That now produces nothing as the uns conference on the certification process will close in india we look at the problems and possible solutions to stay in a world where deserts are dense. Well im sorry martin welcome to the program hong kong is preparing for another weekend of demonstrations but increasingly prodemocracy activists are coming up with innovative ways of protesting they include some protest and i ask you as an ordinary citizens have converged on shopping malls to sing glory to hong kong. These Peaceful Demonstrations have been a respite from. Recent violent clashes which have seen the arrest of more than a 1000 People Police have charged around 150. 00 of them with various offenses and their trials are due to begin soon as Mathias Bollinger reports some of those charged face lengthy prison sentences to shorten your Hong Kong Legislature has been a hot spot of the antigovernment protests daniel chan has spent a lot of time here but that could change soon daniel not his real name was arrested and charged with rioting in july he faces up to 10 years behind bars. The moment i was arrested i was very calm i was thinking about what i needed to do in the situation but when i was told what the charges were it felt like i was entering another world. Hong kong has some of the most draconian Assembly Laws in the world some of them have rarely been applied until now but since the protests began authorities have brought the full force of these laws to bear daniel denies having been involved in any violence. Like too much of a coward to get into fighting i dont want to be beaten i also dont want to stand there and do nothing so i went to the front line and to help those who were tear gassed and i helped them wash their eyes out with saving solution 43. 00 others were arrested the day daniel was detained or have been charged with writing the most severe offense on the books it is the most people facing such charges since hong kong was returned to china in 1997 the British Government established the laws to quell anticolonial unrest but they remained in place after the handover then a squawk a lawmaker who represents the Legal Professions in the legislature says charges are politically motivated. If one is to look at these cases. Impartially i think im sure you would find that a lot of these charges are not supported by evidence and they were made up charges and done to scare people hoping that they would be deterred from going out. In a statement to g. W. The department of justice denies Political Considerations it insists prosecutors would act fairly and impartially daniel chan is not convinced. That i try not to think too much about the possibility that i might go to prison for the next decade. And like i would rather focus on what i can do to support the movement. To worry about the sentence will just demoralize me. Something on top this trial is scheduled for the end of this month but whatever the outcome might be the governments strategy has already had an impact since july daniel hasnt taken part in any more protests. D. W. Correspondent r. T. S. Bellinger is standing by for us in hong kong where tears are would be protesters now thinking twice about taking to the streets knowing that they too could face serious charges like daniel chan. Well the interesting thing is that all these strategies off deterrence beat these charges these harsh charges against the protesters be a threat to invade with the military police from china all these strategies of teachers have not worked in hong kong of course many hong kong do not dare to go to these are an authorised protests for fear of being arrested or having trouble but there is still a huge number of people who go and who know that they face a lot of trouble but who still go so deterrence is definitely not a strategy to end these protests what are the prospects mathias that daniel china and others will actually have to stand trial and if they do can they expect a fair trial. Well the courts in hong kong still the judges us do pretty independent the prosecution is under the department of justice so political abuse of the prosecution is much more likely then of the judges. Whether they can be convicted of rioting stands at question here because they the courts or the prosecution would need to prove that they had an intention to use violence and this is something that many experts here think is not easy to prove and we might not see all of these people convicted however of course once the procedure is in court there is a risk of being convicted and this is obviously what was intended since the controversial extradition law was withdrawn the protesters have focused on their demands for democratic reforms. Do they have any prospects of actually pushing those demands through against the will. Of mainland china. The interesting thing is that almost no protests the things that they have a chance to push and you know their demands or maybe at least to push leg political reform through this is something that is very unlikely and the reason why the protesters continue to protest is because there is a fear that once they stop there would be a revenge beijing would take its revenge more people would be charged so the protest basically is the protesters keep taking to the streets in order not to show weakness and to keep this going on hoping that there will not be a backlash but with little hope that they can through achieve their demands but yes thank you very much for filling us in the polling out there in hong kong in the United States a leading democratic president ial contenders have taken part in the latest t. V. Debate it was the 1st time all the top 10 candidates were in front of the cameras together health care was a contentious topic as former Vice President joe biden challenge progressive Senators Elizabeth Warren and bernie sanders. The candidates began by laying out competing visions for the future of health