crime organizing an informal primary election last year the hope was to select pro-democracy candidates to run for legislative council elections every teen matter and much of the world but it took place shortly after the national security law took effect and for china's rulers it was a threat one they say was manipulated from abroad. well 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 human rights issues to interfere in other country's internal affairs and we will resist. the activists taken to court in these vans today face up to life in prison if convicted. the $47.00 individual being charged. with chinese and dorothy's promise to finish. very soon. it's clear that he's not going to be.

part. of a foreign country who 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 purple the democracy movement once and for all. hoping for international support they say hong kong is lost freedoms are at stake. is in front of the court in hong kong and joins us now from there phoebe what's the latest. where the hearing has lasted much longer than expected as the number of defendants and also the controversies these cases are and. unprecedented and we have learned more details of

the national security case in the codes where the prosecutor accuse the 47 leaving . the land to open those and paralyzed the government not by abusing their power if they got elected so abusing power abuse of power means they will be total government feels indiscriminately and. forced the chief executive to step down according to mccann the sum stated in the basic law which is the mini constitution in hong kong the prosecutor. asked for a churning the hearing for 3 months but that was subject to by the defendants is down. and prosecutor also checked. the bail application of the defendants but it's very controversial because if if if doing so the defendants will have to be with manson in custody in the near future.

where does that leave the movement. well among the prosecutors activists down opposition figures in this case their problem and also. banned entire wish of a leading and influential figure in town in terms of activism and down now to taint cellos because of the pots in the protest and also on the activism we've seen over the last one to 2 years so these speakers in the past a lobby for international support. for the home call fight for democracy but now they have to change and these is like definitely a major setback for the whole whole opposition came there is no leave this all parties that have all to lead to movement. seen that there is some international support. do you think activists think there is enough international

support. for yes we have seen statements from all the western countries including the us the european union and also the u.k. so the so-called. people on to ground to feel that statement is not enough light because of the worsening situation here and because people can't carry on any kind of actual form of activism under the national security law like today are attending a court hearing is barely one of the we maintaining ways that they can force their . opinions though they're hoping for more actual and progressive actions taken by the international community rather than just statements. thank you for. trying to disperse protesters who are back on the streets today security forces

used live ammunition against the poor. since killing at least 18 people and wounding 30 others that's according to the u.n. and around a 1000 people are believed to have been detained in the private prison young on use tear gas to clear the protesters it's now been a month since the military seized power in myanmar prompting daily protests calling for a return to democracy also that civilian leader aung san suu kyi appeared in a closed court on monday by video link so it is have reportedly added a charge of inciting unrest to previous charges that observers have considered obscure. i'm not joined by a journalist i'm in town to see any young on. what kind of impact has some as violent crackdown have 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 a bullet at the again you know it's all a. 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 protesters as they passed by if they need to they could run to their stairwells and hide from the security forces but also the 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 the

a video chat we still don't know where she is exactly all we do know is that her lawyers say that she looks healthy and that she has been charged with an additional charge of sedition. the protests strikes civil disobedience how long can this movement go on do you think it really depends on how much unity there is within that the civil disobedience movement you know obviously you know has had a long history of ethnic unrest 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 people being 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 protesters are doing rather than what you would normally see in a coup where they kind of speak and are trying to consolidate power and harshest crackdowns yesterday we saw in mandalay and on euro and general 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 . and here are some of the other headlines we're following you for you right now indian prime minister narendra modi has received the 1st dose of the country's homegrown corona virus vaccine 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. the humanitarian group see watch as 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. after they continued their astronauts have ventured out of the international space station to install support frames for a new high efficiency solar power years arriving later this year kate rubens and victor glover carried hundreds of kilos of mounting brackets and struck us 6 new solar panels should boost the station's by up to 30 percent. here in germany some shops and services are allowed to open again starting today even though there is a slow but steady rise in infection rates by or contagious variants coronavirus in time for spring d.i.y. shops garden centers and flower shops can reopen and some states and it's finally

time for the locks to come off as barber shops and hairdressers across the country can now welcome customers this hour in hamburg opened at midnight for those especially desperate to get rid of their. you know. political correspondent standing by outside the house ellen here in berlin you know people in germany have been desperate for headrests to open again why is it so important for people. well had dresses have been closed since mid december so for 2 and a half months now and one of the 1st clients that they saw behind me this morning had was german president frank fighter 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 the more serious note the government explained the opening of has holland's with the fact that it is specially important for old people it's a question of dignity and that many old people simply can't wash their hair by themselves anymore. other restrictions have also been lifted today tell us what they are. 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're being eased here in germany that these decisions are ultimately taken on a federal on the 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 that 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. correspondent thank you nina. we have some breaking news coming in a court in paris has found former french president nicolas sarkozy guilty of corruption is been sentenced to time in prison so busy was facing charges of bribery and influence peddling he served as president from 2007 until 2012 is the 2nd head of state in modern day france to be convicted of corruption.

