the who's this is the w news live from berlin. remember in china's bloody crackdown on pro democracy demonstrations. i. p. m, and square chinese troops opened fire on their own. people were calling for reform 32 years ago. today. we will speak with one of the leaders of the student movement from that time. also coming up,

police arrest prominent hong kong activists chow high and tongue b. she's known for getting thousands onto the fries to remember the 1989 violence dissertation. and sri lankan fishermen are left without a catch in the waters around erect cargo shit. it's been leaking hazardous waste fears are that hundreds of tons of oil may spill into the sea. and don't go. the u . k. expands is travel bread list and introduces quarantine from popular vacation spots previously given the green light. the move is slammed by the travel industry and hopeful holiday maker. ah, ah, i'm sarah kelly walked into the program. june 4th marks began a verse of beijing, 1989 t enemy square massacre for several weeks leading up to the deadly day. the square

had become a focal point for protest against economic hardship and corruption. students also gathered to demand democratic rights and freedoms. from the communist government, but by june, 4th, chinese leaders sent in troops to crush the demonstrations. this picture now of a loan protester standing in front of a line of tanks has become one of the most enduring symbols of the cracked out. no one knows exactly how many people were killed on june. 4th, 1989, something hundreds, others thousands. and on the 32nd anniversary, police in hong kong have arrested pro democracy activist chao hang tongue. usually she'd be leaving a math vigil for the victims of the piano and square massacre. but hong kong authorities have banned the commemoration for a 2nd year in a row he w correspondent phoebe call met chow, hung tongue recently. here's her report filled before the arrest. hello,

a warning shot 2 would be protesters on the anniversary of the day, the watch democracy. back to this child, hank tone, arrested by playing close police, her lead crime promoting unauthorized assembly. joe was one of the peers for over 3 decades to see of candle light in hong kong. kept the events of 1989 alive the cities annual visual a simple of defines unsinkable on mainland china. but now even handing out candles is heavily police weeks ahead of the 32nd anniversary, the organization, hong kong, the lines led by chow, began promoting the annual commemoration. the 1st and bay ging impose the national security law. here shall at the time yearly freshen people are even more supportive, our se, but the support as last expressive, is actually gone beyond just the remembrance of cameron is also goes to the heart

of what hong kong, where do we still have the fight? right in the hot weather we are still missing. we are, we can still to serve our pre freedom by our own action. also, we actually had a great that the people who are already arrest custody but their hands are large. the tide, police have been digital for the 2nd year in a row, citing koby safe to restrictions. although other mass gatherings like concerts and soccer matches, have resumed. just 2 days before the anniversary, the alliances june, 4th museum museum commemorating the events of 1989, was close down due to a licensing investigation by the authorities. many of the organizations lead members are in jail for protesting, including chairman the truck, young. we spoke to the veteran activist, shortly before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. we are in the darkness we

are like in a tunnel, but if everyone still come up with a candle that this is through that we are looking for. i believe in the people who call we listen truth, make sure that the hong kong people know that we never give up even though maybe we have to go to jail for the alliance. it's not just about commemorating the protests of $989.00 foot about being able to be sent to be able to call for an into one party rule for democracy processor and l. label to subversion. by being james, it could be a reason to outlaw the activism and the alliance itself. we are not south we, there's no question, not the government one to get the case. not insisting on some slogan, awesome. from principle. the risk is what we are doing. sincerely fighting for the end of one talking dictatorships. there we always do that,

which is really kind of why by just like quasi, i wonder whether this happened. sure. now or as it's a long way away, it depends on how hot recent research, right workers at the alliance, june, 4th, me see him happy and preserving the chinaman square exhibits in digital format. if china continues to close down all avenues, the physical protests in hong kong, moving historical evidence to an online museum, may end up being one of the last remaining ways of showing persistence. and for more, let's bring in d. w. hong kong correspondent, phoebe con, who put that piece together for us to join us now. phoebe, the arrest of chow hung tongue. just walk us through the significance of this move and what signal it sends to the pro democracy movement. and hong kong was 37 year old lawyer is one of the common and accidents in hong kong. also cool member of the annual kind of life visual automatic stations. as mentioned in the

