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and how we can make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now. the the, the a this is the w news, the live from berlin. police arrest a prominent hong kong activist ahead of commemorations for the t square crack down . her name is chow, hong tongue. she is known for getting thousands onto the streets to remember the 1989 violence in beijing also coming up. israel's benjamin netanyahu
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is not going down without a fight after a poem, to reach a fragile coalition to end the prime minister's 12, your rule that yahoo is battling to undo the alliance and re lumpkin. fishermen are left without a catch in the waters around the wrecked expressed press pearl. the cargo ship has been leaking, hazardous waste. fears are that hundreds of tons of oil may spill in the use. the me i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. police in hong kong have arrested a pro democracy activists on the 32nd anniversary of china's tianomarsh square crackdown chow hung tongue, who you see here with the pink mask usually leads a mass. the vigil on this day 40 animal victims. hong kong authorities have banned
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the commemoration for a 2nd year in a row. and dw correspondent phoebe kong met with chow, hung tongue recently. and here's her report, which was filmed before the arrest for over 3 that case, a sea of candle lights in hong kong, half kept the events of 1989 a life the cities, annual vigil, a symbol of defiance, unthinkable on mainland china. now even heading out candles is heavily police week the head of the 3rd, the 2nd anniversary, the organization, hong kong alliance, had a by jo hotel, began promoting the commemoration will be the same spacing of the national jewish law. here, people are even more supported our se, but the support as last expressive is actually gone beyond just a moment on time. and it also goes to the heart of what hong kong,
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where do we still have the fight? twice in the hot weather. we are so resisting, we are, we can still to serve our pre freedom by our own action. also we share that's great with the people who are already arrest custody for the hens. and last, the tide. police have found visual for the 2nd year in a row, setting the safety of the ship to other other mos gatherings like 2 days before the end advisory, the alliance as june soft museum museum commemorating the events of 1989 was closed down due to a licensing investigation by the authorities. many of the organizations leading members, i didn't, joe, for protesting, including chairman. again, we spoke to the veteran activists shortly before he was sent to 18 months in prison . we are in the darkness we are like in a tunnel. but if everyone to come up with a candle, that the spirit that we are looking for,
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i believe in the people hong kong we live in truth, make sure that the hong kong people know that we never give up. even though maybe we have to go to jail, i for the alliance. it's not just about commemorating the protests of 1989. but of i'd be able to do that to be able to call $1.00 and to $1.00 party rule for democracy protest now labeled as a person 5 basing. it could be a reason to outlaw the activism and the alliance, and so we are not 1000. so there's no question, not the government one to replicate the risk, it's not insisting on some slogan, awesome. some principle, the risk is what we are doing. sincerely fighting for the end of one talking dictatorship day. we always do that with really kind of why, by just like quasi, i one of the slogan whether this happened soon. now over
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a long way away depends on how hot recent resists, right? work is at the alliance as june, the source museum has begun to serve the tenement square experts in digital formats . if china continues to close out all avenues of physical protest in hong kong, moving historical africa, so an online museum may end of one of the last remaining ways of showing resistance . so that's the situation in hong kong. let's look at the view from china now on this important anniversary and it's implications for beijing's relationship with hong kong. corresponded mathias ballinger is joining us from the chinese capital mathias. you know, as we've heard there cow, hong tongue, the organizer of the tea edelman square vigil has been arrested in hong kong. what message does this send to the democratic movement in the city and also pro democrats in china more broadly? while the message is clear, the message is that what the party does not want people to say can not be said in
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hong kong. now as well. this vigil has, of course, being in the thorny of the side of jane for many years now and with a new security law. and with the overall political situation in the city, they have now the means to shut it down. the, the, their goal is clear that they don't want this event to be mentioned on chinese soil or even anywhere in the world. and they do whatever they can to make to let have people forget this. how important has the hong kong visual been for democrats in china and keeping the memory of the events of $989.00 alive? it was the only place on chinese soil where such a vigil could be held. so often people would travel there during that time,
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people from the mainland to take part in this vigil, which would be risky. because there is to be put a graph to what the identified but for people here in china for those who still want to remember these events, this has of course, been a very important message, the digital i've attended it a few times i've reported on it would also include voices from the mainland video messages from activists in the mainland. so for keeping the memory alive, this was pretty much a very, very important event. what is happening? what is the mood in beijing on this 32nd anniversary of tenement where well, nothing points to that this is the 32nd anniversary. people will have to commemorate this very privately. there is nothing in public that points to these events even online. for example, on the popular chat,
