Has become unsafe and unstable violence no matter what the cost is putting hong kong on a route of no return but when i. Understand. That im not the 1st but if you. Call it that you can fake it and the credibility. Also on the day it was on august 13th 58 years ago when the 1st briggs and mortar were laid that would become the berlin wall youll hear from one man jailed for trying to escape he eventually made it across to west berlin and helped dozens of others do the same i had a Guardian Angel that night i knew there were alarms of the bridge years and in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post to bridge post if i had touched it he would have gone off and they would have immediately fired. We start the day in hong kong while that territory remains in the grip of its worst crisis since the territory was handed back to china by britain 22 years ago prodemocracy protests is again coming out in huge numbers flooding hung Kong International airport for a 2nd day in a row forcing flights to be cancelled and paralyzing operations riot Police Briefly clash with protesters United Nations has called on Law Enforcement in the territory to show restraint Mainland China takes a different view and has condemned the un for meddling in what it describes as a domestic issue meanwhile Chinese State and social media posted video for all to see Security Forces gathering across the border from hong kong on the year program democracy of protests have gained in momentum over 2 and a half months now and d. W. New spoke earlier with one of the lead activists joshua walk. Home call activists good at what i would do to content on clueless brutality government to terminate extradition bill and our quest for free in action before the police into the airport hong kong activists just stared at airport peacefully without any clash with those police unfortunately when police hope. Guns and pepper spray and try to point to his people the clash happened but i just want to let the world to know that white people and hong kong. Because we hope to let the world to know that hong kong such an International Financial center already tries fall into a polish state we know that is really a long term and difficult battle or basic business all call is similar as is burning in the last century under a rule but we will never give up we are just asking for. Fundamental right elected. Government all right so i want to bring in now its in the pringle of the school of oriental and African Studies in a london so as he is also the editor of the china quarterly a scholarly publication covering contemporary china a very good day so remarkable scenes playing out in hong kong today protests is clearly not ready to surrender yet i mean we just heard from the joshua wang saying this will be a long and difficult battle and we are not going to back down. Can they actually win this battle well i think i think good in that you by the way i think there is some there is you know despite the violence despite the tension i think there is still room for in the negotiation when at least some of the months that the protests is putting forward is is just who said just now there were time just now rather there are a fight there are 5 to months full replay of negotiable i categorize nation into specific protests to release of arrested processes to an independent inquiry into the policing the demonstrations which is which seem to that united the United Nations office for human rights would probably be behind this well. There is room for maneuver on on these now while the long term universal suffrage remains probably unknown realizable going to be in said he in the short term. Sincere and genuine dialogue with the other demands put forward by the protests this may lay the grahams right on top of the the which are rooting extradition dont fall for for progress on that among the swells so the spots are and so i think yes is there is still room for for compromise and for the notices to achieve at least at the arms. All eyes are on beijing because it doesnt seem like beijing is really in the mood for compromise i mean it just released that video that we aired today of army drills that are taking place just right across the border from hong kong that is kind of an implied threat there do you foresee a possibility that Mainland China might actually decide to send in troops. Well i think its more likely today that it was a month ago and those who seem from the spokesman for the hong kong and Macau Affairs office in hong kong the categorise ation of their interest has has gradually become more serious and in beijing how is from. Rome and today they are why you know from from that Office Spokesperson there has even referred referred to in his terms of signs of terrorism in iraq in the end its now and i think this is something not to be taken lightly the presence of the peoples own place over the bodhran shown junk which you which you just referred to undoubtedly a psychological pressure. Know that to to to bring the protesters to give up on on that amounts but at the same time i would say that it is beijings perception of the chaos in hong kong that is more important than the presence of the p. A. The peoples are in place during exercises and should. There are real signs you saw today that perception is hardening with with the reform reference to science that terror terrorism. There is a sign its that that because it has now become basically a test of wills hasnt it i mean the stakes could of course not be higher for both sides of this issue because whats up for sake is the future of hong kong so i under the leadership of using pain can hong kong retain its very unique position. I crewed i think the stakes are high. And there is no doubt that. To implement what we call an infrastructure on interest strategy which would imply troops also need to peoples own place that would have been devastating short term consequences for hong kong but also for the mainland as well and im particularly for paintings long term goal of unifying unifying the main runway with taiwan. Which hong kongs system one country 2 systems on comes formulation of one country 2 systems. Is was was until quite recently seen seen as a model for possible arena cation the concept is now in texas where the hong kong can retain its identity i think that is possibly or it is not the cool oh oh oh oh this yes this this and unrest this is on vacation and were seeing happening reciprocal i want to take us now to the embattled hong kong chief executive i carry a lamb because shes making a low profile but she made an appearance earlier today lets take a listen to add a bit of a