reports that she has been engaging in chinese human rights and also local well, it all time which is pretty high profile on these a, on the anniversary of the 10 now, which is one of the most in a political to do in china that i read actually is a warming sense by the authority to the democracy camp and also the general public in hong kong with a hold that thought he's not going to tolerate any kind of memory. not only that go into the kennel life the job, but also going out individuals who want to sustain that kind of commend relation. so this is definitely torrance, on the sensitive base that you want to spam out all kinds commemoration on and kind of piece of morning that about these very like the some of the com,

the party that a chinese party. so the official band is that in place, talk with us about the mood are people still determined to gather well, the route is really 10 days or even weeks ahead of the 3, the local community and the government. all like, cussing about like whether it's the legal to commemorate june for 10 of them. now in hong kong in 2021 and many officials have been wanting to pub, especially the lawyer or the police officers. they, they're willing to help me not to take a risk and then doing themselves by putting themselves in like kind of like a possible sense of the public already been and also the national institute and all

of this is the best and events received implementation of the national security law, but i'll put some activists with that. are you wanting to carry on the commemoration by maybe setting up some food later on in home home today on the street and from church at holding? i can visual on pay and gathering but being that premise, but they're all 15 police actually deployed up to 7000 offices today. just took off every call in the home come in, especially the now fans can leverage and value the talk. they have already talk to really try to stop anyone to carry on this kind of picture today. but we, i expecting to see some kind of the bias and we will see how the going to be at that they have already. and to me, and they're not coming out today against that backdrop phoebe,

i'd like to ask you more broadly speaking, give us a sense of where the democratic movement stands right now in hong kong. because so many key organizers have been arrested in recent months when they map at the counter how, how have you. they have to placing a rounds and rounds upset over the past year. the next, the national, the law, many of the parties. last all of his friend that and now even the most common and high senior members of the market, like like she like what, like the high season for these 2 years or even longer charges of the national law as coming up. that will be child this month. will be the child national educational case. and so there was a really mythic and chilly, looming host that people are really fearful about any kind of action. like because

the thought they're not carrying out kind of feel tolerance policy that anyone want to come out. they will go off and so it's really hard for an individual or even an accident to carry on the movement. but i think people like the interviews, we have talked to many a members from the can. they say they will find ways of save a ways or more innovative ways to hopefully to continue in the movement on the ground. have kong in hong kong. thank you. and here are some other stories making news. the tains journalist, rama product savage has appeared on bell ruffian state television, apparently confessing to his role in anti government protests in an interview. the

opposition says that the interview was conducted under the rest. he and his girlfriend have been in detention since may 23rd. when their flight was forced to land in minsk, russian police have released a well known opposition politician from custody after holding him for 2 days. dmitri good coff has been planning to run in september's parliamentary election. russian authorities have been cracking down on descent ahead of those elections. us intelligence officials say that there is no evidence that a series of an identified object seen by navy pilots for alien spacecraft. as according to the new york times, holding a report to be sent to congress, officials said that the aerial phenomenon were not secret u. s. technology, but could have come from a rival power. sri lanka 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 here the capital colombo, where it partially sank. following a day's long fire sri lanka, plans to sue the ships operator though it says that the real cost may be incalculable. india has dispatched vessels to help the clean up and prepare for a possible oil. spill the ghostly rec. still smoldering now sunk into the sea floor, attempts to turn the vessel to deep water failed. it may have to be broken apart in its place. the ship's operator says most of the fuel and toxic cargo burnt in the blaze, but authorities are 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 of one year, 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 that. if that's not possible,

we can drop oil dispersed from the air, you know, even at sun beaches a long sure lank is western coastline have been coded by billions of plastic pellets. similar scenes could come to other nations shore lines, as current carried the waste across the indian ocean. environmentalists describe the other leak substances as a chemical soup. and we found the number of very hazardous chemicals, more than 8 the containers of hazardous chemicals that include sodium, metal oxide, and copper sleggs, lead in gods and nitric acid and lot of plastics. and also the books, if they seems fishing has been banned, a long, large stretches of the shoreline can coastline fishermen fear for their health and their livelihoods normally to follow. they have told us to fish at least 15

