jewish and the 2 part documentary starts july 5th on dw i i use this is e double the newsletter from berlin. editorial staff at hong kong pro democracy newspaper, apple daily arrested in a massive police. right. and accused of colluding with foreign powers. also on the program, communist east germany, secret police care, millions of files on ordinary citizens, not the agency that holds those records is being closed down. so where does that leave the stars these victims? china celebrates act. 3 of its asked notes presented new,

unfinished space station. mission ended challenging us dominance in space. and denmark return to action that the european championships 5 days after seeing 1st young attics and collapse on the page. we'll find out how the team is feeling about return to the see the me i feel welcome to the program. china is the crowd down on descent in hong kong is intensifying 500 police officers this morning, right of the officers of the pro democracy newspaper. apple daily arrested 5 executives including the papers, the top to editors. authorities accused the paper of breaching a national security law imposed by beijing. a crackdown on journalists in broad daylight. hong kong police rated the offices of the pro democracy newspaper,

apple daily, and arrested. several executives, including the editor in chief, at their homes. officials accused the journalists of being involved in an illegal conspiracy, although not a secret one. their transgressions relate to their public support for sanctions on china. feel onto mobile mena. are investigations found that through apple, daily newspaper and online platform, there were around 30 articles on both chinese and english, which requested foreign countries and institutions to impose sanctions on hong kong as well as china, dating back to 2019 home go home. i don't want them to log off at a press conference. hong kong security chief, john lee warned other journalists present not to defend those. arrested on potter. it is your choice whether you regard them as part of you who globe your journalistic work lawfully and properly.

apple daily belongs to the media conglomerate of jimmy ly, who was the 1st high profile hong kong are to be arrested under the new security law imposed by beijing. apple daily has provided extensive coverage of the crackdown on the pro democracy movement as of thursday evening. its website was up and running. the paper staff published in editorial there reassuring their reader is that, though we are facing a sweeping clamp down on our publication, the staff of apple daily will hold fast to our duties faithfully and press on till the end to see the arrival of don b, w correspondent, phoebe kong in hong kong says the rate on apple daily was given the go ahead by the territories judicial system. the unprecedented arrest and rights insight. i put any newspaper headquarters for the face targeting me,

their coverage under the national security law. what makes it even more exceptional you stop police were given called for him for the 1st time to seize juggling, take materials for investigation, raising further concerns of erosion of press, freedom in home comb. although they thought he has tried to reassure them that it has nothing to do with press freedom is actually accused. i put a newspaper as a whole publishing, also some online and printed articles, calling for international sanctions against china and hong kong. they've been back to 2019 and 2 recent period of time. i'm met, people are getting more fearful that the southern route line is going to impact all walks of life in hong kong. after a year of implementation of the sweeping legislature, she become in hong kong. well, tom grundy is the editor in chief of the hong kong free press. he joins us for more on this story. welcome today w. what have you heard about what happened at apple daily's offices of

500 police deployed this morning in the early hours they went through repulsive computers. a lot of this was the live stream by stop. they seized a 40 p c in the 5 hour raid and they came after the police broke into the flats and rated in a morning rate, arresting 5 executives, some of them were hancock's and paraded around the newsroom national security chief . the really thing that this related to 30 articles and all some of them they came back to before the national security with an active. and he said that they related to calling for the country to impose sanctions on hong kong. so although apple daily were rated last olga and connection to jimmy ly, that hiker an owner, or found a rather the 1st time that we, we've seen a newsroom rate over a media organizations, output it content. yeah. and so that is you say that the charge is that those

articles endanger national security. i'm, i went to, does it make people like yourself as, as a pro democracy outlet? does that make you wonder about your own future? they're in the territory. well, let me add, we're not a pro democracy outlet, we're an impartial, non profit news organization. and for that reason, i am sure you know we're going to be okay, but well, i think all of us would like to see, clarified is what exactly the 30 articles were with a hard news pieces with a opinion pieces, or were they at a tauriel the voice of the newspaper, unless that have clarified, i concede, is having a chilling effect, you know, across the industry. but when we have put this question and when other the us into the security chief to the national security chief, you know, the media and public just told to obey the law and we're not getting any clarity on that. like a lot of the media here. i plan at the moment is to simply keep calm and carry on

a path for the worth hope for the best. and i get the news out, i suppose. can i for daily keep going with its assets frozen, and equipment seized? that's a good question. for them they, they want to say, you know, the show goes on for them to put out a prince edition, particularly tonight is quite symbolic and important because they don't particularly make money. they shut down the taiwanese print edition just weeks ago . but with it being the last pro democracy daily in hong kong, they're going to be putting out hall for 1000000 copies overnight. we've got a staff member there this evening to witness this because the way hong kong they tend to respond as they did last august, is to basically white the shelves of the apple daily in the morning in lieu of their being any protest at the moment, particularly during cove, it, this is one way on congress of have found to express their support and their discontent. i imagine so for them the show goes on and read of. they have said that

