this is date of any new flight from birth in china condemns as fast as decision by oppositional. my kids in hong kong to resign on the mass of politicians took the step to protest after 4 of their colleagues were expelled from parliament. also coming up, we follow the take in trying to track and trace new infections in turkey's largest city in stamboul, and look into claims that the government is trying to hide the truth, scale of the crisis and violence flares in the polish capital far right. protesters

clashed with riot police in walsall, as thousands rallied to mark poland's independence. plans, the president elect and noodle the plumber seen. we'll see how us soft power is impacting much time in china's capital beijing. i'm rebecca written this welcome to the program. china has condemned the mass resignation of pro-democracy law. make his in hong kong. as quote political fast and a blatant challenge, the opposition bloc stood down on mass after 4 of their colleagues were expelled from parliament for china, described as being unpatriotic. who dared outweighed the bad they were the last remaining pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong. now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to national

security by beijing. it is yet another blow for their pro-democracy movement. or to go that they got all had taken the decision made by the national people's congress today. it is extremely ridiculous. it shows that the central government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. dennis kwok is one of the 4, expelled lawmakers. he told d.w. that despite the setback, they are not giving up. but i think he can still feel the passion, local community, the hearts of people, the aspirations or the rule of law and progress. i think that is not going to go begging, defended the new resolution, and denied its restricting hong kong special freedoms. they were implemented in

1997 after the city was handed back to china from british rule. true or not. tell me where you went, you think? didn't do that before. it is a necessary measure in order to maintain the rule of law in hong kong. and the constitutional order of the special autonomous region. where you verify it is rational and reasonable. and in line with the constitution and laws, they recently moved to clamp down on opposition, voices in hong kong by imposing a national security law. after months of anti-government protests, hong kong semi autonomous status was originally guaranteed until 2047. but for some, the end date has already arrived by data joyously in hong kong choice. china says the mass resignation as an open challenge. could we expect repercussions

from beijing? yes, although the non-stress nation off the pro-democracy can it's expected and with encapsulation all but the hong kong and macau affairs office released a statement today saying that it is a political, fos, and an open challenge against the central government. so a lot of people expect that in future elections, the ones resigning today will not be allowed to run. and 8 elections will be oppositional. micah's have vowed to fight on, but what options has the pro-democracy movement left? not many options. left quality of pro-democracy movement because the road to democratic election in syria, the step let's run to the last i just bought by beijing sikri from now on,

anyone who is deemed unpatriotic or politically incorrect could be ousted from the legislature. so getting into the a legislature would not be meaningful, fought the fight for democracy and take off on the movement on the street under the national security law, imposed by beijing in july. going onto the streets has become more and more dangerous on that then how are people, how hong kong is reacting to the imposition of this new little from china? i think most hong kong people are prepared for what it's doing that this qualification off the pro-democracy law makers. but then people are also very shocked and angered by beijing's move because it is a huge paradigm shift that the largest later were no longer have an opposition

force in the council and not even more direct democrats, asshole or a moron choice lee in hong kong. thanks very much for the update. let's look at some other stories making headlines around the world now. time for you in vanco has lashed the philippines. rescue teams were overwhelmed and narrow. came a city close to the capital manila where around half the houses have been flooded. it's the 3rd typhoon to hit the philippines within as many weeks. the storm has now weekend and is heading towards vietnam. protesters have taken to the streets for a 3rd day in armenia, calling for the resignation of the prime minister. he sparked anger by giving up large parts of the disputed new going to karabakh region in order to seal a peace agreement in the ongoing conflict with neighboring azerbaijan. a summit on libya's future has achieved

a breakthrough at the un back talks in tunisia, warring parties sketched out a roadmap to elections within 18 months. the negotiations of the latest push to end a decade of violence in the country more on covert, 19. now turkey is one of many countries saying a big increase in the number of new infections found as in other places. many are letting their guard down despite pressure from officials to stick to the rules. but opposition politicians accuse the government of hiding the true scale of the outbreak. as julieann reports from istanbul, the city of 16000000, in which the corona virus is spreading. and one of the teams that are fighting to stop it was the last image on as a dentist, at least she was until the pandemic started it. she's been a contact traces since march 1 of around 35000 in turkey. yeah,

