companies and countries leasing everything, making later changes were made on workable if a massive cyber attack or something like that happens and we can all right, good our country from the outside a, it's our future after all. and if we don't do something, our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air for europe revealed starts november 3rd on d. w with you're watching g w news, asia coming up a sign o british snap food in manchester, that is quickly spinning into a diplomatic fight. we explain the chinese attempt to suppress freedom of expression on you, k soil and in southeast asia. how a maritime dispute with china impacts the lives of fishermen in the philippines.

ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. a protest in the u. k. against chinese liter sheeting ping and the communist party has spun into a high level diplomatic route. people outside the chinese consulate in manchester, many of them from hong kong, were accosted by chinese officials beaten, and in one case dragged into the grounds of the consulate. ah, around 40 people, including hong kong, exiles and britain, were protesting outside the consulate in manchester. the demo was aim to coincide with the communist parties twice a decade. congress in beijing at which he camping is set to secure an unprecedented 3rd leadership term. things escalated quickly for to chose a man in a bray,

apparently consul general jung, show you an approach the protest and kicked down a pro democracy sign. does a flurry of movement and scuffles at the consulate gates. oh, the police arrive and tried to break up the ruckus. i don't we see a protester on the ground inside the consulate being kicked and punched by a group of men. oh, he's then broad eyed by british police and fellow demonstrators. i later at a press conference with british parliamentarians, the victim of the attack, bob chan said he was shocked. it had happened number of your soil in my i left hong kong because of the national security law. it meant drastic changes to the freedoms we enjoy. and hong kong and how we live our lives. china's foreign ministry accused disturbing elements of illegally entering the consulate and such as lodged

a formal complaint with britain council john later defended pulling the protesters, hair, telling sky news. he was just doing his duty as chan was abusing his country and his leader under she, jim ping relations between britain, hong kong, colonial ruler until 1997 and china have been particularly tense. she organized a severe crackdown on hong kong democracy movement, culminating a national security law that has drastically curtailed democratic freedoms in the city. joining us as dw correspondent clifford kuhn an author of report. clifford, how serious is this incident in manchester? i mean, you k, china relations have not been well for some time. i think this is utterly extraordinary. i mean, here you have a job show you on who's the am the console in manchester and missing on a national broadcaster in his host country that he grabbed

a protester an into the council ground and, and oversold while he was giving a thrashing. i mean, this is, i can't think of, of where this would happen. it's incredibly unusual behavior. and it's quite arrogant and offensive behavior in diplomatic terms. and it's also baffling in many ways. i mean, why, why would he admit this? and am it takes his whole wolf warrior diplomacy thing that we've seen evidence of in china a lot over the last few years. it takes it to a whole new level. i mean, this is beyond angry statements. this is literally dragging somebody off the street as we saw and the photograph and the report and am and you know, overseeing of other get beaten up. and a lot of the participants of the protest appear to have come from hong kong. which underscores the vulnerability of this group of people in the u. k. that they're still being targeted extra territorially, do you have a sense of whether the british government is doing anything about this? well i think, i think that's definitely true. i think we saw with the am,

with the victim, you know, he's from hong kong and he spoke of how he had, he thought he put that national security law behind him when he got on the plane to the u. k. am. and instead here he is, you know, it's, it's sort of a, an attack on sovereignty in many ways. and i think this is where it's going to be in the, the u. k. will have to act. and what a can do is offer the protections that it, that it can am obviously, since the 1997 hand over and you case influence in hong kong has been less. but it's showing that by offering on calling people the right of abode in, in the u. k. that a can do something by providing a safe haven. but it becomes very working now to show that they can protect those people and indeed their families when and when this sort of thing happens. and given the current chaos, if the u. k. government, or you can well imagine how distracted they are on domestic affairs to really not be able to focus on foreign policy and including with this snafu. so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out over the next few days. i am curious about

looking at the situation where we see chinese attempts to suppress free speech in the u. k. a. we see them trying to do this in other places. how bad is the situation getting? well, this is one of the worst we've seen in europe. i mean we've, we've seen things where they put pressure in australia. we've seen the pressure in lithuania, in trade terms. but in terms of, in diplomatic terms, this is a really, really very much a hands on sort of incident. and so i think there's growing signs of this happening . and i'm with the sort of political mess that you see in the u. k. and also the divisions say within the e u, it's very difficult to get a unified response from western countries to what is ultimately an attack on sovereignty. and i think this is something that is possibly going to get worse before it gets better. yeah, i mean, there's a lot of a focus on universities in the u universities in the united states. but this is

