this is the end of the news live from berlin 3 pro-democracy activists await sentencing in hong kong. to face up to 5 years in prison for their pots in last year's protests as the clampdown again spacings critics. also on the program 5 people including a baby and dead after a car plows into pedestrians in a shopping area in the german city of st it police say the attack was intentional but that the driver's motives are unclear.

i'm still gail welcome to the program. a court in hong kong is due to sentence 3 pro-democracy activists after they pleaded guilty to charges relating to last year's anti-government protests leading pro-democracy activist joshua was appearing alongside. ivan lot for inciting an illegal assembly in june beijing imposed a national security law on hong kong after the territory was rocked by mass protests critics say the law is being used to silence dissidents well let's go straight to hong kong and speak with the top you correspondent a few kong. that's clearly not. bad let's see if we can there she is welcome phoebe what more can you tell us about this verdict. well we haven't got the verdict they ask the court hearing has already started

a. lesson in our. way but it's just announced actual justice and as you have admission in the report the just along is now facing 3 charges for the inciting and all the guys in also taking part in and saw. the prudes assembly back in chile in 2019 a shell leases the massive anti-government movement spoke out last year so i just want the senate. to press 2 charges including inciting and all the lies and we authorized assembly of all the prosecutor to often though i thought this to the charge so i just always now facing up to 2 factions and wish i could like bring him dissenting behind i'm the good assembly back in chile in 2019 a shell leases the massive anti-government movement spoke out last year so i just

want the senate to reputed to press 2 charges including inciting and all the lies and we authorized assembly of all the prosecutor we too are often though i have this to charge so i just always now facing up to 2 factions and wish i could like bring him dissenting behind up to the west wing and also the 2 other leading activists also plead guilty to the charges they face so we're still waiting for word benteke and just all one has already mentioned like before that he is not optimistic to the sentence that he expects the sense of the sentence will be much heavier than those he raised in cost ok phoebe stay with us and we will find out more about joshua wall and then we'll come back to. hong kong 2014 the umbrella movement takes to the streets for months of protests

spurred by a government plan to prescreen candidates for local elections. was front and center . everybody here has to stay alert 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 wang 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 wong 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 difficulty timing what can and does and all of us were arrest this is last summer and 2000 people including me were prosecuted 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. i spoke about point with phoebe in hong kong phoebe we're presuming that he's going

to be the 3 of them are going to be a sense instead to jail what sort of terms are they looking at. well the charges they are facing since i think all the icing on the whole though i see him being which. carries a maximum sentence of 5 years and facing more than one child just out that means they could face a more and like i think if they have to do this and things like separate they. want to actually predict. exactly how many years they're going to think that behind bars that it's quite likely they will stand to tell and we have that we might very mind this is not the 1st time but just how long to be increased since he has already been jailed or 2 times over the past 2 years the charges he pays back

in the movement but that only brought him like 2 to 3 month jail sentence in the past but this time here expect he will be sent to jail for lay over a year old maybe several years so this is that expression and given the circumstances in hong kong nowadays that he or she may not optimistic that the court may try to impose a heavy us into this too late to do to as deter people from committing such crimes like because this is clearly beijing so i think a very clear message about hong kong democracy. yeah and this is this will be and not a major blow to the search and came as well i. see it as a kind of trade that for them to crack down on the opposition and the governments movements

and also the reading act is this just the wall is the most high profile goes to be sentenced to jail they if he is today he will be the most like hypo. a leading activist it shares things the massive and the m. and m. movements so this is really late and i want to. thank you for you become in hong kong thank you 'd. a little earlier i spoke with pro-democracy activist in the territory he didn't want to reveal his identity and i asked him if the movement would continue despite beijing's hardening stance. definitely yeah i think domestic resistance has changed its form but it's still going very strong very much so. although it's also long and other more common in cities are arrested i do believe and i have seen that

a lot of other independent actors as they're working about to push this with one solid and dissenting 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 it's ok 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 darlings are now and and it might seem like everything is now has now quite down. 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 organize it before hand i think a lot of that work can be done there. 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. 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 empathy and sympathy for the protest is a small. defeatist i think and that's the motivation that's keeping us all and yes it's a hot flight china's cracking down on us and not just us australia on the loss of other sufferance e.s.l. for nations as well but yet it's only it only shows how afraid the. government is now the out there now losing that patients are losing their homes and

this is now a time to strike. 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 fast 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 generations of passionate youths of the last generations of passionate youths that we 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 is hope i think it's you just have to.

