this is a w's line from shock and mourning in germany after a car plows through pedestrians in a shopping area a baby is among 5 people killed in syria city center police say the attack was intentional on the driver's motives unclear also on the program 3 prominent hong kong pro-democracy activists. will be sentenced today but in last year's protests they face up to 5 years in prison as the clamp down against beijing's critics groups.

and for them to the program. a german man will appear in court today after driving his car into pedestrians in the western city of shia police have confirmed that 5 people were killed in the 9 week old baby is amongst the dead the driver a local man is in custody no motive has yet been established. as a city in mourning outside candles were lit at a makeshift memorial for the victims. and inside the city's cathedral a service for those killed and injured. i think this is the worst black day in the history it to yes since world war 2 we are

all used to seeing these kinds of pictures happening all over the world but no one ever thought it would happen here we were very much mistaken as we painfully found out today. a baby was one of the 5 killed when a 51 year old local man drove an s.u.v. for around one kilometer to the center tria hitting people at random authorities said he was stopped by police. social media footage showed the man being arrested investigators said he had consumed a significant amount of alcohol. and i'm not going to talk to us we have no indications that the motive is of a terrorist political or religious nature i know all the dispute. escaped there are indications that there could be a psychiatric problem involved let's move on to shock which is concrete.

as is the case across germany christmas markets have been canceled in tear but despite the quiet atmosphere police urged people to stay away from the city center on tuesday evening. welcome this is quite a thing to. indeed it is there is an air of sadness and trauma as you walk the streets of tear today right in front of me already many people have gathered and put together some candles lit candles in memory of the victims of this attack and i spoke to one man yesterday who saw one of the bodies and said he couldn't even get to sleep last night because it just shocked him that this would happen in his city so in just the general atmosphere of just sadness and trauma today. and what can you tell us about the victims. there have been

authorities have identified 5 victims so far including one which was a child under the age of around 9 months old and. some of the victims have also been as old as 73 a woman who died also and. at the moment we don't know much more than. sex and their age but but we may hear more details from authorities later they have also been more than a dozen injured some of them seriously but again we're still waiting to hear from authorities about what is the situation with them. and i want to spend said about the suspect has been handed. so the man is a lifelong resident of tree here authorities said that over the past couple days though he was residing in the in a vehicle he was living out of

a vehicle we don't know if that is the vehicle that he used for this act which according to authorities was not his but may have been linked to him. again we don't know much about the victim except that he's also a 51 year old and authorities of the public not to speculate about the motive they said there are no there are no clear evidence to suggest that this is a politically motivated attack again as we mentioned in the report he was apprehended severe heavily intoxicated right so where does the investigation go from here well i believe authorities today the man is going to be in court i think authorities are just trying to figure out what is the situation what prompted him to take a vehicle to access this pedestrian area right behind me start swerving the exact thing that we're in what appears to be deliberately trying to target pedestrians or would be shoppers in this area this area is just it's

a shopping area so people are out there trying to get some early shopping for christmas especially since the coronavirus pandemic has as effectively cancelled christmas markets across germany and also in sri. thanks for joining us on this. thing we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world the u.s. justice department says it's found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election a statement from u.s. attorney general william is a blow to president trump's efforts to challenge the election result as he refuses to concede to joe biden. hungary a member of the european parliament has resigned after breaking the lockdown rules by telling what's been described as a gay sex party in brussels yourself who was voted for anti l.g.b. team legislation in hungary admitted attending a party which is broken up by police he belongs to hungary's ruling conservative

party and is an ally of prime minister viktor orban. pharmaceutical partners pfizer and the bound tac have submitted their covered 19 vaccine to the european union for approval the european medicines agency says the vaccine could be approved for use in europe within weeks if the data in the application is sufficient new zealand has declared a climate emergency in plans to carbon neutral government by 20255 minutes it is in the odd didn't told parliament that an action is needed for the sake of future generations the country joins 32 others who have issued emergency declarations over the global climate crisis. now to hong kong where of course is due to sentence 3 pro-democracy activists after they pleaded guilty to charges related to last year's anti-government protests of most problems most of which joshua wall a just $24.00 he's been one of the main actors in the opposition for many years.

