but it took place shortly after the national security law took effect and for china's rulers and was a threat one they say was manipulated from abroad. a small number of countries are vilifying china by spreading lies about territories including hong kong they're up to their usual tricks of politicizing and weaponize it was human rights issues to interfere in other country's internal affairs and we will resist this. the activists taken to court in these vans today face up to life in prison if convicted . $47.00 individuals being charged. with chinese and 30 promise that the national security be used in a very narrow sense. it's clear that iraq is not going to be. sorely disappointed and we remember the foreign contributions the international community can see the results of the hong kong people we want the judges to be fair to be

independent and to be objective and give them a fair trial. activists are concerned that the court could be pressured to impose severe sentences in a bid to cripple the democracy movement once and for all. hoping for international support they say hong kong is last freedoms are at stake. of that obviously the kong is on the ground at the courthouse joins me. what's the latest. what happens staving as staying here outside the courtroom in hong kong throughout the day i'm so hungry itself people show up today to. the courts and on the streets outside the court to show support to the opposition takers prosecutor and a face saying hearing inside a court right next to me so they chant slogans such as release put cole are. most

of all the protest among slogans throughout the day and so they want to show support by being present here so they feel that this is the few remaining ways that they can protest and express their opinions on this situation how they sent it into a little bit chaos throughout the day police accuse the public the crowds are endangering national security or even preach a national security law because they chant the so cause the 1st the political slogans which is now banned in hong kong so now the queue is cleared and the crowd is this is the 1st us police site run of virus destructions rules. but the hearing is still going on. you said the hearing is still going on what could be the consequences of that hearing. well today is the 1st day off the hearing on the prosecution of the $47.00

opposition takers on the court is canceling their bail application and the legal procedures of the case so that asho hearing off to cayes house and began hasn't begun yet and we went out it's my way expecting more details as the hearing goes song and never speaking about the consequences of the confection so in order if the opposition take us back context under the national security law they could face a life imprisonment which is a very heavy sentence oh i'm under the new law and it's also very unlikely for them to be ground to jail let before the hearing so that means they could be detained until the hearing finish. some support international support in our report do you think there is enough international support.

oh yes today i also i met some of the cost us thousands from the western countries here outside because they sent representatives on to to tender here and says so you also show the house concerning this case to the international community that statements have been issued including the u.s. the european union and also the u.k. so in a pos many prominent activists all lobby support for the international community even now home call this expect more from the western countries particularly that statement are not enough they hope for more actions and i don't think you. police and soldiers in myanmar are trying to disperse protesters who are back on the streets yesterday security forces used live ammunition against the protesters killing at least 18 people and wounding 30 others that's according to united nations around a 1000 people are believed to have been detained in the crackdown police young gone

used to go to clear the protesters it's now been a month since the military seized. from seeing daily protests calling for a return to democracy onstott civilian leader aung san suu kyi in a closed course on monday by video link authorities have reportedly added a charge of inciting unrest to previous charges that observers have already considered obscure. joined by a journalist i'm in town to see any young on. what kind of impact has some as violent crackdown on the protesters. so the protesters that we're seeing today are much younger years largely seeing people you know between 20 and 35 or so and they're out in the streets much better equipped than they were before today we saw protesters creating barriers using sand that they had trucked in to create a safety very essential in case the police did try and shoot either live or rubber

bullets at them again in a solid. mass for tear gas things like that and even though older people and you know children who are no longer on the streets today you did see a lot of people standing in their stairwells telling her testers as they passed by that if they need to they could run into the stairwells and hide from the security forces but also she was seen in court today was the 1st time since she was detained what can you tell us about that what kind of impact did that have on the protestors so what we've been able to know about the meeting we've learned from her lawyers it was a closed door meeting here video chat we still don't know where she is exactly all we do now is that her lawyers say that she looks healthy and that she has been charged with an additional charge sufficient. the protests strikes civil

disobedience how long can this movement go on the a thing. it really depends on how much unity there is within that the civil disobedience movement you know obviously iraq has had a long history of ethnic unrests religious divisions those sorts of things and civil disobedience movement has really started to bring those disparate groups together and so you know i think people here are quite used to going without a country with extremely high income inequality and what you're seeing right now is just going extremely generous with their supplies with their resources and so if that will continue i think this can go on for months. do you see any signs of the military junta backing down i think you know what we're seeing right now is that they are reacting and responding to what protestors are doing rather than what you would normally see in