very testy noosa conference and a question of whether miss lamb is actually acting independently from beijing will pick up the conversation on the other side of it do you have hope and what do you hold all the same any more than anything until one could be once not in school if it wasnt various times. Do you think you will recall that you made me feel that. You have no way to play. The question. Of the. Body. Of the quote citizen hes an icon of the whole race. And i can see you. Your previous season. Ok with your story it is not quite on my list to concentrate on the least the questions not being posing the least money to. The supreme this is an executive who is under extreme duress shes being challenged she cant answer anything is this kerry lamb a lame duck at this stage and is the real power just with beijing. Well i mean i think that the atmosphere in the press conference you just played is really a testament to the profound crisis that hong kong he sent me now whether carrying them has as the reporters were asking house the authority to entirely withdraw the extradition bill i dont know the answer to that however i do know that the majority of home compete will see kerry land government and indeed most almost all the governments of the various chief executives theres a group on constance north of 97. 00 more or less puppets of beijing and the states this sentiment has been fuelled by a dramatic protest at various times that can security bill in 2003 the National Curriculum in in 2009 that the writing of the timetable to it universal suffrage that led to the Umbrella Movement and now thinks the extradition so i think that if that is the perfect perception that its not so much that kerry land has become a lame duck its more that she was never anything else and i think her mishandling of the extradition bill is not is not a testament necessarily to lead this if i can say but rather to too serious political mismanagement. Of. The of the of the introductory call in a line then that thank you so very much tempering is with the school of oriental and African Studies and also the editor of the china quarterly thank you so much for waynes or. And now some shocking news about our vironment the world life wildlife rather fund says an assessment of forest biodiversity shows that wildlife populations have fallen by more than half in the last 50 years all the greatest losses took place in tropical forests like the amazon basin where the new government there is encouraging the clearing of tree trees for agricultural agriculture but forests are losing ground around the world. The forests of borneo vital habitat for the right hand are under growing threat theyre shrinking rapidly as farmers burn down trees to make way for Palm Oil Plantations that leaves less for the right times to eat the same goes for the java rhinoceros in indonesia and the Wild Elephants of Central Africa the World Wide Fund for nature is sounding the alarm. The most important step to take is an immediate holds to the destruction of the forest for the cultural use size that means we need a comprehensive approach to protect our effect 3 around the wall said and to far more responsibly that soft and forests are being stripped of high value trees for sale as workers build the roads and dams to convert the land for profit according to the World Wide Fund for nature forest wildlife populations have been reduced by half since 1970 percent as amazon rain forest is especially hard hit. We have extreme difficulties in brazil even though the amazon was actually a Success Story for a while that doesnt seem to be the case anymore but theres still a chance to make progress in other countries. Besides deforestation poaching and the Climate Crisis are exacerbating the devastation and veyron mental activists are urging World Leaders to. Get involved. 58 years ago today work began to build the berlin wall the barrier was intended to keep people in the communist is germany and stop them from fleeing to the free west of the country or the wall turned west berlin into an island in the midst of communist territory as you can see behind me well we were surrounded by more than 150 kilometers of massive fortifications at least 136 people were killed trying to get across the berlin wall but some 5000. 00 did make it out the berlin wall stood for 28 years and a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that also mentally led to the opening of the frontier in 1989 which also marked the end of communism in central and Eastern Europe now while the berlin wall stood firm escape attempts were often met with live gunfire but the desperation for some was so great the need to try it was overpowering a reporter christian a christian or brings us one mans harrowing tale. The best thing about jail to says was being let out of his cell once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in the Detention Center run by the east German Secret Police the stasi for trying to flee the country and aiding others in their attempts to escape. The embassy of his dismissal nudie home and so they didnt abuse as physically they called it a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind just down through hyper control isolation this information on the cusp of the worst 11 months of my life here after a while if you start too long to be sentenced. Trista never accepted life under the east german regime and tried to flee for the 1st time by train when he was just 18 he was arrested and put behind bars when building began on the berlin wall on the 13th of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on the center as it was the other woman she was a young person at some point you have to ask yourself how long am i going to play this raid have how long can i take it and where do i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little nations who has a long is just of studying you had to ignore all of this crap that in every essay there had to be a commitment to socialism and if you needed good marks you just wrote that rubbish down. A short time later attempted to escape again. Is one across a border river on the edge of berlin and made it to freedom. He was in the water for 4 hours before he finally managed to get through a bomb twice fence and on to the shore on the western side on the eastern side he would have been shot. They called in his office its like i had a Guardian Angel that night i knew there were alarms of the car it was in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post a bridge post if i touched it he would have gone off and they would have immediately fired shots. Because of. The force of. Dozens of people