>> this is "dw" news. in washington, d.c., remembering and honoring the civil rights pioneer john lewis. >> ♪ was blind, but now, i see ♪ >> u.s. lawmakers commemorate their late colleague, a protége of dr. martin luther king. in the coming days, the nation

that is been transformed by the black lives matter movement will be able to bid a final farewell. alsoso coming up, t the stars ad stripes lord today as the u.s. was forced to close its consulate in the chinese city -- nh in city. a tit-for-tat response following the chinese mission in houston last week. we will hear from a former u.s. diplomat stationed there. the outbreak on the farm. in southern germany, migrant field workers have posted -- have tested positive for covid-19. are field workers risking their lives to put vegetables on our tables? ♪ welcome. we start tonight with a solemn

tribute to a civil rights' pioneer. lawmakers, friends, and family have been honoring the late congressman, john lewis inside the u.s. capitol building. an invitation-only ceremony y hs been held d to honor mr. lewisis inside the rotunda of the capital. he is the first african-american congressman to live there in state. representative lewis was widely admired for his champion of civil rights and human rights. he died of cancer earlier this month at the age of 80. following the events and washington, d.c. is our bureau chief. good evening to you. it is the third day of commemorations in the united states for this american giant. what happened in washington today? >> he was brought to washington

and ththey drove h his casket ie car alongside black lives matter boulevard. they drove by the martin luther king memorial and then brought him to the capital. he indeed is the first african-american lawmaker, who lies -- to lay in the state capitol rotunda behind me. we saw him being walked up the ststairs in his casket. > that was quite a moment. it is history being made as we watch right now. they are in the rotunda. talk to me a little bit about the significance of congressman lewis for the black lives matter movement. >> right. he is like a man of so many things. he cared about -- he did not only just fighting is a racial and social discrimination, but he fought for women's rights and

gay rights early on. he always included native americans at times when hardly anybody spoke about. when it comes to black lives matter, his legacy is seen a little bit critical by some because he was a strong advocate for non-violent fight against racist discrimination. let's have a look at our report. this is a 100% black owned business. its mission is to bring all kinds of people together. as tributes to john lewis come in from across the country, customers share their thoughts about how the civil rights' activist has affected their lives. >> john lewis, a lot of folks know, is the conscience of congress. knowing that he existed has made me a better man, a better father. i have been able to impart that to my daughters, in part how it is important to stand for

something, to be committed, whatever it might be. for his case, it was for civil rights. not just for black people, but for all people. >> the recent killing of george floyd has brought the fight for civil rights back to the streets. black lives matter has become a -- for protests that often turn violent. >> this is a fight, and it is a war, and it is not something that black people have tried to peacefully end this war. it is not the time for this. we are fighting. >> the lincoln memorial, the site of many historic events. right here at this very spot, john lewis spoke next to civil rights icon martin luther king. he indicated his entire -- he dedicated his entire life to fight racial inequality in a non-violent way. his death came at a time when

many americans think this is not the right response anymore to the ongoing discrimination, especially younger protesters who have the feeling they have to take more forceful actions. but congressman lewis always advocated getting into what he called "good trouble." a tactic that continues to resonate with many african-americans. >> to me, he means the world. as an african-american, someone who believes in his -- someone believes in what he stood for being non-violent, and the things he accomplished during his lifetime that enables me to do what i am able to do right now. >> everyone is getting tired of the social injustices. this is the right approach, peaceful, calm protests. >> we don't need to be violent. need to be persistent. keep at it. >> john lewis himself remained persistent until the end of his life.