and if you're in your book, seen from here, the size of the city kelly scary. and i sometimes wonder where this pandemic is headed. but as a doctor, i have a responsibility. i try to think positively and knowing that i help people is what motivates me and keeps me going there on the tracing team manages around 10 house calls a day. they work in shifts almost around the clock. the goal is always the same track down test and isolate those who have been exposed to someone with covered 1000 and all of this as quickly as possible. google's 1st case today is the collect says all family. the mother recently tested positive. now the father has symptoms to could you call it will clear the clutter. if the test is

positive, gergen will also try to trace his contacts. the whole family has to stay at home for the next 14 days. after each visit, protective clothing has to be changed. job is time consuming and strenuous but it's worth it. she says. few countries expound at their contact tracing capacity to the extent turkey did these teams with key to slowing the spread of the virus in spring health officials say, but now like elsewhere in europe, the number off infections here is on the rise again as in many other countries, people's vigilance here has slackened in a recent survey. more than half of the respondents in turkey said the coronavirus does not affect a worry them. and critics also blame the government for this lack of concern. because the health ministry no longer reports the number of new infections every

day, but only the number of symptomatic patients john uncuffed on jolo of the opposition. c.h.p. says the government is hiding. the real scope of the pandemic is thought will because will cost so slim. here in istanbul alone, the number of cases is 20 times higher than the tally from the ministry of health from. i'm saying this with regret, but the figures and information we have given are not correct or units who know image on his on her next house call. that she does not want to take part in political discussions. she knows the debate about the numbers, but doesn't want to get involved. that more and more people disregard the coronavirus rules frustrates her being, which is surely good. it makes me sad. we are putting so much effort into this. but what's the point?

if so many act as if nothing can happen to that one. and if this doesn't change, we won't see an end to this pandemic sticky because of goog and hopes that she will soon be able to work as a dentist. but she also knows that her new job will be needed for quite a while. i'm joined now by dr. emmanuel cope of bianco. he's director of health at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. don't take out a bag of thanks for talking to do it. vella contact tracing was seen as a cave fact kept to contain the virus earlier in the year. many countries did a good job of expanding their capacity as we just saw there in turkey. but now numbers are on the rise again, is contact tracing, just not working. contact tracing remains the key to stop the always needs to be looked at with testing in isolation and part what happens when

the numbers are going up so fast and indicators are so large that the system is simply not functioning well anymore. that doesn't mean they're going to treat single testing is not important, is that we need to bring down the numbers and then step up even for their own test contact tracing and testing capacity in the countries. what do you say then to those who claim that measures like contact tracing are hurting the foundations of democracy? i totally disagree. i think tracing the ease that used key to stop the epidemic, of course, needs to be done in the absolute protection of all data. and information on all the people and outs why it's very important that these is done by professionals or people that are very well well trade. but if we want to break this chain like you, then you are, if you don't mix contact tracing like this is solution and quarantine are critical tools that we cannot do away with. let's move on to the vaccine, which, you know,

has raised hopes will embrace a new use. the e.u. has a great buy 300000000 doses of the vaccine. will we say what we say that even distribution among countries? well, there's been a lot of efforts to put in place systems to ensure equal distribution is unlikely that we'll see that happening. we need to continue advocating. that's what the red cross that does for that to happen within countries. so that the people who are particularly at risk of having a 1st step and also across countries in the world to make sure that they really income countries, different settings are not forgotten. and if people eat those countries are not the last to receive it. and it's, it's a big political fight that we all need to really go into to ensure that people have access to a vaccine in an equal way. and. and in a recent interview, he said,

we ask our ments to act with speed, carriage and inclusiveness. what do you mean by that speed because when, when the numbers are rising so fast, you need to move foster to put did the measures in place rapidly as the lockdown measures and, and they foster you are the more effective these measures are inclusiveness because you really need to take care of the most the most fragile ones in not only for the virus also the most fragile ones, the most well, number one from an economic point of view. and these systems off of social protection of soup for to, for dick, i think, result, people that are without work at the moment that is just as important as they are physical protection for the people who are going to get get sick. and so that is what we are really asking for speed and inclusiveness to at all levels in the societies. i'm on your own campaign bank underwriter of health, international federation of red cross, and red crescent societies. thank you very much. thank you.

