i'm melissa chan it's good to have you with us you're watching d.w. news asia but we start in germany that's because the country recently took the lead and granted political asylum to 2 activists from hong kong it's the 1st country to do so in this context the pair were jailed for taking part in a 2014 umbrella movement anti-government protests that paralyzed the streets of the city a crackdown followed germany's move to grant asylum is significant because it is the 1st state to acknowledge as a matter of policy hong kong's new political climate. there the 1st time cong refugees to be granted asylum. and now feel safe in germany they were threatened with a prison cell. in the homeland for having taken part in an anti-government protest . as a fairy story set things actually because i think no one wants to leave their home country and never go back. and. but anyway we were saying that. we must do this because we as we should let the let the whole road know what what is happening in hong kong. and look back to 2014 many young people took to the streets

i'm melissa chan you're watching news asia it's good to have you with us today we take a look at china in the spring of 1989 it was still the time of the cold war the berlin wall would only fall later that year and in may the soviet union leader mikhail gorbachev was visiting communist leaders in beijing that is the reason why we have so much video and photographic evidence of the student protests on tiananmen square that ended in a military crackdown on june 4th because foreign media had been allowed into communist china to cover the scene as soviet summit they stayed for what looked like the beginning of a revolution. it has been 30 years since the crushing of that student movement 30 years since we 1st saw this iconic image estimates of the number killed range from a few 100 to more than 2000. mathias ballinger walks us through the events leading up to that historic crisis he speaks to a father and son the father a high powered official at the time and the son a protester. who was a book publisher in hong kong there was in 1989 i was a 4th year student in university. so i wasn't ver

i'm melissa chan this is news asia it's good to have you with us we begin today in kazakhstan central asia largest country the oil rich nation sandwiched between russia and china is set to hold its presidential election on sunday and for the 1st time since the end of communism nursultan nazarbayev will not be on the ballot he ruled the country for 3 decades as an autocrat his supporters credit him with modernizing parts of the country and building its futuristic capital once known as a star it was renamed earlier this year as nor sultan in his honor by this man interim president joe marte to kieth he is not tobias handpick choice for the job but activists are risking arrest. to voice their dissent to a system they see as rigged and corrupt and we share when reports from kazakhstan's commercial capital. poetry and music against political repression sloc a cause like poetry collective is rehearsing a new piece it's a statement against political apathy though the young performers insist this is just art you're not you're. you're in your process to less of a is here to support the group t

i'm melissa chan this is the news asia it's good to have you with us malnourished abused and unable to escape that's the fate of countless men who believed they had scored a promising job on a fishing boat but ended up as modern era slaves victims of human traffickers just how many slaves are out there is difficult to assess there's no oversight on international waters but monitoring groups say that forced labor and abuse are widespread in the fishing industry with profit margins low and competition high fisheries push their workers to work long hours and in dangerous conditions many of these men come from southeast asia here's the story of one indonesian crew who lived to tell the tale. a steady job with a good salary and a lucrative bonus that's the promise that tempts many indonesian men to leave their homes and hope to see but what they get is this is about are more than 30 actually spy the indonesian seafarers movement shows crew members sleeping on the floor in the cargo hold looking malnourished and exhausted one of them is run by tula he says he was tricked by an indonesian rec

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