tonight, india's move to strip kashmir of its special status. pakistan is bowing to fight the decision. tensions are rising and concern is growing this could lead to a military conflict. beijing warns hong kong protesters punishment is coming. police make mass arrests as ongoing clashes with

pro-democracy demonstrators plunge the city into crisis. plus, a case of fraud off the pitch. former top german football officials are charged with corruption. did they buy germany's right to host the 2006 world cup? also on the show tonight, the world loses a beloved author. nobel laureate writer toni morrison whose novels exploring african-american identity gave voice to millions, has died at the age of 88. i'm brent goff. two viewers on pbs in the u.s. and all around the world, welcome. tonight, there are new worries of a political and maybe military firestorm over kashmir. yesterday, india's

hindu-nationalist-led government revoked kashmir's special status by the. -- by repealing article 370 of the constitution. earlier today, pakistan's army said it would go to any extent necessary to support the contested territory. >> residence in pakistani controlled kashmir have been making their anger clear. india says it is revoking article 370 of its constitution, which gives the region more freedom to make its own laws compared with other indian states. in neighboring pakistan, politicians have been meeting to discuss their response. >> they will take action against us, and we will respond. it cannot be possible that they attacked us and we don't retaliate. what will happen next? things will be even more aggravated.

when both of us keep reacting, it could lead to a conventional war. >> people living in kashmir fear india's decision to remove the region's autonomous status could stoke tensions even further. activists say they will do whatever it takes to oppose thth changes. >> this is a question of our political existence, of our identity. i don't think we can take it easy. >> but the indian government shows no signs of backing down. >> it is an integral part of india. there is no legal or constitutional dispute about it. >> left-wing activists in india have been protesting against their government's actions, but right-wing hindu nationalists have been celebratating. the r region has lonong been a a sosource of tension. kashmir shares a border with india and pakistan.

both claim it as their territory but only control papart of it. china alsoo claims a section and has criticizeded india for stripping the region of its autonomy. beijing has been warned kashmir is an internal matter. folks have said they are committed to maintaining peace in the border areas. brand: josh brent: for more on what is happening an -- brent: y next guest joins me for more on what is happening in kashmir. this standstill has been in place for seven years and no india has decided to revoke the status. why now? >> prime minister modi, simply put. he has just the one his second term in office and oncncto implement his party's agenda. it is a long-standing demand

that article 370 should be scrapped, so he is just fulfilling the agenda and promises. print: and -- brand: and putting the country on a conflict course with pakistan. >> not only pakistan. china sees itself also involved in this conflict. it is not a two have been party -- it is not a two-party conflict. in many ways, it is a three-party conflict. brent: we have heard pakistan may bring this to the security council. >> it should be debated. in many ways, it is a matter for international peace. but much more is what will these great powers do? the united states but also

russia, china. they have their own interests. brent: china has some sway, as you say, but the rest of the powers, how much influence do they really have on india at this point? >> they have influence on pakistan, the united states in particular. united states needs pakistan right now in order to solve the crisis in afghanistan. to get out of afghanistan is mr. trump's agenda. india is in a difficult position regionally right now. it was always pakistan that was isolated, and maybe now it is the other way around. brent: pakistan and india are nuclear powers. is that an insurance policy that they will not go to war over this?

>> it is not. we have seen numerous crises over the last years, mostly because insurgents or terrorists supported by pakistan were active in kashmir. brent: do you think they will go to war? we have about 15 seconds. do you think this will end in a military conflict? >> no. i think there are soso many countries involved they will be able to prevent it. let's hope. brent: we appreciate your insights tonight. thank you. china has issued a stark warning to pro-democracy activists in hong kong a day after a strike that paralyzed the territory. a government spokesman in beijing says punisishment is coming in that activists should not underestimate the strength of the central government. he described the activists as a violent criminals and vowed they

would be held accountable. hong kong's government also warned that ongoing demonstrations could threaten the territory's prosperity, but some protesters are vowing to press on with their flight for democratic reforms. earlier, we spoke with the head of one activist group who outlined his plans for thehe wes ahead. > protests will continue. even as clashes hapappened, silelenced majority'y's stand oe sidelines. coununcil members and d lawyersl have decided this rally. tomorrow we will go to the international hong kong airport and continue our protest. we will continue until the first of october, chinese national day. brent: that was activist joshua wong speaking earlier today from hong kong. the united nations refugee agency says the new italian law