care we all owe a huge debt to president obama who fundamentally transformed health care in america and committed this country to Health Care Every day. And now the question is how best can we improve on it the i cannot question needing to bickering between moderate biden and leftwing benes on this youre forgetting that in the United States of america we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the canadians or any other major country on earth this is America Europe and america so want to pay twice as much as other countries and they guarantee health care to all people person with all eyes on front runners biden Julian Castro went on the attack her. President Barack Obamas vision was not to leave 10000000 people on covered he wanted every Single Person in this country covered my plan would do that your plan would you do not have to buy you. Do not have to buy you just said that you just said that 2 minutes ago you just said 2 minutes ago that they would have to buy your did you said they would have to write i had to buy it if i holler fire you for getting what you said just magically for a while i was doing what you said just 2 minutes ago i. Should have to make that but i will leave change on this issue because i have seen what the corniche creates in communities like mine and in odessa i met the mother of a 15 Year Old Girl who was shot by an a r 15 and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that an ar 15 in odessa in midan there werent enough ambulances to get to them in time hell yes were going to take your a r 15 your a k 47 to one center they want to see the democrats agreed on their opposition to the president on trial and his familys genes. Now to some of the other stories making news around the world today c. E. O. s from 145. 00 companies have signed a letter urging the u. S. Senate to pass new gun laws they include twitter and air b. N. B. The letter was drafted by jeannes maker levi strauss although walmart did not sign the letter it said earlier it would restrict gun sales in the wake of the shooting at one of its stores in el paso this summer. Be used Foreign Policy chief frederica rini as announced an additional 30000000 euros in aid for colombia the funds are intended to help latin American Country grapple with the influx of venezuelan migrants colombia has taken in more than 1400000 venezuelans fleeing economic and political strife. Oh. And the family of zimbabwes former leader wrote my god they has agreed to have him buried at a monument for National Heroes in iraq they got his relatives and the government had been all its over where he should be laid to rest his remains arrived last week from singapore where he died at the age of 95. Deserts of acacia is advancing across the world and the United Nations conference on how to turn it back has just ended in the indian capital delhi more countries than ever attended to find out how to combat also a fertile land which is threatening Food Supplies in many parts of the world at a farm near delhi it was clear why the fields are drying up when preached seeing looks at the fields in his village tears come to his eyes here and how yanna they used to grow millet and make a good living from it today the land is bone dry in fact 30 percent of indias land is no longer usable why because of Climate Change and the leeching of fields by intensive agriculture. Yes the meaning they had been talking to cheney years ago our soil was fertile but then there was less and less rain and we had to irrigate. Now the ground water has too Many Minerals in the soil is salty thats why farmers cant grow anything here anymore give me a. Priti singh visits his cousin arrest his family near rush was a farmer and had taken out a loan for seeds but the harvest never came the bank would no longer accept his dry farmland as collateral then last year interaction committed suicide now his family doesnt know how to make ends meet. You you know that is many partners have had to give up. Thousands of hectares of land have become infertile many families have met the state not just now russias all the farmers in the country are suffering but nobody cares. Every year 10000000 hectares of arable land are lost worldwide this is a global problem this years un conference against dessert occasion was attended by more countries than ever before indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised that by 2030 his country would make 26000000 hectares of land fertile again other countries want to follow suit and experts say its high time that some countries can read the grade. It is actually paid to at the same time is the best security of the promise for many communities that dont have assets other than land so any land to the addition would mean poverty would mean to do sing income for poor communities would mean the basics of it are going to migration. Reforestation irrigation intelligent land use the Global Community wants to reverse the earths desert if occasion by 2030 but this will cost billions. Investing on land that is floating degraded land preventing further degradation from ecosystems because topping the bleeding and secondly healing the wounds and now preach sing wants to started to certification project in his village he wants farmers to sow an old plant species there should at least be able to get the salt out of the soil and make the fields fertile again but it will take us. Youre watching news from berlin coming up next testosterone is it the making of the man thats coming up in our documentary im terry martin ill be back at the top of the next hour and we leave you this picture is from hong kong is a paris for another weekend of protests thanks for. My mail and im james brown the news delusions are in this post its personal device its about so place that affects us all on a flu shot Climate Change in the return of the. Only reasons check out
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