talking with us for years ago, he hoped his vision would extend beyond the united states. mr. lewis: if we can get it right in america, maybe we can serve as a model for the rest of the world. >> wise words there from mr. lewis. what would you say -- when you listen to that soundbite from four years ago, talk to me a little bit about what is left of that legacy today in today's america? >> yes, it was indeed four years ago when we met them at the democratic convention, and talk he gave us this soundbite. you see the united states divided deeper than ever before. we see many people whose hope for their american dream to become true is turned into anger and hate. we see street violence. we see the reaction of many

people want to comes to the federal agents, donald trump ascending into cities. they feel provoked that is starting up more violence. on this very day, we remember a man who always preached peace, and it will be interesting to see how his legacy will be carried on. >> it will be. i am sure there are many people hoping there will be a future of good trouble and not a future of just trouble. we will see. thank you. u.s. marines have lowered the american flag and diplomatic staff have left the chinese -- have left the chinese city. beijing ordered the closure in retaliation of washington shutting down of the chinese consulate in houston last week. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo called the facility a center for spies. >> once the u.s. consulate, this

building now stands empty. onlookers gathered to catch a glimpse of the americans leaving. some celebrating their departure. long live the chinese people, shouts one man. the closure of this consulate was no surprise that followed the shuttering of the chinese consulate in houston, texas by the was government last week. washington claimed the consulate had become a hub for spying and attempting to steal coronavirus research. the chinese foreign ministry denied this, and said beijing was not looking for a fight. the current situation with relations between china and the u.s. is unfortunate. the u.s. bears the entire responsibility. we urge the u.s. to immediately correct its mistakes and make it possible for bilateral relations to get back on track. national sentiment is running high on both sides, yet some

residents were disheartened by the sudden end of the diplomatic mission. it is a big deal and it has never happened before. the consulate has been here for several decades. i think it is a will pity to see the current state of affairs. it is a shame. i hope there is no confrontation. we should have peace. that is the best way to do things. the world doesn't need war. needs peace. -- he needs peace paralyze on washington and beijing to see if they will escalate further or look for a truce. >> jeff moon joins us, former u.s. diplomat and trade negotiator. it is good to have you want the program. i just want to ask you what your take is on what we are seeing here with the closure of the consulate in chengdu following

the closure in the mission in houston. do you see this as being more than a tit-for-tat retaliation? jeff: on a tacticical level, its a tit-for-tat retaliation, but in the largerr picture, it is a realal tragedy. this relationshihip in western china has been built over 35 years since president george bush opened it up in 1985. withthin a couple e of dayays, e tornrn that relalationship apar. and it will affect the people, american tiny peopople, as wells a governments. the chinese people in chengdu have a reason to be sad because they get services from that consulate in the form of visas to go to the u.s., cultural programs, people t to people exchanges. the american community in chengdu loses because they get american citizen services. china wants those services because they want to attract american business. governments lose because,

through konta lens and embassieies, they are the placee where the state to state negotiations go on for ministries and capitals. but the consulates are rerelationship i is really build promoteded. and i think china has made e a miststake here because, china gs much more bebenefit from i its consulates than the u.s. does.s. china gets unfettered access to american society, and the american diplomats in chengdu is used to confronting a chinesese bureaucracyyedicated to specififically limiting ththeir access to chinese society and a non-reciprocal way. >> why do you think the chinese authorities chose this consulate in chengdu? is there something specific about this particular posting that wouldld make it comparableo what we saw in houston? jeffff: they had two choices. they could have close wuhan, which is the smallest of the consulates, and if they had done that, t then wuhan would have bn

closed a at houston would have been closed, one c closure on eh side. there are tearingng of the consululates in china. chenengdu i is the seconondary . would have been the next levelel up in terms of protocol beyond wuhan. and that is why the governmentt hahas interpret this i installan -- and thatt is why the government has interpreted thihs incorrrrectly. the commumunist could n not rest the national urge to respond in this way. as i said, i think they will regret that. >> it follows the u.s. secretary of state last week saying basically that we should see an end to this policy of engagement that has defined u.s.-chinese relations for nearly half a century. when you are lookiking at it tht way,y, can we say we are enterig a cold war now between c china d the united s states? jeff: wewe certainly h have froy

relations, but i don't think we could say it was a cold war. ththe cold warar analogy was wih the relelationship p with the st ununion and does not apply here. we do nonot havee an economic relalationship betweween the u.. and russiaia. our relationship with china is intetertwined, and much as ththe trump a administration wantnts o de-couple, it is extrememely had to do that. there is a theorory in washingnn that the currentnt trump administration seeing their election prospspects are not god is doing whahat it can to de-couple in separate the two countries in ways like this. >> we will see if this de-coupling contininues after te election. jeff moon, we appreciate your ininsets -- your insights tonig. thank you. jeff: thank you. >> here are some other stories making headlines. flooding in china has caused extensive d dage. floodwater submerged roads and