kilometers away. we went and put our 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 blades was likely caused by the chemical ca, the captain. in some crew members have been barred from leaving shore lanka, i made a criminal investigation into the country, the worst maritime environmental disaster. the u. k. has taken portugal off of its so called green list, a handful of countries, not requiring travelers to quarantine on their return. the british transport minister called it a difficult vision that comes amid concern over corona virus infection, numbers that are rising again in portugal. both lisbon and britain tourism industry have criticized the move. the change will come into effect. that's 5 o'clock

central european time on tuesday. and from our let's bring in correspondence. matthew has the view from london, so you're going to tell us corona cases are still relatively low in portugal, and many brits are vaccinated. so why this decision it's a big disappointment for, for british holidaymakers the expectation. the hope was that more countries would be opening up, that there isn't really a chance to, to go on holiday in europe unless you are prepared to quarantine. so the concerns with a new variance goes to show how much the british government still fear is the new very. and the virus really evolving because here in the u. k, we know that the so called indian though, in so called delta very and actually is quite a lot more aggressive. this is what new data is suggesting, leads to more hospitalizations and still the,

the always on how well the vaccinations are working. they seem to be working, but it is more aggressive and it's spreading also in schools. so the, you can government is concerned that as a new variance could be brought into the u. k. and they prioritize the opening up of the economy and the society was in the u. k. and trying to, to shelter basically from new variance. so how is the tourism industry then reacting to the decision and how big is the blow for british travelers? it is a huge blow for the u. k. tourism economy. and we know for example, the easy chief he said that that it cuts britain off from the rest of the world and travellers of course they all still holding out many people here in the u. k. were hoping to go and travel to europe over the summer, see the friends and see the family get a little bit of sunshine now every 3 weeks, these decision over which countries are allowed to travel to without quarantine,

when coming back as a revision. so all hope is not lost, but definitely it's quite a negative signal. and i think a lot of bridge would be quite pessimistic when it comes to contemplating having some time in the sun over the summer to what does it mean for relations between brits and the rest of europe? you think well, it could be seen a little bit as an anti cyclical decision because the rest of europe is trying to open up for, for the summer holidays. and it could be seen as britain basically cutting itself off. but i would assume that the fear in europe is that maybe what britain this doing is, is something that could happen in europe as well. and, and i think they obviously european lawmakers will be watching with opening up with in europe is sustainable over the long term over or whether,

what britain this doing, being very cautious is something they will be forced to also adhere to later on in the year. so definitely i think they'll be watching what's happening in the u. k. their get math with the view from london. thank you. and here are some other stories making news. the white house of the now said plan to give away millions of doses of corona, virus vaccines. initially, the u. s. will donate 25000000 vaccines. they will be distributed to countries in south and central america, africa, and asia, through the global vaccine sharing initiative. kovacs overall, the u. s. plans to donate 80000000 vaccines by the end of june, greece has begun a vaccination campaign for asylum seekers living in often over crowded camps on it's on the island. vaccines have already been offered to the general public for stuff, month. the greek government has been criticized for being slow to inoculate,

migrants, many living in unsanitary conditions. germany has officially acknowledged that it committed genocide during its colonial era occupation of namibia and announced a financial settlement totaling 1100000000 euros that some will be spent over the next 30 years on infrastructure health care and training programs benefiting the herero. and now my communities, but many representatives are not happy with the deal and are protesting. he w correspondent, adria increased reports. this is an emotional place for many herero. they come back regularly to visit this tree in the village of ot, janine hundreds of herero prisoners of war were hanged here by german troops. used to go through the nic and in the hang them.