a coup where they kind of speak and are trying to consolidate power and the harshest crackdowns yesterday we saw in mandalay and on euro and gentle in places like that where they have largely been unable to prevent people from protesting despite warnings despite escalating violence and this by essentially telling people that they will start telling journalists i am in touch in young god thank you very much let's have a look now at some of the other headlines we're following for you indian prime minister narendra modi has received the 1st dose of the country's homegrown corona virus vaccine and that as india starts rolling out immunizations beyond front line workers people over 60 and those over 45 suffering from certain medical conditions are now also eligible for the job. humanitarian groups see what chance brought nearly 400 migrants to italy after a series of rescue operations in the mediterranean sea watch says it saved dozens

of people from a wooden boat that was about to sink. continue astronauts have ventured out of the international space station to install support frames for new higher efficiency solar panels arriving later this year kate rubens and victor glover carried hundreds of kilos of mounting brackets and struts 6 new solar panels should you choose the stations are up to 30 percent. this was made at the golden globes for film and television which were handed out in a mostly virtual ceremony there at the closure or who directed the movie nomad land starring the frances mcdormand became the 1st asian to take best director and best movie comedy went to sacha baron cohen 2nd to fill the golden globes are awarded by the 87 members of the hollywood foreign press association. donald trump has hinted at a possible presidential run in 2024 he was addressing

a gathering of conservatives in his 1st speech since losing the 2020 alexion he also attacked the republicans who voted to impeach him he called for them to be thrown out of the party did abuse washington bureau chief in his pool reports from the c pac convention in florida. it feels like excepting a time machine lending in the days when donald trump was the president of the united states i don't know conner's a co-chair of the floyd off adoration of teenage republicans they have a standard c.s. c.p.a. the conservative branch of the grand old party is holding its annual meeting in orlando florida at a time when the republicans are doing some soul searching about the future we're going to situated right now we're going from the republican party lindsey graham to the republican party of president donald j. charlie we have the newcomers coming out like not it's

a massive call doing really bringing change to the party some good change. yes for every party the successful fight for the young voters will be crucial for the future of the republicans generation's ear which in my current age group is very conservative because we saw the backlash of you know the millennial of being like more socialist and we feel like we're out there rob. sonny doshas the daughter of indian immigrants she says trump whites all she needs to be a free and successful business woman i want him to say he's running for 2024 and make america great again because right now i don't think it's great since ronald reagan and see peg is a forum for conservative ideas a barometer to identify the few to leader of the g.o.p. this year it is all about donald trump every person i talked to didn't leave any doubt that he is the only presidential candidate they will vote for in

2024 making it very very difficult for the republican party to ignore him even so this year's event is pretty empty. and finally he's here for the last act of this year's conference. friends of the. one who have lived through now. i may even decide it beat them for a 3rd time ok. this message is enough to keep the hopes of his supporters i'm very excited you know charles said everything i wanted here the young republican going forward with the republican party so you know i'm excited you know you're very happy to see the future the public party is in good hands. for now the republican policy seems to be going in one direction.

germany some shops and services are allowed to open again starting today even though there is a slow but steady rise in infection rates fueled by more contagious variants of the coronavirus in time for spring d.i.y. shops garden centers and flower shops reopened in some german states and it's finally time for the locks to come off as well as barber shops and hairdressers cross country can welcome customers this summer here and how it opened at midnight for those desperate to get rid of their corona asked. political correspondent standing by outside the hassle and. people in germany have been desperate for headrests to open again why is it so important for people. well had roses have been closed since mid december 7th 2 and a half months now and one of the 1st clients that they saw behind me this morning had was german president frank steinmeyer so he clearly wanted to be

a role model and show people that he was sticking to the rules because of course during those 2 and a half months of closure there were a lot of rumors that some people had sort of jumped the queue or there was even a black market in head dressing so professional football players with extremely well trained have for example and one other client came out if he just said this is genius so she felt extremely relieved but on a more serious note the government explained the opening of has holland's with the fact that it's specially important for old people it's a question of dignity and that many old people simply can't wash the hat by themselves and a. few other restrictions have also been lifted today tell us what the. you mentioned garden centers and flower shops but also some driving schools are opening and there are states here in germany where even schools are going back to almost normal and you have to keep in mind when you talk about restrictions or