wash a away vehicles. heavy rain's caused multiple landslides. israel says its soldiers have exexchange firewood has belolow militants. the israeli army says it was preventing s seral milititants from infiltrating israeli territory. has bola at the night taking apart of any clashes saying forces never attempted to cross the frontier. authorities in saudi arabia have ordered a deep clean of a site in mecca ahead of the hajj pilgrimage. because of the coronavirus, muslims from abroad will be unable to attend this year for the first time in the modern era. this year's event has been limited to only 1000 pilgrims from within saudi arabia. officials in germany are scrambling to contain a coronavirus outbreak at a farm

in bavaria. it is the latest in a string of covid-19 eruptions linked to food production here in the country. 174 workers on one farm in bavaria tested positive for covivid-19 over the weekend. >> around 3000 people live in the bavarian town of manning and many are waiting for coronavirus tests. farm is under quarantine after 174 migrant workers tested positive for covid-19. officials are trying to find out how they became infected, and if the virus has spread outside of the farm. there are strict hygiene guidelines for businesses employing seasonal staff, but bavaria's state premiere says they were not followed. >> officials, local and regigiol level say that hygiene inspections were carried out at this farm, but there have been violations, and that is why action has to be taken now.

he said bavaria would tighten its coronavirus rules. businesses will face more frequent hygiene inspections and me they will be carried out by mixed teams from the public health and agricultural departments. bavaria will also step up testing of employees and violations of social-distancing and hygiene regulations could incur fines of up to 25,000 euros instead of 5000 before. pepele are waiting to find out if the virirus has spread d froe farmrm to the town. if tests show that has happened, they will likely facing lockdown. >> germany will begin requiring coronavirus testing for travelers returning to the country from high risk areas. germany's health minister saying the measures are necessary to prevent incoming travelers from unknowingly infecting others and triggering a second wave of covid-19. countries deemed to be high risk

currently include the united states, brazil, russia, and turkey. the spanish government says the country is safe to visit. that despite a surge in coronavirus cases. this comes after the u.k. reimposed a quarantine on travelers returning from spain paid with a cluster of new outbreaks in barcelona, residents their fear tighter restrictions. >> it is not much of a lockdown. barcelona's regionanal governmet recommenends thapeopople only leavave their h homes if it i urgent, , but few people are paying heed. just havining a drink is urgent enough to go out? alex works at one of barcelona's many beach bars. he sympathizes with the young people of the city w who are tid of staying home after weeks of lockdown. >> you are losing your life,

friends. the community is important for everyone and young people and all he pull. in barcelona, life is very open and active. people are not used to staying in the house. >> just across the road from the beach is one of barcelona's biggest hospitals. dozens of coronavirus patients have been admdmitted therere ine past few d days. a doctor is worriedd when she looks at the crowded beach just a few meters away. medical authorities have plans in place should the situation worsen. >> the scenario goes from just not changing their regular day of the hospital, and to the worst scenario, which will be will we have to stop all the activity that is not urgent in order for all the profefessionas toto assist with patients, which is what happened at the end of march. >> another area of concern is staffing public health facilities.

around 1000 extra staff are needed in the region to accurately tracked chance of infection. right now, david and his 20 colleagues are resesponsible for more than one million reresiden. >> we are not enough people to do that contact tracing prprerly. not only the contact tracing that more or less we could contact the e person who i is confirmed will also their p pror monitoring of the cases, and to see if this outbreak, even though it is small, is pending. >> despite repeated promises from the regional government and more people will be hired to work in public health, -- hired, not much has happened. experts agree tracicing contacts isis crucial for slowing the spread o of the virus, e especiy with young people who may have no symptoms. >> just a few weeks ago, barcelona's regional authorities heavily cririticized the crcriss management and the capital of

madrid. now they find themselves at the center of attention and momore critics say thehe crisis here is anything but ideal. >> a barkeeper and others in the industry have one major worry, that infection rates will rise so much that the region will have to be p placed under r totl lockdown again. that could mean not just the in of the summer season, but the closure of their business for good. >> ukraine is accusing russia -backed separatist in a cease fire in the middle east. the separatists have denied those claims. the truce agreed with the help of international moderators was suppose to now and six years of fighting, which have killed more than 13,000 people.. >> the marks of war are everywhere. people long for peace b but the most recent cease-fire was broken barely after it began. ukraine's army blame russia's separatists.

