this is news coming to you live from berlin. spend the independent news. and force foreign journalists will alex those attacks on the free press. the winners of what's often called the alternative nobel prize are announced. for

their activism by this year's right livelihood award. and the shop that throughout hong kong around the world we speak to the protester injured last year by the 1st police bullet fired during the city's pro-democracy demonstrations he's now facing years in prison. good to have you with us authorities in belarus have suspended the popular independent news outlet to be for 3 months the site has covered the ongoing protests against the reelection of authoritarian leader alexander lukashenko for people to be has been a key source of information about the government crackdown on the demonstrations has broadcast images documenting police violence and mass arrests including those of all the. leaders journalists and photographers. government is also making it

increasingly difficult for foreign journalists nic connolly who's reported there now for weeks shows us how belarus is trying to stop the cameras from filming and what that might mean for the protest movement for weeks of protests capturing imaginations around the world colorful symbols charismatic leaders. it's often turned ugly security forces cracking down brutally on peaceful protests and when it did photographers and journalists were there to report. people who tell you one thing time and time again knowing that the world is watching makes them feel safer. they show the outside attention acts as a restraint on the government. but journalists are facing increasing intimidation 2 photographers spent 15 days in jail for quote organizing an illegal protest they

had taken pictures of a demonstration an editor who published an interview in which a victim of torture named his torture also ended up in jail and tire news outlets now stand to lose their media licenses without them their journalists could face arrest at any time. foreign journalists like me haven't so far been subjected to this kind of treatment very soon there may not be any of us left here fellers getting a new cretaceous or extending this thing papers is no longer possible there's no outright refusal just the same excuse over and over again the commission in charge they say called get together because of covert this in a country where the man in charge president alexander lukashenko who claims to have won the disputed election downplays the dangers of the coronavirus he has said that a visit to the sauna is the best treatment for the disease. as independent media

here vanishes protesters fear a future in which there is no one left to document what the government does to its opponents. standoff in belarus is high on the agenda at an e.u. summit that's about to get underway in brussels european leaders are gathering for 2 days of talks about foreign affairs are brussels correspondent barbara vai's all is covering that summit for us barbara can we expect the e.u. to take any action on belarus. they're not going to take action but they will be desperately trying to resolve the problem about the bellows ascensions they were left shamefaced when 10 days ago the foreign ministers agreed to sanctions against about 40 members of the regime in minsk and then one country got up and said no that is cyprus cyprus is blackmailing the european union at this point they're linking sanctions they want against turkey to the sanctions against bella ruse those 2 things have nothing whatever to do with each other that is the situation

and now european leaders have to discuss reassuring cyprus and telling them we are by your side but could you please please let those velu sanctions go ahead. there's no shortage of challenges barbara for your leaders at the moment what else is on their summit agenda there are today. if you look at the map to terry it's little fires everywhere all around the borders of the european union just take as about john armenia the military conflict that had flared back into life as one example and turkey has its fingers in that conflict too then of course there is the main at this big is standoff between greece cyprus and turkey supported greece and cyprus supported by some western allies and turkey pushing egress to flee into the eastern mediterranean with drooling vessels that has almost led to military tension

tensions between nato members france was involved and now everybody is trying to defuse this and the question is will there be sanctions oborne that the pair is adamant that the turkey really needs to be threatened now that turkey doesn't understand the diplomatic language and needs some sort of very solid threats put on the table other countries particularly germany trying to defuse the escalation and say we need to sit down and talk and get to a solution was turkey it is a very difficult thing to deal was and it's not get clear it will get ok that conflict between turkey and cyprus in the eastern mediterranean is just one of the problems with the country relations with turkey are strange in multiple ways what's the e.u. overall strategy in dealing with turkey. if the e.u. would have a strategy they'd probably be a lot more relaxed and