very in your face. and literally somebody out there dragging a protester. it's all happening. of course, in this big week where she ging ping is going to be made leader for life with his 3rd term. or what do we know about that in terms of hints of where the country a china is going where he's going to take it. what has he said so far? well, so far we've seen a lot of indications that he's trying to show that he's, he's keeping things on an even keel. and people are looking for information everywhere in a, in a, in, for his, essentially in information vacuum because i'm thing send to be wrote speeches and whatever. there's been issues about 0 covey is a big factor because the economy is slowing down. people are looking for a way out of the economic morass and the congress itself. i mean, the timing of this incident with the congress is, in some ways a chimes with this growing nationalistic fervor that you're seeing in china at the moment. not that there's necessarily a link because i think possibly this council has actually overreached himself on

may find himself withdrawn after this, because this is timing in terms of, you know, they're busy and in beijing and i think it's gonna, they're gonna have to see that out. before they can actually take these situations outside of beijing any further, yet a little bit of a distraction that aging might not be entirely as happy as the console was hoping it would be covered, couldn't. and thank you so much for joining us. ah, on to a, another dispute involving china. this one with the philippines. the 2 countries disagree where china's maritime borders extend with bay gene, claiming a vast oceanic territory that reaches deep down into southeast asia along what it calls it's 9 dash line. not only the philippines, but other countries of south east asia, reject this claim. meanwhile, the live to reality of this dispute plays out among philippine fishermen whose

livelihoods and safety are impacted by this geopolitical fight. these other waters of the south china sea that fishermen in the north of the philippines have been making their living off for generations. but china's expansionism in the area is threatening their livelihoods. it started 10 years ago when mary l villa, monty's boat was chased away by the chinese in one of his main fishing grounds. a reef rich and fish and marine life called scarborough, shall i all bubble dominions? got a moral. we were going to the scarborough show when the chinese coast guard blocked us malignant. i may been alarming. and then when we were already retreating, they water canada for 2 minutes, and they kept on following us for 5 miles to make sure we didn't go back there any more. i'm alex, is that a little the number of fish mario villa monte catches has decreased significantly. since the chinese boats have restricted access to the best fishing ground,

but getting back as too risky, they leave last monday at the little. what if they rammed us? our boat is made of wood and their ship is made of metal. so we don't stand a chance in the board and i'm in china claim sovereign, she to over 80 percent of the south china sea. and under the leadership of she's in ping, it has dramatically expanded its presence here. hundreds of chinese, navy and coast guard vessels, petrol, the waters, swarming reefs, and harassing and attacking filipino votes. 6 years ago the philippines brought a case against china before an international court. a tribunal ruled that beijing had been unlawful in its occupation of filipino fishing grounds. but china has ignored the ruling. china's land grab, has robbed christopher de vera of a large part of his income as he and all as i get the la garza not being allowed to fish, there is hurting me. imagine they are,

the early ones allowed to fish inside the shoulders and even though the scarborough shoal is ours, a someone balance tharp in angus got award was held on me that young on top of that chinese clam harvest, does have destroyed the coral on the reef. and decimated, fish stocks to vera says, you know, one. but despite that, some members of his crew have gone fishing now under the cover of darkness lugging to top up. their otherwise measly hole are not always there. it feels like being a thief in your own back yard. all of the fishermen here, that's how we feel like we are foreigners visiting a country and they are not letting us in life, not responding. this being ours allows us. i mean, i'm in but with asian countries divided on how to respond to china. there is no serious challenge to beijing's expansionism. for christopher de vera and mary of lemon take fishing is all they've ever known. their only hope now is that china won't lay claim to even more of their fishing grounds. that's

all for thursday. be sure to check out our website in social media will levy with pictures from india of celebrations, following the selection of a new party near melick cards. and cargo for the opposition congress party is the 1st time in more than 2 decades where the party will not be led by a member of the gandhi or narrow political dynasty. thank you for watching a, [000:00:00;00]

with a, with, with people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away as the border families playing on the tax in syria,

with people lean extreme around around $200.00 people. ah, around the world, more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines with big money for a big transition, the united states is spending almost $3000000000.00 to boost battery production for electric vehicles. we'll take a look at what europe aims to do to be less relied on critical raw materials coming

from china and russia. also coming up chinese dominance on the solar photovoltaic market is something that an international ally and working this wants to change. we're going to work from our correspondent on how i'm course cobra. welcome to the program. electric mobility is to do the trick, keeping us going without destroying our climate. now you as president joe biden has unveiled his strategy to boost battery production for electric vehicles, announcing $2800000000.00 in grants. to 20 companies for projects, extract and process lithium graphite and other on materials to manufacturer components, and strengthen your supply of critical minerals, boosting production and sales of electric vehicles. as a key part of kind strategy shift to a slow climate change and build up where you as manufacturing talk some say