whether they have been eased here in germany that these decisions are ultimately taken on a federal on a regional level so it's the state leaders of the 16 individual states that do cite these measures and of course pressure has been growing on those politicians to ease restrictions many people are exhausted parents are exhausted many people's financial reserves have been used up and so everybody's looking at what's going to happen now on wednesday when anglo american and the 16 state leaders are going to come together again to decide whether or not to extend the current. vaccine roll out is still extremely slow in germany and you've mentioned it more and more people seem to be losing patience with the government is opposition against a continued lockdown gaining ground here. it is and that is clearly shown by the recent polls that were published where harford germans

actually want restrictions to be eased gradually only one 3rd of germans want the restrictions to continue as they are and some 17 percent want to return back to normality as soon as possible and that is very different from a situation that we had 2 months ago where the majority of germans were ok with the restrictions but so opposition politicians have been fighting to get a clearer perspective that we don't only look at the number of new infections here in germany but we also look at where we can do more in terms of testing and tracing of new infections and of course how to speed up the vaccination process so a lot on the table for anglo-american and the 16 state leaders this wednesday political correspondent thank you nina. hundreds of girls from the nigerian town of junk are still missing after a gunman attacked a school and took $317.00 hostages on friday parents are anxiously awaiting the return of their daughters since the abduction they've been coming to the school to

ask for news and demand answers as to how the kidnapping was allowed to happen in the 1st place to w.'s for movement reports from some for a state this man has come to this school to find and says his daughter is one of the hundreds of girls who were could not on friday sunless a guard dog hasn't been able to sleep since the news reached his family. he says. quite a bit. and chroma ties situation we are in. because of where we constantly. go our lawyer is thinking about. ghettos daughter have sat is only 12 years old she had just started this it can save mr had to just give a secondary school police and the school authorities say they were caught off guard

. the girls were sleeping here when the gunmen attacked what used to be called the most secure government school in zamfara state. and this secondary school used to cost more than 550 schoolgirls more than 300 of them are now in captivity this state has decided to shut down all schools in zamfara state because they cannot guarantee the safety of students without education the future of younger generation in northern nigeria is now at stake. the vice principal is wild that parents will stop sending their children to school it out of the it is a negative for me because they are girls and they are korean no to which. student i feel. and they will not feel comfortable to the student and.

state officials say they have beefed up security exam for state negotiations to get the girls released are reported to be under way if they are located i want to assure you that the example the state government has the capacity to rescue them without getting choice. but to join get basic and risk pool get the has one wish or 2 a life is to bring our children. safely unhealthy that is our prayer. the big question is why these girls have been kidnapped but as yet no answers are forthcoming. the united states is calling on the african union to intervene in the deepening crisis in ethiopia staker a region washington expressed grave concern over reported atrocities and the

worsening shown its area and situation there and this international has accused eritrean forces of killing hundreds of civilians thousands fled the region many tell harrowing stories of violence. stranded in a border town in sudan burdened with traumatic experiences cinema and grim a are both refugees from to grow i the likely never forget the day that soldiers invaded their hometown. but i knew. they shot innocent people a subtle 12 bodies they took people's belongings and everything we had. all of that left of the clothes on my back on the end. tens of thousands of people fled the ethiopian army as offensive against the provincial government and to gripe reports of atrocities and massacres of civilians followed the hamdi at border reception center has been overwhelmed by the flood of refugees there's not enough tents often

just plastic sheeting to fend off the searing heat illnesses are rampant and food is scarce some lucky few managed to get bus tickets to refugee camps farther away from the border. but these facilities are also full now the omer quba camp is now at twice its planned passageway many children here are sick and initiated their mothers are desperate. i thought of when we arrived here no one could give us food for the children we didn't have enough to eat either i didn't have any money to buy food at the market this is a holiday that it. fears are now the upcoming rainy season could bury the camp in mud no one's prepared for that here aid workers predict a catastrophe of steps aren't taken quickly in the coming. the opposite of that has been built is going to be broken there is a lot of that if it is going to be broken again and so there would be but to a point where we have to stop supplying them with sources from square 0 in the

coming weeks it's feared tens of thousands more people could flee from ethiopia over the border into sudan one of the world's poorest countries. and some football news in germany is bundesliga live a cause and sank deeper towards crisis point with a loss to fry book and now without a win in the last 4 weeks the coach is coming under a tense pressure. like the coach peter bush cues and fans have been waiting more and more in patiently for the remerge incent the side that led the league early in the season hosting freiburg the intent was there if not the execution tonight by the hand of florian miller several times they would pay the price in the 2nd half when the visiting sides chances came they were taken. and married into marriage gay freiburg delayed in the 50th minute and it was to write on the alamo. when lucas hurler was just the right side of offside to make things very difficult to live