a bit happier they're not united on this it is the big problem that there are different camps in within the european union in several foreign policy questions they don't speak with money wants the chancellor angela merkel just recently at manas talk colleagues and said we need to get together more on foreign policy otherwise nobody will take it seriously but there is the camp that is more aggressive like france and austria and some others greece of course and say we really need to sort of push back we need to show them that we can't be delhi was like this and others who say we the hard line approach doesn't lead anywhere we need to talk to them engage the men tell them that it is in their advantage to deal with us in a peaceful manner so those 2 camps will sort of battle it out at the conference table tonight here in brussels barbara thank you very much barbara faisal in brussels. turn now to some other stories making news today russia

has offered to host talks to try and hostilities in the caucasus over the disputed region of not going to cover above but armenia and azerbaijan vowed to continue the fighting that's killed more than 100 people since sunday it's their most violent military engagement since the mid 1900. 80 sources say paramilitary groups backed by iran have launched a rocket attack targeting u.s. troops or rockets landed near beale international airport in the semi autonomous kurdistan region of iraq local media say sirens were heard inside a military base housing u.s. troops. the winners of this year's right livelihood award are being announced the award honors those who have contributed to change in sustainability social justice and peace we will now go live to that press conference which is

being held at stockholm's city theater right now 4 winners have been chosen from 182 nominees the laureates are being presented by the executive director. and the vice chair of the ord a money spike back to previous recipients include gretta turnback and edward snowden. right livelihood but it's talking to adam then things like that man knew what at u.t.s. than nothing so through the food i won it on the 1st scene over to come throats still raw personally got to get it but for them yep what it does for the old man's that at the well the nomination process is open to all individuals and organizations those take a. closer look at the winners and their contributions to society lotty cutting in red is a lawyer who defends the rights of indigenous peoples in nicaragua bryan stevenson

is a leading us civil rights lawyer fighting institutional racism on this the isle yet skeet is an activist in belarus who campaigns for freedom and democracy and jailed iranian human rights lawyer so today who has challenged compulsory headscarf laws has also been awarded the right livelihood award. for more on this year's winners let's bring in julia cronin in cologne she's a trustee of the right livelihood award foundation thanks for joining us mr crone and now there are lots of worthy candidates out there who might deserve such an award are are you at all surprised about the laureates chosen this year. well if you accept a choice it's always a tough choice. i'm not really surprised look with better and

i think the u.s. laureate the award winner has actually become some very current issues and the award always tries to balance between very urgent issues and long term shit. what we see you know ron is a laureate which is under tremendous pressure she went home to squire he's basically fighting pro-life right now and what we see in the current right it's a long term struggle to say the communities and the environment for indigenous people so it's i'm not surprised by the topics but the top choice we always have is there's so many issues around the world which really concern us that it's a tough choice in the said belt the war says it honors people who solve global problems in a visionary and exemplary way what you describe as extraordinary and exemplary about the work of this year's winners. i mean they all address topics of justice friedan pritam of the quality they all are joined at the head was very

collaborative approach their work together with others to build alliances that in fact the rights of individuals to change in the case of rights means and to change it in just justice system and they've done that with the perseverance over a long time over 2030 years think about alex the un at ski and belarus who has been working in the basically only large and you know in belarus for 30 years to build the civil society we now see striving for liberty so having this resilience hanging in there as we said it and doing that on a large scale is something which is really think now this year's winners protest human rights violations and better rules say defend political prisoners in iran fight for a land of of indigenous peoples in nicaragua and battle institutional racism in the u.s. those are the 4 main themes that are recognized in these awards are the awards meant

to draw attention to particular causes is this an advocacy exercise. well every every lorry or every word to one of the individuals carries a message i mean in the case of nothing sort of the it's clearly the message to release up from present in the case of brian stevens one to send a time of hope to say we support the fight for more justice and hope a solid history of support this reconsideration efforts in the case of the bed i was loving and it's ringback certainly a message of solidarity with the people that i would so if you were always has a range of effects to a layout to work to to basically educate about the work of the laureate but also to protect the laureate which is certainly the case for lottie coming and writing so it depends on every single case but there's a clear message attached with every single award. and the other conan trustee of

the right lionel heard the word foundation thanks so much. thanks for having me. officials in hong kong are marking the 71st anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china at a flag raising ceremony chief executive carrie lamb hailed her city's quote return to peace she credited hong kong as strict new security law imposed by china with helping to quash massive pro-democracy protests that have been testing relations with beijing despite the crackdown protesters took to the streets but in much lower numbers compared to previous years after authorities banned a protest march amid a growing crackdown on dissent. over more we're joined now by phebe kong who is in hong kong and covering this story phebe for us phebe good to see you what are things looking like on the ground in hong kong today.