france is also fighting to control a 2nd wave of covert. 9 tain. daily infection numbers are the highest in europe, and yet the lock down france imposed is less strict. during the 1st wave, the government is trying to strike a balance between protecting health and preserving the economy. but not everybody is happy about that approach. there was reports from paris, even under lockdown, the french are taking to the streets as opposed to doing the 1st 1000 wave schools here are staying open. but teachers don't feel safe. we have between $20.25 pupils per class. we are trying to impose social distancing. but in our classrooms, we canot may have a distance of 40 centimeters between each pupil and that she's the most similar we were hoping the government would dream for senator kerry measures, but they haven't or at least not sufficiently. so we don't understand that. we fear

the government is abandoning us to lash out. they are getting support from their pupils who have been blocking school entrances and posting videos online that show a lack of social distancing. also unlike during the 1st coded $1000.00 ways, more shops open and large parts of france's industry are still up and running. and yet, this is still one of europe's strictest. lockdowns with people only allowed out one hour a day and only within a radius of one kilometer of their homes. most french think the government was right to confine them. but many criticize the method. i don't understand why big supermarkets are no longer allowed to sell books, clothes or toys, just because small shops that sell the same things are closed. the government is just not good at explaining itself. with this group cause lots of unemployment and

bankruptcy. why are they leaving big supermarkets? closing smaller shops, megastores often take in hundreds of clients and small shops, only one or 2. they are much safer. and yet the government is staying the course. even though the spread of the epidemic has been slowing down. takes a new and we're seeing 1st indications that the measures are producing an effect, but it is too early to lift restrictions. the situation is still very grave and the epidemic is continuing to gain ground. the number of people in intensive care is there going up with more than 93 percent of i think now the government throws off because it's the breaking point from primary 3 and many people here they might have to spend christmas let's

take a look at some other developments in the pandemic. germany has recorded nearly 22000 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. and the death toll in the u.k. has passed 50000. that's higher than any other european country. new restrictions have been announced in new york restaurants bars, and james will have to close a 10 pm and private gatherings and now limited to 10 people. and the organizers of the tokyo olympics next year, say athletes won't be required to isolate for 14 days. the games have already been delayed by a year polish nationalists and right wing extremists have clashed with police at a march in the capital. warsaw, the rally to mark poland's independence day went ahead despite a ban on gatherings imposed during the pandemic. scuffles between the police and far right. protesters in warsaw police in riot gear,

use pepper spray and rubber bullets. to push back the demonstrators after they threw stones and firecrackers thousands of fight, a ban on public gatherings. due to the coronavirus pandemic, and marched on warsaw streets to mark poland's independence day. the far right groups who organized the march had asked protesters to take part in their cars to respect social distancing. many stuck to the plan, others parked their cars and continued on foot. marchers, waves banners with n.t.l. g.b.t. messages chanted slogans of god, honor and homeland and calls for more sovereignty. for poland. i call on the government to start behaving like the government of an independent state to start behaving in a sovereign way to stop kneeling in front of the capitals of brussels, berlin, and washington. the holiday commemorates

polish independence after world war one. but in recent years, massive marches organized by far right groups have frequently led to clashes with left wing groups and police. organizers say the marches are a display of patriotism. but for many in the country, see our celebration of nationalism and far right extremism has some more headlines for you now. filing clashes broke out in peru's capital, lima after the famous head of congress, manal marino was sworn in as the new president, the protests follow the removal of the previous leader mahmoud his carriage. demonstrators accused of hijacking the presidency and plunging peru into crisis. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen his longtime clane as his white house. chief of staff, klein was a key figure during the presidential campaign and has already served as biden's top

lieutenant during barack obama's 1st term. when biden was vice president, the us president and president elect have attended separate veterans' day events. donald trump attended a race laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery. it was his 1st official public appearance since losing the election. joe biden marked the day that honors servicemen and women at the korean war memorial in philadelphia. china has yet to congratulate u.s. president elect joe biden on his victory saying the outcome would be determined by u.s. laws and procedures. but there is one place in the capital, beijing that's already profiting from a biden bounce. that's a restaurant that he visited back in 2011. this noodle joint in downtown beijing has been popular for years with local residents and tourists. but recently, a new group of visitors as shown up national and international media all came here