ok well thank you so much for joining us. no problem thank you. will appear in court today after driving his car into pedestrians and a western city of train a police have confirmed that 5 people were killed including. 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. just a fraction i think this is the worst black day in the history it ts 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 who very much mistaken as we've 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 for that 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. if there are indications that there could be a psychiatric problem involved. sushant wishes it bit. as is the case across germany christmas markets have been canceled but despite the

quiet atmosphere police urged people to stay away from this is the center on tuesday evening. that's going to try and join d.w.b. for to santas well this is quite a thing to a city like this. indeed it is as you walk the streets as i was walking the streets coming here today you could see that there's just an air of sadness and trauma i spoke to one man last night who said that he had seen the bodies he said he wanted to stay out here because he couldn't get to sleep it's just been a traumatic experience for him for witnesses but also for the nation i mean german chancellor angela merkel even said you know this incident has made her incredibly sad now if you were able to look behind me you would see that people some people have started to gather and light candles in memory of the victims. but in general it is just a sad day for everyone here what's known of the victims. so

what we know about the victims is that authorities have confirmed 5 people have died more than a dozen others injured of the deaths one of them was a 9 week old baby and her father a 45 year old man and that the mother and their one year old one and a half year old child are also injured at the hospital so for this family it is just been a destructive experience and but authorities have yet to release more information one of the one of the victims is also a 73 year old woman so in general the age just it's a massive range across the victims. and the police have a suspect in custody. indeed they do they have a 50 they believe the perpetrator that they apprehended yesterday was is a 5051 year old man he is

a lifelong resident of true authority said over the past couple days he had been living out of a vehicle it is it is not known whether that was the same vehicle that he used to plow into people right behind me and what we do know is that he was living in there for the past couple days the vehicle is not he's already said it could have been lent to. but the moment they don't know much more and they've also asked the public to not speculate about a motive the one thing is clear the police said they haven't found evidence to suggest that this was a politically motivated attack so for now they're not looking into this as a terrorist attack but they are saying that it was deliberate he did swerve his vehicle right behind me in digs out for him deliberately intentionally trying to target pedestrians so what else is being said about the investigation at this stage . what today the man will be showing up in court and it will be the judge's decision whether he will be going to be detained within the

jail or he'll be moving towards a cycle of psychological institution. essentially the investigation they're saying that there are going to continue efforts looking into the psychological. doing a psychological evaluation of the suspect and seeing whether or not he was in his right mind when he committed this deliberate act thank you for the us. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world the u.s. justice department has found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election the statement from u.s. attorney general william is a blow to president efforts to challenge the election result as he refuses to concede to joe biden. harry a member of the european parliament has resigned after breaking lockdown rules by attending was been described as a gay sex party in brussels yourself sire who has previously backed anti l g b

t legislation in hungary admitted attending a party which was broken up by police he longs to hungary's ruling conservative party and is an ally of prime minister viktor orban. new zealand has declared a clarity emergency and pledge that its public sector will be carbon neutral by 2025 prime minister just in the are told parliament urgent action is needed for the sake of future generations the country joins 32 others who have issued emergency declarations over the global climate crisis. the un refugee agency has appealed to infield here for access 296000 eritrean refugees in the north and to grow region there are concerns about possible food shortages following reports of attacks abductions and force recruitment of refugees the nearly month long war has displaced thousands of people into neighboring countries like sudan d.w.

africa correspondent barrier will travel to the border region. they were lucky after crossing the border from ethiopia to sudan last up or han and her family found refuge in this home the nearby campus already overcrowded there they would have had to sleep outside on the ground. that the mayor was and i think the owner of this house so much because she doesn't know was she doesn't know anything about us but because we were neighbors across the border she took us in with more than 50 people. alone this she and never forget the moment she realized she and her 9 children had to flee their home talented guy. well you know we cried and our children cried with us they wept in front of us the shooting started while we were eating ice and we just had to leave. even me.

