really been overshadowed by just an enormous set of problems are in fact relations between

china and the e.u. it's pretty safe to say all is not well with them and this really goes back of course to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic which of course began in china and there is a sense that if any questions about how open china was at the beginning of that pandemic whether it could have been more transparent about the beginnings of it something that could potentially have given other countries more time to prepare for it to arrive on their shores but that's far from being the only issue for a whole host of problems there are soaring geopolitical tensions with the americans basically over trade but of all sorts of other things where europe is in a bit of a pickle about where to position itself there are human rights violations going on in grand style in chin jang in the northwestern muslim minority province in china and of course what's been going on in hong kong where a new national security law was imposed by the chinese just this summer something

of the german c. a stripping away very very important commitments that were made to hong kong when it rejoined china from being a british colony back in 1997 so all of these major issues on the table and at the same time the chinese and the europeans ostensibly want to agree. to an investment treaty that is particularly important of the europeans because they say they want to give their companies better access to the chinese market but of course with wangi coming to these diplomatic talks with hamas today with a cloud of having openly threatened the european lawmaker hanging over him they weren't necessarily the most or special circumstances to make big progress and you mentioned the controversial security law in hong kong did that come up. yes it days and. said that the concerns of the german side were expressed about this haven't

gone away that the chinese have not been able to provide assurances germany has taken some steps in response to this relatively minor ones but for instance suspending its extradition treaty with hong kong so that being a signal that it really has no longer has trust in hong kong legal system. international editor richard war thank you. no high profile australian journalist who works for china's international broadcaster appears to have been detained without charge by chinese authorities truong lay hosts a business news program on c g t n the english language channel state run china central television australia know far to say she has been held since at least made alders but don't know why she was detained mr cho has used social media to criticize the chinese government and its handling of the coronavirus of hundreds i want to tell the story. the debris

reporter on her saka has been following the story welcome all of what more do we know so you know that friends of hers 1st started worrying a couple of weeks back when they couldn't reach her and they also notice that her videos have video content had been taken down from the c.g. t.n. websites. has worked for the state broadcaster for more than 80 years she was born in china but she's an australian citizen and the australian embassy in beijing they say they have been in touch with her via video link but they do not know why she's been detained from the chinese sign they have confirmed that the 5th tension but they haven't given any details other than that she's being held on the so-called risk residential surveillance now that sounds like home detention it is not a form of detention that's often used for dissidents for journalists basically you are held at a secret location and authorities can keep you there for up to 6 months without

without an official arrest or charge ok so so at least china has confirmed yes we've got it but we can only speculate but why would beijing detain one of their own state t.v. anchors yes like you said there is no official explanation but we know that she has been vocal on social media when it comes to the chinese handling of the coronavirus in one facebook post from march she referenced as an arctic. about a whistle blower as it were one hospital we can have a look here chung late describes the doctor in and questionnaire as the person who circled the words coronavirus on a patients diagnosis and 1st circulated among doctors last december that's one example but it hardly explains why she would be detained just that one post we know that on other occasions has toed the line if you like off of the chinese government us i perceive you would have to working for and for chinese state t.v.

and you know she she has been there for a long time she would know what the lines were that she you know where she was that you couldn't cross and also you know she works for the business desk and so on a professional basis daily basis she would kind of stay out of chinese politics the relationship between china and australia was already pretty fraught this is not going to help. no of course we don't know if this if this is part of the qana why the spot between the countries there has been diplomatic tension a while back australia the australians called for an international investigation into china into the source of the coronavirus and china china didn't like that they imposed trade tariffs on australian goods then there was also the huawei. spots where we australia has banned huawei the chinese tech giant from taking part in building its 5 g.

internet network so i had this attention of course you can see that there that is a deteriorating relationship this is but this is really an unprecedented at the tension it's not unusual that journalists audits hanged in china at the last count 48 journalists were present there what is unusual is that a foreign journalist is the time and on top of that she is someone who works for the state for coastal or all soccer thank you or to russia and a battle to stop mining. area that local residents consider sacred a christo hill they have a softened ural mountains has been the site of sometimes violent demonstrations for weeks t.w. as you are a rachet of reports the beautiful hail and more recently a symbol of resistance at the start of the summit the kurdish town mountain with slated to be destroyed indies there's a cheap source of room material to produce soda but for residents like florida

kuzmenko it's much more than just a green hill for locals cush town means home recently have of this lemon flown here my roots are here this yet if you. want to for free standing mountain in the premier all mountain range. the view from here from the highest level of pushed out his breast it. formed more than 230000000 years ago today crushed out consists of the remains of an ancient coral reef in ancient times the ocean extended across this area. since the 1950 s. the bashkirs soda company has been mining limestone here the mountain next to kush now the shuttle has only one quarry left these pictures show the massive destruction caused by the mining. giddily if it generates we've been saying no to this environmental destruction but it keeps on going because it's cheap because the

company does not want any more costs all the rules all. the costs in question are to acquire alternative fuel materials apparently the management prefers to accept environmental destruction when we approach 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 fewer of his men go and his fellow campaigners took action what i'm about to get would be a marriage i wish i reached out to russian president putin and set up a camp to guard the mountain the resistance was in full swing. but. i was then on august 15th police arrived to clear the camp with force thousands of people resist it fighting for their mountain the situation escalated. still because many of us were arrested many had to be taken away in an ambulance with

what was less than a blow 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 that the acting regional minister responded by declaring the mansion would be protected forever as a natural monument this truth unless you've been a mushroom the negative emotions had gone through the roof we needed a solution to bridge 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 the power of the symbolism of books of osco or books for the proper feel fulfilled . and indeed at the end of august the police judicially showed a kuzmenko the figurehead of the resistance sees this as a huge success goodness the model of your school they say that the young people of today are useless this is not true when it matters these young people know how to

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