one now standing out one of the b.b.c.'s shopping district in downtown hong kong where people came here to enjoy the 1st day of the long weekend but also that happening call us all why you try to all the nice one of the biggest mosque and i protest in recent months because today and that's you know chinese national day and it's a tradition ok to protest but today we feel they only get to like people on the street and some people express a flat on the following that post online but there is also a huge life as a police officer is that people are very hard to gather and the police have already been starting to issue warnings to the public how do people not to say like here is so hot for them to stop the mosque and that. but the call and i say they have all involved people to come out night after the day tonight so we will keep an eye on that and we have mentioned that today is the special day that is the traditional i

post has a phone call and back one year ago i last year. pros have no. what the past want to be shocked when life like trying to put on chinese national day and we have talked to cheer up they said the misconduct police misconduct and large police brutality they have complained about happened the rest stop and take a love story. of gunshots as a protester the 1st in hong kong government's demonstration and the city's history and the chinese through a life changing moment for the 18 year old student told he was shot in the chest during a protest on chinese national day last october a bullet shot by the police nearly took his life last only a few centimeters from his heart. we showed him the.

many protesters including myself. well prepared to make sacrifices and even get wounded when we took to the street. because what i thought of losing my life in this movement. highly but i was lucky enough to survive the gunshot. north all the time died or function. there is going to shot then triggered school strikes now one year later but only a struggling work is more than injuries but also 3 criminal charges by the whole kong government which has sent him behind bars for up to 7 years and other student protests to chopard kwan may face the same sentence he's also among those shocked with life around starship these pills can barely use his space account paying having his spine is fractured a kidney and part of his liver removed trauma looms over his everyday life

attempted robbery obstructing police and the state from custody of the officers to 22 year old is facing at court's time. ok ok the police officer didn't warn me at all it's a reasonable for him to use the most lethal weapon immediately even though it was unarmed i've been so traumatized that i dare not pass by the shooting scene again and i often cried i can't stand for long periods of time and i have to go to the hospital whenever the pain gets to one bearable. police justified firing life bullets as self-defense walking the child caught excessive force home close call to prove to privates prosecution files by an opposition lawmaker over the officer who shot a child but the justice minister took a rare move to intervene at the french request the case is that charges they're planning to pursue an injury claim against the police earlier don't be the same but

they all thought he rejected his legal aid to happen cation. by claiming the gunshot reasonable. doubt to bring what they call rioters to justice. and have been arrested and over prosecuted at the same time not a single. prosecutor. despite numerous might. very easy to manifest the intolerance against dissidents what we protesters do is team to be wrong the authorities sleeplessness troublemakers so when a protester my right to speak up will be suppressed even more severely. the stakes are even higher now as people can be jailed for their speech under the national security law. but i believe the movement isn't over yet. it's just continuing in another form. the students feel

hopeless just as the pro-democracy movement to find their way out in pursuance of justice they was tried every means stone as they as they were free to do so. well our correspondent phoebe kong is still standing by phebe you said that today is a traditional protest day in hong kong as we saw a year ago a protester was shot to expect further clashes between protesters and police today . while on the home front police force like that is a fact and they are ready to see what they possible clashes with we are not sure what they what happened there because people to there to escape to come out today and but on the other hand i am at least 6000 police officers deployed all standing by today for possible action and this is also not a tactic for their 4th he's trying to warn the public not to take this state and