penalizing migrant rescue ships could stop lives from being saved. monday, italy raised the fine on unauthorized s ships entining is wawaters to one e million euros. ship captains bringing rescued migrants to italy also face arrest. the u.n. said the activities of rescue ships should not be criminalized. a german citizen with turkish roots has reportedly been arrested. german media say the man was visiting family but was detained when he arrived at the airport. he has been accused of spreading terrorist propaganda on facebook . germany's foreign ministry says it has been informed of thee arrest. the united states says i it will use every appropriate tool to oust venezuela president nicolas maduro. the comments from the white house came as the u.s. ramped up sanctions on maduro and his government. the sanctions are aimed at cutting off foreign money to the venezuelanan government. human rights activists have helped prevent a chinese national from the muslim minority uighur community from

being deported to china from qatar after a video of the man pleading for help went viral on social media. our reporter is here to bring us this story. tell us -- how did this all come about? the video was was saved this person, right? >> yes, he is part of the uighur muslim majority from china but has been living in pakistan. he was trying to get to bosnia and bosnian authorities decided to deport him, butut not to pakikistan but back to china because of his travel documents. he got as far as the airport. he did not want to go to beijing. he feared for his life. he feared imprisonment or internment, so he decided to record this video. lelet's have auick look at the

video. >> [speakingng foreign lanangua] >> so this video into the going viral, and because of the international attention it got, his deportation was postponed. he was stranded basically for a few days while his future was decided. brent: and he fears for his life if he has to go back to china? >> yes, this community has been the victim of crackdown for a while now. they have been put in the so-called education centers. beijing says this is basically a voluntary vocational training camp, but indications show that people are not there

voluntarily. they are being arbitrarily detained. they have even been labeled concentration camps. this video was initially picked up by a rights activists. we talked to him earlier today. he told us why this man wawanted toto leave daca standnd in the t place.e. >> according to him, uighurs hahave been rounded up to be set back to china for a price. he decided to make the bold leave and make his way to europe . >> we cannot verify these claims, but it's worth noting that i can stand is part of a group of muslim minority -- muslim majority countries that have come out in support of aging when it comes to the treatment of uighur muslims, basically dismissing claims that

they are being held against their will. brand: --brent: is there a happy ending to the story? >> there is. there was a tweet a few hours ago tweeting that uses -- that yusef is on his way to freedom. brent: so we do not know where he is going? >> well, we do. moments later there was a tweet saying he was on his way to washington, d.c. brent: going to the u.s. interesting. fascinating story. thank you very much. now to what is being described as five g in zero g. a new satellite system described as the space data highway is on its way to outer space now. it blasted off from a spaceport in frerench guiana today. the satellites are equipipped wh

ultrafast technology that will help emergency services by transferring data services at any point in birth in almost real time. >> flying at an out the tune of 36,000 kilometers, the relay satellite has a view of large parts of the earth's surface. some of the satellites around the globe with even greater trajectories. it is intended to improve and accelerate data transmission from spapace by using a so-calld laser communication terminal. it can receive data from earth observation satellites through a laser link. then, it immediately forwards the data to the ground station. the system is 100 times faster than high-speed internet. >> it takes several hours

normally. with this, we can cut it down to 10, 20 minutes maybe. >> during floods and other disasters, swift access to satellite data is crucial. radar satellites can see through clouds. they are able to capture the extent of floods over a wide area. emergency support needs this information as quickly as possible. they can then determine the location of the greatest damage and how to get to affected areas . earth observation satellites orbit the globe every 90 minutes , , but they can only send datao earth for r 10 minutes at a tim. the new laser technology extends the transmission time, and users can obtain data more quickly. there are other advantages --

the system is useful for weather services. accurate forecasts rely on hugue amounts of data a from around te world.d. the edr sc satellite works like a lasas nodode i spapa. a sesecond node i is already in place on a telecommunications satellite. together, they form the basis for europe's space data highway. >> the ultimate goal will be to achieve global coverage so that we can transmit imagery that is taken anywhere in the world to europe within quite as i real-time -- quasi-real-time, meaning almost immediately. >> is another satellite is planned to be stationed over asia. after its installation, the system will cover most of the globe. a fourth satellite is already in the works. print -- brent: this is excxcitg

stuff. joining me now is part of the brains behind this new technology. it's good to have you on this show. i described this satellite system at the beginning of the report is on most like 5g technology in zero g. would youu agree it is something like that, but we're talking ababout the speeeed of data transmission? >> exaxaly. it is like space to fiber. we bring the inter-s-satellite linked through a disistance of a few cells: vitor. you can compare it with fiber to your home. brent: my producer was asking, don't we already have this type of fast speed data transmission. if you use google maps, for

example, they can tell you if there is a problem with the road, that you need to take a different route, but it's not real-time transmission, is it? we are talking about with this technology you in working on, this is transmission that happens at the speed -- what? of light almost. >> yes, but in combination with the data relay service. that makes it real different. that is a game changer. normally you have earth observation data and h have to wawait for a polar station. now you can update that and you have 15 minutes for your situation report, which is needed for rescue teams, to give the right picture, to get disaster suppliess sent if y you have a f forest fire or all the disasters which are so ugly now,