hong kong $24.00 team the umbrella movement takes to the streets for months of protests spurred by a government plan to prescreen candidates for local elections joshua won was front and center. everybody here has to stay alert but this demonstration has been peaceful and the police haven't bothered us much but now they have brought tear gas and plastic bullets we have to do all we can to protect ourselves. he was arrested at the age of $171.00 became an international political figure. in 2016 he founded a new political party. failing to define hong kong's long term future long himself was too young to be a candidate though that didn't stop him from trying to run for office. in $29000.00 he was jailed for 2 months but went free in time to join widespread

protests over a proposed new extradition law to mainland china this time around the demonstrations were much more violent wang was arrested along with thousands of others. in july 2020 things went from bad to worse for pro-democracy activists china passed the new security law for hong kong that made wang's demos sisco party illegal the party disbanded and wong went to trial for his activities in last year's protests undeterred he told d.w. in a recent interview he would not back down. recent lost their 1st activism and thinking critically even is such difficult heightening what didn't and doesn't all of us rest this is last summer and 2000 people were prosecuted it is still important for us to stay and fight despite his defiance a long sentence will likely keep him out of the public eye for several years.

straight to hong kong and to speak with a member of the protest movement that he doesn't want to live a of his identity so we're calling him calling him a welcome to see w what's likely to happen today it's. so sorry. you mean about the colts and course yes. right yes i don't think the courts will be ruling in that they thought and once again joshua long is other called wraps up being made out of something a large admission but i despite all the sadness i think you put it very well it's important for us now to keep our heads and to move forward because backing down is not an option and. have you had any contact with her and if the activists being sentenced today. rises so how worried are you about your own safety. well it's i think out most harmful most

likely and especially having such a spade and i guess my left lost the with the. on power most of the hong kong us to have also been at least at the state thing but. it's more about this more and get and see i'd say i haven't seen what's been happening for the past week. so given the crackdown that is happening given the lower changes that are happening at can your pro-democracy fight continue. definitely yeah i think domestic resistance has changed its form but it's still going very strong very much so. although another more common in cities are arrested i do believe and i have seen that's a lot of other independent actors as they're working about to push with one solid in the city and aside from that on the international stage a lot of this work is being done by such as the x. them system member nathan more people like them that's the exciting part of. this

hope i think but we're in a time of covert now where it's where lots of governments are acting against crowds gathering so what sort of resistance can you put up under these sort of circumstances. thank you so even though the crowd gatherings and now and and it might seem like everything is now has now quiet down. and i think organizing people in tetration saw essential end of the lockdown for larger even larger voices to be heard that is something that can be done so organizing people that i think a lot of that work can be done there. silence is clearly not going to back down this why are you continuing. well. they really are for me personally i can't speak for anyone but the 1st thing with

the. it's a duty to serve. uncle nation i think in the past year it's been. in the hearts and minds of the hong kong people the sense of nationhood and so at this point more than out of antecedents and just before the protests this is more. of a defeatist i think and that's the motivation that's keeping us forward and yes it's a hot fight china is cracking down on us and not just us australia on a lot of other sufferance he s offer nations as well but yet it's only it only shows how afraid the. government is now the out there now losing that patients losing their home and this is not a time to strike i think so given that i just wonder how long you can continue this fight because again clearly beijing has more time and more resources and is determined that it must win this battle. yes. so.

of course. our time is very limited and that's why we have to act. we see that a lot of. a lot of brainwashing work is being done in our education system in hong kong and i think it's fair to say that. these couple of generations also passionate use of the last generations of passionate youths that will see and yeah i think as soon as these couple of generations die out the movement probably and the stats and i mean to you because there's nobody else left here to sustain the unity of the nation but. yeah but there's i think. you just have to yeah ok well thank you so much for joining us. there about them thank you. piers alone in captivity for years but now the elephant is known as the world's

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