they will buy apple daily even if they lank. good talking to you. thank you so much for joining us. tom grant from hong kong, free press will take a look now at some of the stories that are making news around the world. german biomedical company called evac and stuff and a setback in its attempts to develop a cove in 1900 faxing engine data suggest the company's drug may be only 47 percent effective, a curative accent. that study has been hampered by the broad range of corona virus variance, several airlines and banks in the worlds of experience. websites and app outages. companies affect it include us airlines, delta and american, and southwest, as well as commonwealth bank and the whole comb stuff exchange. no cause as yet be identified. supporters the former ivory coast president lauren back bow preparing to welcome him home 10 years after he was sent to the international criminal court

on war crimes charges later acquitted his former rival president unassigned with tara. what tara invited him back in the name of reconciliation. what about the police here in germany say to people, have been shot dead in an incident in ashville camp, a town of about 25000 in the western state of north ryan west failure. special police command, those are at the scene offices from across the region and now hunting what we understand to be a single suspect d w corresponding to m a chart this following this story. welcome and i bring this up today. well for you please responded earlier today to an emergency call from the city center and they responded to the call and they found 2 crime scenes with 2 victims of those killings. one man and one woman, one person was found dead inside the house and another on outside of that house

which made it then 2 different crime scene with the suspect being as to lodge, according to a police spokesperson and the police court from the nearby city of be the fellow we chose so joined in the, in the small town of boot camp. this is in those trying to follow the out in the weston in western germany. it's the town of around $26000.00 inhabitants. so quite small. so it's quite a commotion with all the police units coming, gathering. there's been a helicopter, also patrolling around the area to try and catch the suspects, which is, who is like i said, see that large and who is maybe as to what's being said about a motive? well, this is too early to, to know about a mode save. apparently, police ruled out a terrorist attack. it seems to be

a crime to are still investigating. and like i said, a you need from other towns have been teaming up or we see police in the camp to try and find the suspect. so there's a bred operation to ongoing in the region of no form with far. yeah, right now. ok, thank you for that. i. michelle ok chapter. have germany's recent histories coming to an end, the secret files of the stars in the intelligence service of the communist, former east germany, a being transferred to the country's national archives. the agency that preserves them is being dis dissolve. this does, he was notorious for surveillance of any east german population. communism collapsed in 1989 civil rights activists prevented the destruction of many of the files given victims and perpetrators. a chance to confront you want to ring the bell? i didn't do my

review. i read the door there, old building and he and then they lived here when they were young allies that will anything but private to vendor. then all the place to start the informa spied on them from across the courtyard. back when this tree was much smaller. how did you see stones, the people standing magical? now, i just found that when i read about it, we would never thought about it. the thought of them standing there. now. thus on. the dash dotty files contain hundreds of pages intercepted letters and informers reports, including even an offers apartment layout of ation recorded april 30th, 1987 and the light was on in the kitchen and the window was half open. took off

roughly 50 minutes later, the light went out and they left the apartment alone. she headed on foot in the direction of the son of a st. subway. game and had my son looked into my life and i had no idea what they described me as a person from that perspective. but it wasn't a very friendly one. i know the mission was on the pointless last star. it said that i live with this one subsidy in my experience and you get through life just as well, or even better. and when you adjust to a situation with negative, given leaps, just cultural. but why with a to women spite on and they became from the provinces to east berlin and found good jobs here working for the east german state newspaper, northeast georgia and new germany. but they made a fateful move. they tried to leave the country from 976

onwards, circle or fall and in nevada applied again and again to leave. always giving the same reason is lifeline. dec. i do not believe trustworthiness of discovery. i have seen firsthand how little human rights are respected in east germany, that in these days they tell people born after the war came down, having risked life and limb to leave east germany. oh, i didn't want someone else to decide where i lived here, leave me. i have a certain point. so i had enough and then i thought, well, no, i want, i want to make sure the loss is 2500 and for that desire they almost ended up in prison. this is the w news life from burn and still to come. denmark, a face belgium, euro 2025 days after danish make feel that christian alex and collapsed on the

pitch after suffering of cardiac arrest. the president of the united states and russia have described a vast summit in geneva as positive. it was the 1st meeting between joe biden and vladimir putin since mister barton became president. and relations between the 2 countries is said to be at rock bottom is by agreeing to hold more to.