accuse and leon bailey she made left on the edge of the area to get things going in the right direction after 70 minutes but it proved to be all that accuse and could muster. finish with freiburg deserved to one winners and eyeing the european places late accusing are still there just that the outlook is bleak. as a quick look at the standing after match day 23 out of 34 by an narrowly lethal leeks just 2 points ahead of lights spork and on 4th round out the top 4 while some of the big hitters continue to struggle in the bottom half stuttgart are still going strong what things are looking bad from mindset even worse for showing the fire then tying a coaching staff and 9 points away from safety. you're watching news live and that's all from the news team for now 11 update for you at the top off the all but don't go away up next on program global 3000 includes

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flashes from housing boom boom boom town this is where they are. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend r t w. welcome to global 3 thousands. of custom reka is blessed with water in abundance and with people who are determined to conserve this precious commodity. eco tourism in mexico will conservation what. be the main focus of our holiday in future. may your car is normally heaving with tourists the pandemic

has changed all of that and that's been disastrous for many locals. of course some years it was a bit too much for your cursed spain's biggest islands beautiful but utterly overcrowded the streets jammed the bars overflowing party go as everywhere. for local people the mainly german and british tourists were simply too many too loud to inconsiderate. in 2913700000 foreign visitors descended on the barrack islands. then the coronavirus hit and the brakes were slammed on tourists travel everywhere in 2020 just 1700000 people came here a drop of 87 percent yes most local people depend on tourism to survive in just 12 months unemployment rose by 37 percent believe.

things are now gradually starting up again but it's not clear when normality might return and that's leaving many local people deeply concerned. palmas sunny winters normally attract plenty of tourists but right now there's just a handful of people on the beach. the pandemic has turned life on the island upside down. many locals are despairing and the somber mood is rubbing off on the few visitors that are here also here it's like a ghost town at least here in town the day my orca from the spot by your call you know. the big hotels are nearly empty tourism has come to a standstill. right. people are angry. and there are demonstrations on the streets unemployment is at a record high many are on the brink of ruin and say the government has abandoned

them. it was an american we needed something to eat we have to pay our bills but no one is helping us we're fed up tired of being humiliated and lied to me. i scenes like this have become commonplace in palma lines of people waiting patiently at a food bank like this one run by the toddler aid organization. before the coronavirus crisis tardo distributed about 200 meals a day now it's about 2000 the government subsidy for people who've had their hours cut or lost their jobs is rarely enough to keep people in flight. it is going to say to and help out there also here she lost her job working in a hotel. that's just how we got out there i'm not ashamed to be here so many of us have to stand in lines like this i just find it sad to have to ask for food he but

i mean me brister been of the need every camille one of them to tell you about runs the tardo aid organization it's financed solely by private donations he says that the crisis threatens to stretch the social fabric on the island to breaking point. and for many entrepreneurs we used to mainly serve people who'd been living on the edge of society for a long time and now we're seeing families with children who've been out of work since last summer and we've got people they have. the aid organization also runs shelters one of them is just a few blocks away which has beds for up to 80 people. more and more locals find themselves trapped in a downward spiral 1st they lose their jobs and then their homes. new york a has a population of 1000000 a 3rd are now living in poverty. but

daniel travis is originally from argentina he's now sharing a single room with his wife and 3 children before the crisis they had an apartment and he and his wife worked in a hotel. we both had jobs and were doing really well. but suddenly the virus came and things began to go downhill in because. the people of new york have been hit hard. by. activist she won money where's a good is heading in demonstration in front of an apartment building they want to prevent an eviction the landlord is trying to force mohammed and the hoofy who is from morocco to move out because he's behind on the rent. despite the pandemic there are about 10 evictions in palma every week the demonstrations only manage to hold and handful of evictions and usually it's just

a temporary reprieve. and if the moment some of the we're seeing more and more vixens in rental apartments families who are squatting in apartments out of sheer desperation are also being thrown out for me article by. mohamed el hoofy is lucky the demonstration was large enough to attract attention the eviction has been halted at least for now. the anger is growing here locals say state aid has been too little too late many are demanding that the regional government step down. it's not it's no surprise that people are protesting because we understand that but at the same time our main priority is to improve. health situation we need to relieve the pressure on our hospitals people's lives are at stake. as the crisis deepens many people on the

island are showing solidarity restaurant and is not donating meals for people in need. jose mariano virgos is also helping even though his restaurant is also on the brink. so far he's only received 1500 year ice and subsidies just a drop in the bucket compared to what he needs. but i don't want to help the people who are even worse off than we are this is going to be our worst year ever who knows if the government is all talk or if they're finally going to take action the situation here is really terrible mr markey. told them on the way. at midday the meals are already hot chocolate it took 2 and a sandwich the mood is subdued people here know that another tough year lies ahead for me orca right now there's no telling when the tourists will return.