yesterday by accident. but today i've just asked how many johnny is that? how here that's not a starbucks surprise for me as for the reason is america's new president elect in 2011, joe biden, america's then vice president had lunch and then president, we felt very honored to say that he had his lunch and talk to our chinese customers, as i felt he was a very decent and easy going person, just say mrs. e., i was father opened this traditional beijing restaurant in 1996. mr. biden's visit the restaurant has become well known beyond the city. this is ya does not want to talk politics, but her preferences are clear enough to break down because biden king jr, restaurant many people in china got to know us by what will make him happy out. they

know he came job place to try traditional beijing dishes and they wanted to try them out themselves only if it. yeah, that's why we feel very positive about him. he might even say we are supportive change. the restaurant serves traditional beijing dishes noodles, pork buns and live a stew. it's a simple neighborhood joined the chinese public quickly noted the modest choice at the time. biden paid just 12 u.s. dollars for a lunch of 5 people. this really shows how nice the food is here. it means chinese cuisine has already made it to the world. the u.s. and china may now be pitted against each other as rivals on the world stage when it comes to looting diplomacy. and this is your thread through this coming out with a noun to a story of bravery and basketball in somalia. it takes courage for women to take

part in the sport. many face death threats from extremists and anger from their own families, simply for playing the game. they love basketball practice in mogadishu. in blistering heat, it's a tough routine for the all female team. however, it's not only these conditions that make it hard. most of the girls come here against the wishes of their family and there's also the constant threat of attack by gunmen who think women should not play sport publicly. mogadishu is risky, we cannot openly say we are going to play. but we put our playing clothes and shoes and bags and carry them like that to the field. and we pretend we're going to school or university measure, despite the insecurity and with no government at the carriages also thoughts are we still love playing basketball or hit the house? democrats ran as some men and the coach is happy to have a space to play at all,

but no one supports us and gives us a quick back. and we do not have anyone supporting the players with uniforms balls and shoes. we even do not have a proper court. they may have a good idea that the local commissioner, however, backs them and offer the space for free. other than that, it's enthusiasm and dedication that keeps them going. before islam is the tech surge to somalia had a national women's team. and as or more i met was a player for them. this enables her to pursue her passion and help the girls come back and i decided to train girls after i saw that the girls enjoyed and needed someone to train them. this is also voluntary organizations. so i came to train them for dowser trained hard. she would love to make it into the national team,

but hasn't been one for the past 7 years. for now, the dream of one day being able to play in the open again. and maybe starting teams across somalia keeps the girls going up. well, penguins might not be the 1st thing that come to mind when you think of south africa. and in fact, the once abundant say bird is only holding on by a flip up. there are only 13000 breeding pairs left in the wild, but south african researches hope they can stop them from going extinct. they're planning to release dozens of hand red chicks here along the west and caves. the goal is for the birds to form a new colony and bring the african penguin back from the brink. our minder of the top story we're following for you. china has condemned a mass resignation of pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong. they walked out in

protest at the dismissal of 4 colleagues before was sacked under a new law imposed by beijing, which qualifies politician disqualifies politicians and dating to be threats to national security. that's what you're up to date. next out. focus on europe. looks at islam is terrorism in france. i'm back with more news headlines at the top of the hour. thanks for watching.

5 years after the attack on the but a clam in paris, his son was an assassin, daughter was a victim. both of their fathers wrote a book together, a lesson in dialogue and tolerance. at a time when, as long as terrorists are killing again, focused on europe next on t.w.

into the conflict zone. with tim sebastian, britain's prime minister barak's johnson is on the fire once again, not least for members of his own conservative party. my guest this week here in london is one of his junior m.p.'s been mouthful lami elected to parliament 3 years ago. can mr. jones, in the whole team's cullen slide, in the opinion, polls, and what will the party do if you caught conflicts of 60 minutes,, phone, d.w., people knocking for garbage. there are many answers. there are many reasons

and there are many alternatives to make up your own mind. d.w. made for minds a warm welcome to focus on europe. glad you could join us today. recent attacks in european cities like defaced paris, nice and vienna, show that islamist terrorism is still a threat. the attacks reveal to europeans how vulnerable they are and how difficult it is to protect the population from acts of terror. special forces in at.