sadness. certainly anger. yes, no dot. not a human being could actually be doing this for what reason for the reason that all on sisters simply stood up in diffuse to give up what belong to them, namely, violette. more than a 100 years ago, german soldiers killed almost 800000 herero, a norma in the former colony of german sides, west africa. in 1984 lotor von trotter gave the extermination order. it included women and children. no germany wants to recognize this as a genocide and has pledged 1100000000 euros for development projects. that's what the government negotiated with recro. that's a deal between 2 governments and development aid. it has nothing to do with

our demand for the parishes. we are fully us for a curl, a former attorney general in namibia and his supporters are still considering legal actions. but previous attempts have already failed in several us courts. we are on our way to the village of wilcox lora, 2 hours away by car. here to the majority of the population is herero. and there are several traditional leaders on the bottom own. she didn't ship think your existence, but you don't see him as much. he's not, he's not that i'm not seeing, he's not the traditional leaders here don't share a singular viewpoint, some support recur legal actions. others are in favor of the deal negotiated by the government. some others want to renegotiation prioritizing more money for this per region. unfortunately, the negotiating did not come back to us to tell us how did the german government

arrived at the futures, the have concluded. so i'm not yet of the opinion that i did to go many should go ahead with the, with the agreement until the consensus with the affected community. i back in jeanine power, my chief for courage and his followers say they will protest further. they want reparation. and negotiation. when nearly 2 weeks ago africa's most active volcano erupted in eastern democratic republic of congo, the city of goma was flooded with lava and thousands of locals were forced to flee the area. now people are slowly beginning to return, looking for what remains of their homes and their livelihoods. w correspondent, mario miller is in the city to meet with some of those who have been infected. the mazique of homes was lost. everything. her house where she lives with her children

and her family business, the entire life she had carefully built up over the years, consumed by flames in a matter of seconds. so again, we decided to flee, hoping that lava would not affect our house. but on sunday when he came back, everything was gone and we were left with nothing. she had no time to take any belongings with her. now she is living with friends that could only take 2 of her 10 children, the others i was neighbors. one here, one human one, okay, i'm on a low. it's making me very sad. there's nothing i can do about it. like must be got over 4000 people have lost their homes and the entire livelihood. some of them contrast at friends, houses or in nearby tones, but now they depend on humanitarian assistance in order to survive me. why was

there no warning for goma? about 2000000 people live in the area. the director of the coma volcano laboratory says the world bank did not renew the funding for the work. with no funds they were unable to monitor the volcano properly. in october, the internet was cut off that caused problems. we have stations that 150 kilometers away, but then we didn't have enough fuel to get there. but because you know, from when the internet is working, the observatory receives data from sensors on the volcano. every 4 minutes for 7 months, that was not the case that everyone knew that we didn't have the means that we worked with difficulties. but some vulcan ologist say there were a clear signs that they will cain or could erupt in the next few years. civil society activists say the aimless, squarely with the government and the goma volcano observatory itself,

the saki called over there, they went and corrected. if they didn't spend money, or full j founded by bank they, we could prevent the dead. my dad right now, my father who is responsible, all she cares about is trying to rebuild her life. not being in the z. what there is nowhere else. i can go. there's only one goma. there's only here for me to stay with my children. i get to know what the like my figure, the people of goma live under the shadow of one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. they can only hope the city will be better prepared by the next time it erupt. this is the news. a quick reminder of our top stories, police and hong kong have arrested a prominent pro democracy activists on the 32nd anniversary of china's beginning square crackdown. chow hong kong is known for leading a vigil on this day,

the victims, the mastercard. the next on the w to the point where the panel is discuss this year's tokyo olympics. it should indeed go ahead more on our website, w dot com. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thanks for watching the news . the news the news, the news, [000:00:00;00]

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but they are the rise to the on the scene. our new global 3000 theories about the threats we are facing. and the heroes taking a stand for over $3000.00 theories starts june 21st on d w. the just weeks to go now to the beginning of the summer olympics in japan. preparations though, have been hard hit by the cove it 19 pandemic, and as many as 80 percent of the japanese say they want the olympics cold off. but the japanese government and the international olympic committee insist the huge event will go ahead. even it's no foreign spectators and the athletes competing empty stadiums. many a wondering what's the point and our giant sports events like the olympics,