this is it every news live from berlin punished for their resistance hong kong's for democracy activists get jail terms and suspended prison sentences for the latest in a string of dissidents facing the porch over mass demonstrations against china's a growing power in the territory also coming up the fatal shooting at police a body count footage shows the killing of a 13 year old boy in chicago authorities call for calm amid protests over police

violence and a distress call from germany's intensive care workers chance on the american tells lawmakers think he'd warnings from doctors and agree on a new automatic triggers for a national anthem the restrictions. on whether hockey a very warm welcome to all of you some of hong kong's most prominent democracy campaigners have today learned the price of standing up to china's encroaching power a court has handed down a string of sentences on several anti-government protest leaders media tycoon jimmy lie will serve a total of 14 months in prison he's convicted for his role in an unauthorized assembly martin lee who is 82 years old and known as hong kong's father of

democracy has been handed an 11 month suspended sentence and almost 1700000 people joined in pro-democracy marches in the city 2 years ago. well there for more we are now joined by d.w. correspondent phoebe congress she is in hong kong where she has been tracking that all important court sentence sentences have been handed down phoebe how harsh word they put it in perspective for us. why i have been staying in the courtroom 3rd the day to observe the sentencing and right after the church and now as the sentence is on the all 10 the fens the room has burst into a kind of i. chant of protest logan's a lot of supporters show up today to attend the hearing to show senator solidarity

to the child defendants and also to protest against their sentences the wish they think is unjust and in response though many of the defendants i have spoken to over the previous weeks that they said oh well prepared for cho term but still. at a moment when they were sentence that they chanted slogans inside a courtroom insisted on there is no there is nothing criminal to all the nice and attend and unauthorized assembly there is a peaceful one although without permission from the police that they insisted this is not just to see follow this obedience now jimmy lie was the most arguably the most prominent defender today in court talk to us about the significance of his 4th 14 month sentence and also tell us a little bit about him what makes him so remarkable.

yes to me i have received one of the most heaviest sentence we've seen today that he is the founder of the very famous and the biggest opposition news outlet in hong kong. he has been spoken critic of the chinese government and also the hong kong government a local level that. the sentence is this is a fair sentence that he faced lie in his life though there are multiple charges he has to face a impending verdict and sentence in the future but this is a very symbolic moment that he is officially sent to jail for the very 1st time in his life and that the speaking about these sentences today that many of the defendants that they received jail terms and though have the defendants 5 of them were given suspended sentences but that doesn't mean that the case and at this

point the prosecution may still make an appeal against the sentence as that and that means they are still facing are those charges that there's still a chance for them to go to jail any time soon in the future. reporting from hong kong thank you very much. and phebe spoke to one defendant today the former chairman of the hong kong democratic party or before he was sentenced here's some of their conversation sticklers. a silver medal awarded to young song by the government for his political work it was something this former lawmaker felt proud of but 12 years later it seems to represent a hong kong that's been lost in that time the central government is beating. us to. a dog collar approach to hong kong try to as

my country home cause my home to love your country doesn't mean your love is so to political regime young so much one of 10 defendants found guilty of all going izing or attending marches in 2019 during massive anti-government protests many opposition icons of his generation now sentenced for the 1st time this is just the 1st of 6 charges against your. the 73 year old has taught at the university of hong kong for decades while also engaging in politics in court he was the only defendant to read out his submission in person. as a civil disobedience beauty but i don't feel remorse because i don't think i have done anything wrong. so i don't be picky my case. will go for appeal in prison. won't be

a surprise to me. young son calls himself a moderate who hoped for democracy under chinese rule but that hasn't happened before hong kong's handover from britain to china you saw him and fellow activists martin lee set up the democratic party they were among the 1st lawmakers dime. clear lect it to voice dissent in the chamber and pave the way for hong kong's party politics but now the national security law and intellectual overhaul the making it difficult for opposition parties to even survive for a typical the past week just to be worth all the praise of democracy we have managed over the past and if you so this is a big retreat of democracy in hong kong is it will wagner stand for you like him again i've been talking about the politics i think is a big question of whether we go back to the place of group politics i did like in