between 20 past midnight and quarter to 1:00, they fire small arms, short range missiles and short caliber weapons. nobody was injured. the separatists reject the accusations he russia and television has been reportedly -- reporting on the cease-fire and a phone call between president putin and zelinski. moscow expressed concern that they wanted to renegotiate the peace plan. ukrainian troops have been fighting russia-backed separatists in eastern ukraine since 2014. the united nations estimates that some 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict. the pro-russian separatists, in what they call the people's republic, support the latest cease fire, but it is not clear that the agreement will hold. if we face in any aggression, the people's militia is prepared to take appropriate action.

the cease fire is seen as an important precondition for a new piece summit. german chancellor angela merkel and friend president emmanuel macron had a meeting with putin in december. nothing want to do the same in berlin. >> egypt, ethiopia, and sudan have agreed to resume talks over a disputed hydroelectric dam on the nile river. negotiations over ethiopia's grand renaissance dam have run almost a decade now, and still no peace over the precious waters of the nile. "dw's" reporter reports. >> this is the ethioiopia's renaissance dadam, erected on te main tributary, the blue nile, it took almost a decade to build and t tbe apart of ethiopia's trtransformati.. roughly six he 5% of the country

is not connected to the e power grid. energygy from the dam could m me than double ethiopia's current output, fulfilling its needs. but the dam is also highly controversial due to its location. the now's main source, the blue nile, now starts in ethiopia. the river flows towards sudan and joined the river's other tributary. before heading downstream to egypt. mcgirt is being built here with the border on sudan. the dam will catch water and its massive rereservoir. the surface area is larger than that of greater london. this will inevitably have an effect on how much water flows downstreaeam countries coming egypt and sudan. egypt is home to almost 100 million people who depend on the

nile for 90% of their freshwater supply. sosome ethiopia leave too much water in its reservoirss during periods of drought, endangering the flow downstream. aixa leave oedipus farmers unable to irrigate their lands -- that could leave egypt's farmers unable to irrigate their lands. the effects for sudan seemed mixed.d. one feaear here is that the gerd could jeopardize sudan's owned dams on the nile. however, sudan sees an opportunity to get cheap energy from eththiopia thanks triggered anan acute regulular water flows that a are sometimeses -- that f sometitimes causese flooding. these competing interests are the reasons why negotiations have been difficult. no comprehensive final deal has been reached, but even with an agreementt, cooperation between

egypt, ethiopia, and sudan will be here for years to come. there are more projects planned for the nile and growing populations means water could be a scarce resource. >> the jersey the basketball icon michael jordan received from the chicago bulls when he first signed with them back in 1984 is about to go up for auction. jordan was 21 at the time, and a first round draft pick. he wore the number 23 and became the driving force behind the bulls, helping them win six nba championships in the 1990's. i remember that well. the auction is scheduled for december and estimated the jersey will sell for as much as $400,000. buy this shirt off his back. top stories, u.s. lawmakers are paying tribute to civil rights

pioneer john lewis. his casket return to washington, d.c. todayay. the late congressman will lie in state in the rotunda of the capital. and u.s. marines of lord the american flag at the conflict in the chinese city of chengdu. beijing ordered its closure in retaliation for the u.s. shutting down the chinese counsel in houston last week. you are watching "dw-news. i will be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back.

seven nineteen deaths reach should the new grin the milestone of six hundred and fifty thousand of people. as of the world health organizes you meshes in a bid to avoid another lockdown. tensions flalared betetween a lebanon and israel off the israeli authorities claim they thwarted an attack by hezbollah militants the lebanese mene