died in this way along the berlin wall its still not clear just how many the regime ruthlessly punished anyone who tried to flee. Nevertheless wish to continue to help more than 30 people escape by smuggling them into west germany in the boot of his car he was cool again and spent 5 years in prison before he was shot by the west German Government the 71 year old now gives to us in his from a prison he thinks young people should learn that east germany was a totalitarian state. As you will mention if you can see that young people are aware and interested thats why i do this and out of a sense of a little vacation will be back when it will always be like that before. That steeliness help tot not wish to overcome the brutality of the stasi now hes able to tell a story as one of those who paid a price for wanting freedom. Art were jarring now at syria much to our pleasure by catching hasa how or if former resident activist in east germany and you can see her right here behind me she helped start the socalled monday demonstrations in the eastern city of life 2nd the words on the side that you see the banner that shes holding up is for an open country with free people so good to have you here was captured on this fateful day because it is so hard from this vantage points today to think about how this country not so long ago was split basically and the people were split for what was it like to live in east germany. So the meaning of this day for me is just that 16000000 people were just put in a state prison if you would say so and they were even kind of told the government told them oh you are now living in the better piet of germany and so we put tech to this offense so how cynical is sub to to build even a fence that to tell them you live in the better part of the germany but dundas cape nonetheless some people were so desperate that they attempted to flee across under above risking their very lives talk to us about that sense of desperation that youre so desperate that youre willing to risk your life just to get out. Yes so for me its also the memory today the remembrance for all the people they ought to be lost their life by trying to escape so for me as i grew up the wall was already there and i remember that the siblings from my grandmother came over for her Birthday Party and they came over from mr chairman e. And i i do remember as a kid that i wondered oh why im not able to see where they live how they live what their homes look like and i was asking my mom i said oh do ever go to see their plays and my mom just said no we would never go to see them plays and my grandmother just said oh please can you make they go stop that question because it just brings trouble weight. And i i want to mention that i think we just aired a little bit before while you were very evocatively of describing what it was like to live in east germany were showing some video from your project that digitally the reconstructed the wall to offer a more 3 dimensional weight of this one here it is yes. My question to you is this the wall work did it she what it set out to achieve no not for me so because since i was a child i started to ask question and. If if there was one phrase i really didnt like her i still dont like if when people would say oh thats how things are we just conned we cannot change it and then it never light and i say whats. Teenage air i could see that there was so many laws so just the one lie that my mom and all her friends they didnt go to the elections and i could count it so but still in the newspaper they would tell us that 99 percent of the citizens would vote for the government and i didnt know thats not true in conclusion caton whats so interesting about you is that you did not attempt to escape and you also were not resigned like maybe some of your relatives were by what the situation was you decided that you wanted to change the system from within. How. For me. I also felt of the stubbornly thats also my country im born here and so maybe it is not true maybe we can change it and if we go to the streets with a message like for an open country risk free people it would show people that we are not criminals like the government would tell people we are. Genuinely just want to be free and to half a choice and to have a voice and to decide what we want to do with our lives cancer and i would love to speak so much longer with you about your experiences and hopefully well get the opportunity again to thank you so much for lifting some of the veil and also sharing some of the experiences of what happened on that fateful day and what it was like after the wall erected but so happy to have you here thanks really free shipping. Now in a world designed for right handers the struggles phrased by a left handers are very real or unreal the scissors or cumbersome can openers about 10 percent of us grapple with gadgets meant for the right handed majority and International Left handlers handers day i should say today is meant to focus on the struggles and celebrate famous lefties through the ages. I disproportionate number of recent u. S. President s have been left handed 7 out of the last 15 of use their left hand including barack obama thats helped fuel a theory that left handed people make exceptional leaders. The Roman Emperor type arius is one of the 1st left hand is ever recorded his biographer said he used his left hand more readily and with more force than his right who could bore a fresh sound apple through with his finger because ranks high list of left hand is all the historical accounts reveal he trained himself to become right handed he still uses life a sculpture his was a quiet strength. Left handed musicians feature the likes of beethoven and group to. Group the recently legendary guitarist jimi hendrix. In the past researches have suggested left of a wide disco for thinking to explain the high number of left handed nobel Prize Winners including Albert Einstein and physicist marie curie to name just 2. That just makes you want to become left handed thats it for the day but the conversation continues online youll find us on twitter either or you can follow me at my handle iraq so get outside today ill be back tomorrow for another look at the day. Perception. Thinking and action. Attractive appearances. To easily find just the danger. More common when the bubble bursts its time for clash made in germany 60. What secrets lie behind these moves. To find out in an immersive experience and explore a fascinating Cultural Heritage science. D. W. World heritage 360 gets the. Earth home to millions of species. Were saving. 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