when will we see such images again will we ever in fact there are increasing demands for travel to be rethought for an end to mass tourism and a shift towards more climate and environmentally sound holidaying eco tourism for example involves being up close to nature and also directly benefiting it but how does it work it's certainly a growing sector in $29000.00 its market size was valued at $180000000000.00 us dollars we headed to mexico's baja california coast an area rich in sea life to find out more. mexico's baja california is wild and beautiful the pacific here is full of creatures hunting and being hunted marlin deep sardines but overfishing has depleted marlin populations.

conservationists. worried and are keen to protect them. may be native here but they're hard to find nowadays. at 5 in the morning ben is wide awake and raring to go he's from the united states and has come here to magdalena bay to see wildlife. it's absolutely excitement so it's i wake up alarm goes off it's like let's get up let's carry let's go really excited to suit the day is going to bring. for the people living here fishing has been the major source of income. ben is joining a scientific expedition led by marine biologist valentino koch around. you know you . 'd had 1st things are very quiet. and then some birds show up looking like they've spotted something.

they find several sea lions hunting for breakfast. there on their. grave the. dolphins are curious as to what's going on and accompany the boat. there have to be some marlins out there somewhere they should be hunting right now but this season they haven't been seen very much. but when tina cochran works with the next cali project a nonprofit that backs research into marine life and promotes eco tourism as an alternative source of income to fishing for local communities. she wants to see if there are any traces of mormon eggs. but.

if they spawn here that means this area is of great importance it would be an important argument in favor of declaring it a conservation zone. is helping the know how a project to promote citizen science that's when members of the public help conduct research little waves well and tina retrieves a sample of water thick with jelly like plankton. i'm going to put it on because one still takes some sample to drink this research is financed with the money citizen scientists pay to take part in such expeditions about 2000 euros each that's about twice the price of a regular tourist expedition. i think it's really cool to be a major and to be actually contributing to this beautiful bay that there's conservation efforts and help and understand the population the fish populations and we need to protect that better than just going on

a vacation. back on land they study their samples under the microscope the ocean is packed with chinese creatures. overfishing means that the striped marlin could soon be declared an endangered species. we have to start protecting them right now so they don't go the way of tuna or sharks. don't miss. the next morning a party of tourists sets off on a catch and release fishing competition this kind of tourism is gaining ground in baja california it's considered less destructive than commercial regular recreational fishing. but catch and release can still be fatal as we later see for ourselves. molesey 0 is skipper on ben's boat

he's lived from fishing for most of his life but no longer he says commercial trawlers catch way too many marlin as by catch. one of the employees that way over time you can drive a species to extinction that way if no restrictions are enforced it's very tempting to catch more than your permitted to there are but i mean. he says the ocean may be teeming with life but we should only take what we absolutely need he's now a fan of eco tourism and says it provides him with a good living and helps conserve local biodiversity. the expeditions soon chances upon more action in the ocean. seals and dolphins are busy hunting. then some whales show up as animals so much larger than you but at the same time it's allowing that space and so it's that beauty and actually you know watch them in

their natural habitat. and know marlon makes a brief appearance. on . the boats with the tourists are heading back to harbor they caught a fish a marley they had spent an hour hunting it then it died by mistake they say. it swallowed a hook and hurt itself and we were going to catch and release it but then we couldn't. find tina asks for its entrails so its death wasn't entirely in vain they could help her research she hopes to present her 1st findings in 2 years' time if we put on the cause and we have to protect. you know that that 1 may have some value but a living one has so much more and more to. ben says he's grateful for the part he can play in researching the marlin and the

efforts to protect the species. gonna is one of africa's popular tourist destinations and that's where this week's global snack comes from. with the 2000000 inhabitants ghana's capital on the west african atlanta coast is the biggest city in the country. are open. to see george says it has a snack bar on mile 7 where she's been selling grilled corn on the cob since 2009. each morning conus to live it that she picked out any at the market. like that if you give you a point if the corn is brought fresh from the farm it's really tasty and it's.