and for more on this let's go to live in paris talk us through was what happened today. well the judge decided to find nicolas sarkozy former french president give of corruption and influence peddling and she said that he had. a responsibility as a former head of state and was supposed to maintain the justice system and also because he's a lawyer by profession he should have known not to do what he did the judge found that there was an indication that he actually tried to bribe judge to help him with a court case in his favor really and say she decided that he would have to spend at least one year in prison out of these 3 years. how likely is it that he actually will go to prison that he will actually sit behind bars. well the french

justice system is very long winded say it's very likely that nicolas sarkozy will appeal it can against the judgment today but they are the court cases that are pending here in france against him and it was important to see this 1st decision also because some people were speculating that he might too want to stage a comeback ahead of next year's presidential elections and that now seems very unlikely. to lose our correspondent in paris thank you lisa. america's best performing economies. of soup kitchens. become dependent on food donations. 5 volunteers work in the soup kitchen at why every day they turn groceries like these peppers into

a delicious meal for the needy. jacqueline ricardo has been working here for a year she used to work at a restaurant until she was fired without notice. last march right at the beginning of the pandemic i was laid off and i didn't receive unemployment benefits and i had to struggle through because i worked in the restaurant off the books. today they've made pastor with a vegetable source the food is provided by private donors since the beginning of the pandemic poverty here has been growing the number of corona virus infections has increased dramatically in the country since november the health crisis is happening in the midst of an economic one many companies have had to shut their doors and revenue from tourism has dropped sharply as well. jacqueline record as afternoon is all about child care aid organization offers children from poor backgrounds the opportunity to have their birthday parties in this house many

children live with their single mothers a large number of them like jack clean lost their jobs during the pandemic here at least for one afternoon the children can forget their worries that home and just have fun. unemployment and poverty have been on the rise in europe why since the pandemic began. the problem in europe why is the current cuts in spending. many companies are laying off their employees. some are using the pandemic as an excuse to get rid of staff. one sign of the economic crisis is the return of soup kitchens like the one run by solely. for the 1st time in 15 years dependent on food donations

just put another. a lot of people are living on unemployment benefits these days hunger is back in our country and the state doesn't care enough about the poor. that's why we run our soup kitchen. for 180 people here in the capital montevideo they all hope that the pandemic will soon be over and with it the economic crisis which has caused many of them to slip into poverty. and here are some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic president became the 1st recipient of the coronavirus vaccine from the global program known as kovacs initiative is aimed at helping poor nations get a grip on the pandemic germany is preparing to restrict border crossings from france starting at midnight on tuesday after classify them as 0 region as a high risk covert zone under the u.s. deliveries of the johnson and johnson vaccine began after it was approved over the

weekend officials hope the new single dose shot will boost vaccination rights in areas where jobs have been less available. and a bit of history was made at the golden globe awards for film and television in the u.s. not only was it the 1st time the ceremony was held during a pandemic it will also a number of firsts when it came to the witness that was harsh criticism too over a lack of diversity within the group that hosts the event the hollywood foreign press association which goes to the $121.00 of the golden globe awards this year's golden globe awards for a symbol of the change media landscape no stars on the red carpet no tables full of laughing actors was the strangeness fear made even more awkward after it was revealed that the hollywood foreign press association has no black members post tina fey and amy poehler didn't pull their conscience earlier everybody is understandably upset at the h s p a and their choices look

a lot of flashy garbage got nominated but that happens ok that's like their thing but a number of black actors and black lead projects were overlooked and look we all know that award shows are stupid. they're all a scam invented by big red carpet to sell more carpet we know that what is even a stupid things inclusive it is important and there are no black members of the hollywood foreign press i realize h.s.p. a maybe you guys didn't get the memo because your workplace is the backbone of a french mcdonalds but you gotta change that so here's to change he was dominated by streaming platforms is netflix raked in awards for the crown amazon to the category for best musical comedy and the 2nd board. but there were surprises golden globe those too. no matter the director of closure i won best picture and became the 1st woman of color to take home best

director for her film no man's land which stars frances mcdormand. no marilyn i score for me is a. pilgrimage through a grief and healing. so for everyone who has gone through this difficult and beautiful journey some point in their lives this is for you we don't say goodbye we say see you down the road thank you. in another surprise when andra day took best drama actress for her portrayal of legendary jazz singer billy holiday in the united states versus billie holiday. on a night where the winners more closely resembled hollywood's new creators the question remains will the hollywood foreign press association also show a willingness to change.

and some football use in the german bundesliga leverkusen signed deeper towards crisis point with a loss to fly ball now without a win in the last 4 weeks into the coach's trauma coming on the intense pressure. like the coach peter bush live in houston fans have been waiting more and more impatiently for the reemergence of 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 mirvish gave freiburg the lead in the 50th minute and it was to write on the hour. when lucas hurler was just the right side of offside to make things very difficult for a live accuser and leon bailey shimmied left on the edge of the area to get things going in the right direction after 70 minutes but it proved to be all they've

accuse and could muster. finish with pride don't deserve to one winners and i'm the european places later husan are still there just that the outlook is bleak. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you in breaking news a court in paris has found former french president nicolas sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling he's been sentenced to one year in prison and also given a 2 year suspended sentence he served as president from 2007 until 2012. watching b.w. news still to come. what's driving young people in myanmar to risk their lives in protests against the military coup. and people on the taiwanese matsu islands fear losing grounds of china one boat load. all that coming up in the news asia in just a moment that's all from me on the news stream

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