and for that now, real-time is a game changer. sentinel is the name of the satellites in orbit. wherever they are. brent: fascinating. is this a big win for european technology? are we seeing european technology show the americacans, the chinines show that it, too, is in the data game? >> absololutely. there is a race, of coururse. data relay sysystems are coming, though the u.s. i is doing that with nasasa, the japanese, but they are, i must say, a little bit behind w what e europe is d. we're doing perfect technology here with the help of german space e agency, wewe developed s

terminalal and are p performing0 links per r month, anand this is tenuous. it is amazing that europe has this technology advantage. brent: i would say congratulations are in order to yoyou and your teteam. once again by joining us tonight, helping us understand the satellite system technology. thank you very much. >> thanks for this. brent: the u.s. and the world and morning, the loss of a literary pioneer. toni morrison has died at the age of 88 after a short illness. she was the first african-american to win the nobel prize for literature. her novels present an unflinching portrayal of the african-american experience in the u.s. with a strong opus on the lives of black women. >> a pinnacle and toni morrison's career. the first african-american nobel literature laureate seeming the presidential award of freedom from america's first african-american president,

barack obama, in n 2012. her path t to success was studdd with obstacles that she overcame with defiance. inspired by her grandfather, as she remembered in n a documenta, released earlier this year. >> my grandfather bragged all the time that he had read the bible,e, and it was illegal in s life to read. ultimately, i knew that words have power. >> before becoming a writer, morrison made her way of the mail-dominated world of new york of. always fearless, she soon realized that she and not the old white males around her, was the smartest person in the room. >> i was more interesting than they were. >> she turned the ststatus quo n its head when she was asked a provocative questioion. >> i know you are sick to dedeah of being labeleded a black writ.

>> well, i'm tired of people asking the question. >> later, oprah winfrey's book club helped toni morrison become a household name. her novels went beyond best-seller status. they contributed to a shift in african-american storytelling, a style that embraced ruthless honesty. toni morrison empowered doubtless readers and will be remembered as a force of nature to the world of literature and beyond. brent: some sports news now. there is news swiss authorities have charged for people in relation to germany's bid to host the 2006 football world cup. to discuss that, i'm joined by a reporter from our sports desk. to german football officials by the right to host the football world cup? >> this is the question it is all coming around.

with regard to today's questions, some of the biggest figures in german football over the last couple of decades are involved in this. you have two former german football association officials charged with this. they have been charged with fraudulently misleading the supervisory body for the 2006 world cup organizing committee. the word fraud sends alarm bells ringing. franz becker is another who is allegedly heavily involved. to explain a little bit more about these charges and where they come from, let's take a look at that right now. >> the men behind a germany's wildly successful hosting of the 2006 world cup are in trouble. on tuesday, the swiss attorney general's office brought charges against former german football association presidents and a former german secretary. they stand accused of falsely

claiming a payment of 6.7 million euros was to partially finance a world cup gala, and an event that never took place. in 2002, the world cup organizing committee received 6.7 million euros from an entrepreneur. the money was transferred to a former qatari fee for -- fifa official who has since been suspended for life due to corruption. in 2005, the df the transfer of 6.7 million euros to fifa, supposedly for the 2006 world cup kickoff gala, but fifa transfer the money directly to louis dreyfus. if friends beckenbauer was charged along with the others and then failed to appear, it

could endanger the entire case. the clock is ticking. >> prosecutors are under time pressure. there are only eight months left under the statute of limitations. it's high time charges are filed. now swiss justice has to hurry to reach a verdict, or the raw charges will have to be dropped. brent: let's look at franz beckenbauer, the utterly paid x point 7 million euros to a qatari executive. is there any speculation over what that payment was supposed to be for? >> there is always speculation in football, and this is no different. i should stress this is speculation, not anything proven in court, but the main theory was that this was used to buy germany's chance to host the

2006 world cup. the executive committee was the body that decided who wouldld ht the world cup, and of course, germany did end up hosting the 2006 world cup. brent: i think any normal person would be asking why beckenbauer was even paying that kind of money in the first place. how big of an issue will this become in german soccer? >> i think this is huge, not just for german soccer, but for germany as a whole. the 2006 1 cup was not just a sports event germany happened to host. it was a real cultural event for everybody that said so much about where modern germany was in the world and where it still is today. multiculturalism, diversity, national pride, the way germans are seen internationally as well, so any kind of tarnish of that memory, anything that brings down that reputation of it is going to affect a people remember it, and that is a very sad and. brent: -- that is a very sad

thing. brent: it is a horrible thought to think that you were almost living a lie. you are watching "dw news" live from berlin. after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day" tonight. a former white supremacist to take us through hate in america and how to change hearts and minds. we will be back. ♪

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