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we set the candle emerging in which you can have disappeared. so people are not even allowed to post a candle today. correspond mathias ballinger with a view from beijing. thank you. is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has mounted an attack on the broad coalition of rivals trying to feed him. the prime minister has called on right wing lawmakers to oppose the coalition. after it was announced by centrist yard le peed an ultra nationalist, natalie bennett. the potential future government still needs support from a simple majority in the kinetic israelis are divided over the political maneuvering. supporters of benjamin netanyahu aren't happy. after 12 years an office, israel's prime minister may be on the way out, and soon others are ready for
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a change or wait netanyahu as right wing members of parliament to oppose what he calls a dangerous left when government hoping to split up the coalition before they can be voted into power. the group is made up of opposition parties from across israel's political spectrum, including the arab islamic rom party. the only rational not of this go, alicia is correlation of payment. now forces plus some forces that are indeed not identify with any of the of the loss. and that's it. that's the rustle. the head of that proposed government would be enough. tolley bennett, who has established himself to the right of nathan, yahoo, this is him last year. have
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a whole long enough show. we will not allow the israeli government to recognize a palestinian state under any circumstances. we will not allow israel to hand over even a centimeter of land to the arabs. this is what we are here for to guard the land of israel will. should me, the theme of bennet is a generation younger than netanyahu has broken with allies on the religious right on the role of religion in public life. he's also comparatively liberal on gay rights and other issues. the chance of a new government. for some it's something to sing about. c this and let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the taint journalist rama part of parish has appeared on bella lucy in state television apparently confessing to his role an anti government protest in an interview. the
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opposition says that the interview was conducted under rest. he and his girlfriend had been in detention or rather have been in detention since may 23rd. when their fight flight was forced to land immense. russian police have released a well known opposition. politicians from custody after holding him for 2 days. demetrius good cause had been planning to run in september the parliamentary elections. russian authorities have been cracking down on the central recently ahead of the elections. us intelligence officials say there is no evidence that a series of identified objects seen by navy pilots were alien spacecraft. according to the new york times, holding a report to be sent. congress officials say that the aerial phenomena we're not secret u. s. technology could have come from a rival power the white house is announced
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a plan to give away millions of doses of corona virus vaccine. initially, the us will donate 25000000 vaccines. they will be distributed to countries in south and central america, africa, and asia. throughout the global vaccine sharing initiative kovak overall, the u. s. plants to donate 80000000 vaccines by the end of june. j longer is struggling to contain the environmental damage from a wrecked cargo ship, which has been leaking hazardous waste into the ocean. the express pearl is stuck off shore near the capital colombo, where it partially sagged, following a day's long fire sri lanka, plans choose through the ships operator though it says that the real cost may be incalculable. india has dispatched vessels to help to clean up and prepare for a possible oil spills. the ghostly rec, still smoldering,
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now sunk into the sea floor, attempts to tow the vessel to deep water failed. it may have to be broken apart in its place. the ships operator says most of the fuel and toxic cargo burnt in the blaze, but authorities readying for another wave of waste. if there is an oil spill, we have different methods of dealing with it. depending on the weather conditions. when we are ready to face all possibility, the 1st option is we can lay a boom around the ship. i think we're ready with. if that's not possible, we can drop oil dispersed from the air, you know him at some beaches along shoreline. because western coastline have been coded by billions of plastic pellets. similar scenes could come to other nations shore lines as currents carry the waste across the indian ocean. environmentalists described the other lead substances as a chemical soup and we found the number of very hazardous chemicals the more
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than a to contain itself. hazardous chemicals that include sodium, metal oxide, and copper flags lead in gods and nitric acid and lot of plastics. and also the book, see very things fishing has been banned, a long large stretches of the shoreline can. coastline fishermen fear for their health and their livelihoods. they have told us to fish at least 15 kilometers away. we went and put out 25 kilometer away. even though it was that far when we went to check out next in the morning, we didn't catch a single fish. not even a baby fish. without warning. the singapore flag vessel was only 4 months old when it caught fire in late may. the navy says the 12 day blaze was likely caused by the chemical cargo. the captain and some crew members had been barred from leaving
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