6 families live here together that is more than 50 people in one house among them a tourist bar he and her husband when the fighting in 2 guys started they tried to bring their children to safety. and when the shooting started i gave my children to our neighbors who had a car to take them with them since then she hasn't heard anything from them because of our communications blackout and to get i she can't call the neighbors or people in her village. my children are always on my mind whenever i close my eyes i see them the owner of the house a study day by him it's not the 1st time that she has welcomed refugees in her home in the 960 s. she house people who fled the war in. c these people came to us and those all we don't have much money but they are our neighbors so we have to hurt them many

residents of this already poor region have again welcome to take up the refugees in their homes some of us out only others provide food and water however the influx of people here has resulted in instant price hikes residents tell us vegetables fruit means anything water has become much more expensive still they try to help as much as they can for it's the 2nd time that she had to flee her home she doesn't want the same for her children. i hope my children will have a better life will not become like us i wish they'd go to school study do their jobs in stay away from politics it isn't and then. 30 days even i am says her guests can stay as long as they need. there's a raw brewing between south korea and china not over territory this time but over the fermented dish kimchi the un says kim she is the korean name for preserved vegetable seasoned with spices and fermented seafood the chinese state run

newspaper global times sr china already has an international certification for it but what china actually received certification for power outside that's chinese style salted fermented vegetables and that is and that's got frustration at south korea's agriculture ministry bubbling over. oh you know if the saying holds true that you are what you eat then koreans are kimchi 95 percent of them eat the spicy pickled cabbage every day that's 2000000 tons annually even its preparation is a celebrated ritual so reports that china had secured international certification for a comparable product was something many koreans found hard to digest so we're going to take you to i reckon reading a story that china now says kimchee is theirs and that they're making an international standard for its absurd i'm worried that they might steal other

cultural goods not just kimchi to go to. a similar chinese pickle called a was recently certified by the international organization for standardization or i.s.o. which pointed out the standard does not apply to kimchee. but china's state run global times devoured the news hailing the new standard for the quote kimchi industry led by china caught by surprise china's foreign ministry recognized the pecan situation and called for more diplomacy you know t v i mean is there an argument about this. not aware of this. that i think there has been some disagreement online has is that right. question if you wish you'd go and ask our colleagues in the south korean embassy about where's the argument why i think we should have more cooperation and sharing. the perceived cultural and

cullen area appropriation also has some koreans asking who's to blame. i don't think that korea's handling the situation that well it's important to make our own food appealing to people around the world and if we don't do that that's our problem not china. that kimchi clash may be cooling down but it's still packed with emotion. streams from breaking news just reaching us here in the u.k. has become the 1st country in the world to approve the pfizer bomb tech coronavirus vaccine it will be made available across the country from next week it was produced by the way it is produced by the u.s. drugs make a fire and germany's bomb tech is still awaiting regulator approval across the rest of the world. we'll have a look at the latest developments in the corona virus of pandemic starting with germany where the public health institute has reported $487.00 deaths over 24 hours

and so highest daily figure so far officials say they are expecting the daily death to trend upwards following a steep rise in new infections portugal's prime minister antonio castor says securing a vaccine for all european countries will be a top priority when his country takes over the rotating presidency of the e.u. in january and media reports say japan plans to allow large numbers of overseas visitors to attend next year's tokyo olympics without mandatory vaccinations or quarantine as provided they submit negative test results and download the tracking apps. well a pandemic house for old much of life as we know it to a standstill including the famous gondola is a venice and normally the boat would be busy ferrying tourists around the city's canal but with barely any international travel an important source of income has dried up leaving the cities gondoliers desperate for work. they

are the symbol of the city 1st centuries gondolas have been an integral part of life in venice but the covert 19 pandemic has emptied its famous canals gondoliers can only sit and wait for the tide to turn in their favor. to the place and there's no money coming in this last summer was a disaster international tourism has gone from america china japan australia canada before the whole world came to venice. in the past millions visited the city each year now gone to lir's don't expect more than one booking a day. since venice relies on tourism job alternatives are few and far between. but i hope we will recover in the short term but we can't make any predictions because we have no control over when

this pandemic will end this virus which has hit the whole world and which has hit venice so hard as well. i mean 10 commander in. a place that was once struggling with an overflow of tourists is now fighting to keep its economy afloat without them. that's a chill up today to have more fear up the top of our kick off is sat next yet she got all the way to set news every nation around the clock on our website at state duckie dot com.

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