70. 5 his generation may soon become history but he doesn't think that efforts will have been in vain all history is so full of struck oath to never use a gauge myself on politics and i don't think i would leave hong kong at all democracy in law tells about a party politics not is about the world take but also just how it affects our ways of living but i was to insist on the russian or peaceful approach and i think this is the way to solve the problem in the long run. democratic values a noun deeply rooted in hong kong's culture his fight isn't over yet. and we can report that mr young some of the former chairman of the hong kong democratic party who you just heard there has received a suspended sentence you still facing 5 other charges struck some more about this

which china expert more it's a route off from the german institute for international and security affairs 1st of all so i want to start our conversation by asking you what type of message do authorities in hong kong want to send with this string of sentences and specifically sentencing hong kong's influential media tycoon or jim you lie. well the daily was one of the few newspaper outlets that yesterday went out joining in with the hong kong newspapers to celebrate the national security education day so the message goes towards that the opposition and. cause would cause it's for potential instability in hong kong is will not be tolerated by the authorities in hong kong and in beijing and so what do the sentences effectively mean for the pro-democracy movement in hong kong. well it's it was i think it was its mission if it was not surprising so it was expected but what we have seen no

over the past 2 years wasn't significant deterioration of the power of this democracy movement so this is just another step into this direction or another nail in the coffin for the moccasin movement of income with this ongoing clampdown how close today are we basically essentially to a one country one system reality in hong kong where china runs things. well i think we are not moving towards a one country 2 economic systems situation who come so beijing had always emphasize that in the one country 2 systems. metrics the one country is the most important part and then you have the 2 systems while in hong kong and especially within that democracy movement to 2 systems was the most important one but in beijing you know it shows that in the end it has more power to push forward its own

reading of the one country 2 systems idea and that is as i mentioned it's one country that there is little room for political opposition and if there are 2 systems there most of the when it comes to a different kind of economic system but also this is becoming i'm hoping is becoming more and more integrated economically within the structure of one done and those those are the areas of southern china so also there the importance of hong kong as as a standalone play is decreasing and not increasing and now i don't have had the chance to listen to our report where the former chairman of the hong kong democratic party yes mr young so many said essentially democratic values are deeply rooted in hong kong's culture but if now speaking your mind is considered a crime what effect does that have on democratic and gauge meant. well i think in

addition to that what you saw on the 15th was that the national security education day was also targeting young children those who were not growing up in the 200-8990 s. of hong kong so for them it would you completely different story so the question is to what extent this is deeply rooted conviction of an undistinguished democratic values whether this will be transported towards the next generation and this rules in the universities they are already being being targeted so the question is how sustainable this will be and whether hong kong in shouldn't 2030 years that we have to look into those long dimension of those long time frames whether it will still be so deeply rooted in to decide to have one can that we'll see in the 2030 years down the road more it's rudolph china expert at the german institute for international and security affairs thank you. if you. that's for you now on some of

the other stories making headlines around the world. iran says it has begun enriching uranium at 60 percent that's the highest level it has achieved so far the process takes iran closer to the purity needed to produce a nuclear weapon a suspected israeli attack on a key facility has complicated talks aimed at reviving tehran's nuclear deal with world powers. french president a man who in my car is holding talks with the ukrainian leader of a lot of mir is olinsky on escalating tensions with russia german chancellor angela merkel is also taking part where leaders have called on moscow to halt a military buildup along its border with ukraine. several people have been killed in a shooting in the us city of in the apple us gun fire broke out at a fed ex depot near the airport police have confirmed that the gunman is dead. on now to a graphic video were released in chicago where footage from

a police body camera appears to show a 13 year old boy dropping a handgun then raising his hands just before an officer shoots and kills him please note that this report contains images that are upsetting crap the officer involved incident started with a call to an emergency line early morning march 29th released by the city of chicago. chicago emergency stamper having was about 7 every country that fired on the 2300. final 300 block of earlier i'm hearing a lot of commotion right now. officer eric stillman was there not long after he got out of his car in 1900 seconds later a single shot. was dubbed. stillman called for medical help. part of our cameras are here to help. the

unemployed toledo to stay conscious. but he's been shot in the chest. meanwhile investigating officers pointed their flashlights at a gun on a fence line just behind where the shooting occurred. adam toledo's attorney and family know that police will rely on that handgun to defend officer stillman's actions if you had a gun he tossed it the officer said show me your hands he complied he turned around there's a still photo going around on the internet with his hands up and he shot in the middle of his chest. chicago has a reputation as one of the most violent cities in the us where gun crime is rampant as is mistrust of the police. so while we don't have enough information to be the judge and jury.