some of the activists have already been invested before they protest for like calling for the actions online and that's a day on the street with so many off the call in this hour more than 5 police that they feel are some on the street and try to stop people from what i was saying at one point on the street and today i bet we will like to have a look on how they could have to go i will go on today as i people are also calling for a shout out to gather shopping more and also at the cost something to be. to be what's next for people like cheeking who we saw in the report there are people who don't accept the status quo and particularly the imposition of the security law from beijing what options do they have. fall on as they have mentioned in the story does think it's way too high now compared to just years so many of them listen to well i step back and not to go

through the front line and think of other ways to continue to act against them especially that were very less like legal ways for them to do so. maybe thank you very much for bringing us up to date. there that was used to be called in hong kong . soccer and by a munich have beaten dortmund in the german super cup to lift yet another trophy of the game is normally held before the new season but it was delayed this year because of the crowd of virus despite the lack of fans the teams produced a high tempo game and it was also a landmark match of a referee. by an munich came out for the super cup against dortmund looking for a thief trophy this year having won every competition they have been in it was also a special game for b.b. on a stein house the only female referee in the men's bond as league she announced before kickoff she was retiring 6 years early for personal reasons. injury prone

don't win captain marco royce started for the 1st time in 259 days and had the 1st big chance. looks almost immediately host diane broke at the other end in a flash and cullen santoli so stole it at the 2nd attempt both sides at last in the bond as leader at the weekend but it took dion just 18 minutes to rally. it was soon to know this time was miller heading in. but naivety from behind the back like gere in the 41 loss at hoffenheim on sunday let dortmund pull one back out of the blue. for a more experienced don't mean line up of late. half time and amid the empty stands because of the coronavirus stein house was having a quiet farewell game by as defense seemed to still be in the dressing room in the

2nd half as don't wind levelled through early. but this by and never gave up and usually to me has been your pits in me of that i am the winner coming in special style on 82 minutes but i don't. fancy chance of a 6 trophy out of 6 this year is set to be dashed by the postponement of the club will cup in december but it is still being a truly remarkable 2020 pounds if lakeside. but it's like a side shot have appointed former boss manuel as their new coach replaces wagner who was sacked after just 2 games of the season bomber arrives at shocker with the club in chaos after 2 defeats to the major financial problems the 41 year old banished out in the bundesliga for 3 seasons before being dismissed in april last

year. in a rainy and canoeist has been boosted in his bid to represent a team of refugees at the tokyo olympics next year so. trains and competes in germany after fleeing his homeland in 2015 nell after a rule change he's one step closer to his dream. is more motivated than ever the reigning refugee. now has a clear way forward to next year's olympics in tokyo he's hoping to represent the refugee teen. and from the international canoe federation. we've now decided it will support site competing for the i.o.c. as refugees. fled iran in 2015 after taking a selfie in front of milan cathedral at home that was viewed as him converting to christianity punishable by death germany gay fans a place to train and compete he's since been working hard both out on the water and

in the complicated process of severing ties with the iranian rowing team who wants him to avoid a conflict with iran the international community federation had insisted its rules mentioned can grant him refugee status even though he has documents proving otherwise. this was a hard journey 5 years long i just cry it's if i want to go to the olympics i have to give 100 percent to be there. now fazli needs to meet the sporting requirements the selection ultimately in the hands of the i.o.c. . whoever has such a story behind them clearly deserves the support of international sporting bodies therefore we hope that common sense prevails. seek. after the sandbags hopes the federation will keep to its word so he can concentrate fully on

his sports. just to remind of our top story for you this hour authorities in belarus suspended independent news outlet in for self foreign journalists at the top the web site has covered the ongoing protests against the reelection of authoritarian leader alexander lukashenko. you're watching news from berlin up next focus on europe with a closer look at the bill as roman women standing up to the regime things which.

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credo no chemicals. and his kind was. a step in. how to. stretch. the students on the past don't stand a chance. of training successful. judge me. starts october 15th w. hello and welcome to focus on europe thanks for joining us today europe's last remaining strongman is clinging to his seat that other o.c.n. leader alexander lukashenko me is doing everything he can to remain in power

although the e.u. doesn't recognize him as the legitimate leader of the country he was.