A cease fire deal at talks in moscow. Hands no more cold europe pledging to spend a trillion euros to stop using coal and become Carbon Neutral by 2050 thats a quarter of its overall budget to get an insight into how that money will be spent. And storming the stasi east germanys secret police were feared and hated today its 30 years since the civil rights activists forced their way into stasi headquarters unease for lend their courage prevented the destruction of millions of files as the communist state collapsed. Im brian thomas great to have you with us china poses and. Existential threat to International Human rights that is the assessment of a new report released by Human Rights Watch the u. S. Based Group Condemns what it calls chinas domestic repression and its attempts to censor its critics abroad the group is calling on the International Community to challenge beijings actions or face what it describes as a dystopian future. While the head of Human Rights Watch was due to release a report in hong kong but was denied entry he held a press conference instead in new york city heres what he had to say the Chinese Government is trying with increasing ferocity to use its economic and diplomatic clout to silence critical voices abroad and to undermine global institutions that protect human rights chinas obviously long censored critics at home the government is now trying to extend that censorship to the rest of the world kenneth roth there will hong kong is of course one of the focal points of chinas repression and activists there saying beijing is using the Territories Police to enforce a policy of ever greater brutality but support for the communist party line among the police in hong kong is not universal some are risking their jobs or worse by speaking out. Mathias billing filed this report. When david chan joint to Hong Kong Police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david chan is not his real name. Was last november when protesters and Police Clashed for hours on the university campus. Police had come on the massive attack. And david says its not only the physical threats to the fact. Theyve been working long hours theyve been blamed fingers pointed at them its very exhausting both physically and mentally. This is what hes talking about criticising and often could sing at the police and the new offices which theyve been accused of indiscriminate arrests beating up subdued protesters and threatening to shoot tear gas into apartments. Videos of Police Brutality circulating online. Bystanders get into arguments with officers risk getting pepper sprayed a clear violation of the rules as david. Im just frustrated because some offices really just like the protesters and honestly they really want to beat them up but i think this isnt the right mentality we should be impartial as Police Officers we shouldnt take sides he says hes currently doing as much as 100 hours of overtime every month while he isnt serving at the front line as often haas to be at the site of demonstrations david is hiding his identity feel being bullied by protesters online and he worries about professional repercussions. As a member of the Hong Kong Police force i shouldnt be criticizing it in public but as a citizen of hong kong i have to say the Senior Officers have basically messed it up. Officials deny the police have done anything wrong the police has been in the focus of the demonstrators since june when they 1st violently broke up a protest. Since then public anger has steadily grow especially among the young david says most of his friends have turned their back on him in the past 6 months. I was a bit upset about it because they were my good friends but then i thought about it theres nothing i can do. He says several of his colleagues have quit their jobs but while hes at odds with the current tactics he has no intention to leave. I should be staying in the police force and try to maintain the right mentality and to uphold the values of the police. Its a tough challenge for david stuck between loyalty and dollars. Lets go now straight to beijing and did abuse Mathias Bowling out for more about that new human rights report about china oppression chinas oppression and suppression of human rights to date you mathias can you fill us in on some of the reports details that shows china working for quote dystopian future at home and abroad. Well we have just seen one example of. Chinas repression which is hong kong where Human Rights Organisations have accused china and the Hong Kong Police and the Hong Kong Government that is dependant on china of restricting the previously quite liberal freedoms of this city there are of course the very grim examples of the suppression of week where we are seeing the biggest internment off an ethnic group probably since the end of world war 2 and the massive surveillance state that has been installed in this injuries but increasingly also throughout china we have seen increasing arrests during the past few years of human rights activists why use torture etc etc etc all this is not new what the report now details about is the mechanisms that china is using to suppress criticism abroad outside of china this is probably the most disturbing part of the report certainly for people abroad where it is Human Rights Watch consider chinas threat to human rights over seas most severe is their specific area. Well one of the groups for example that have really really been targeted the week is brought they have been threatened abroad they have been threats that their family members have disappeared and there are all of this was used to suppress their criticism chinee groups of progovernment supporters have been mobilized for example on universities across the work world to counter protests against chinas human rights. Record and there have has also been pressure on the human rights mechanisms the International Human rights mechanisms as well as on countries that are financially dependent on china to support chinas oppression policies for example in syngenta ok now this report also says that chinas leadership is quote scared of its own people is that the sense that you have from your time reporting in china. Brian this is a very tough question because we need to be careful with Public Opinion in china we do not have and so is we know that there are all kinds of opinions exist. But we do not really know to what extent. They are reprinted in the population what we have seen however and this is. Something that i would support that whatever news are leaked whenever there have been investigative reports and there have been more in the past when press control was less strict about abuses of power public reaction immediately is there and that. The public anger builds up very quickly so what i think what we can clearly say is that this system of governance in china would not be able the power of the communist party would definitely not survive in the way it is exercise now without this massive repression and this massive censorship dida the ts billing on mathias thanks very much for bringing us up to date on this new report german chancellor Angela Merkel has invited into rival governments of libya to berlin this weekend along with other Regional Power brokers its a bid to rescue a peace deal and strengthen a very shaky cease fire this comes just a day after the powerful warlord Khalifa Haftar left the moscow peace conference without signing the truce that was drafted at those talks. The talks were meant to bring an end to the conflict in libya and be a diplomatic victory for russia and turkey but after general kiley for half a time i left the talks in moscow without agreeing to a long term truce they appeared to end in failure. Speaking to media a day off to hell with the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov played down the outcome saying the peace plan put forward by moscow in agra was still a work in progress. Representatives of Libyan Society met in moscow with the participation of the russian and Turkish Foreign and defense ministers we will continue our work on this track so far there has been no definitive outcome. Libya has seen heavy fighting for months the countrys internationally recognized administration the government of National Accord led by fires sarkar raj is based in tripoli its facing up our challenge from general have tads rival administration based in the east of the country and the city of tobruk after forces calling themselves the Libyan National army are reportedly being assisted by russia and regional allies egypt saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Meanwhile ankara along with the United Nations is backing tripolis government of National Accord earlier this month Turkeys Parliament gave president reject type or one the green light to send troops to tripoli. And after the moscow talks failed to offer a solution on tuesday other one provided a clear warning. If you know theyre not vigilant in the coming days we will be closely following the choices that the coup plotter have to and the countrys legitimate government will make. In the event that attacks against the countrys legitimate government and our libyan brothers continue we will never refrain from giving have to are the lesson he deserves good little job. Now the focus moves from moscow to berlin german chancellor Angela Merkel has invited top officials from a host of countries for peace talks on sunday in the hope that this time around something might be different. Ok lets get you briefed down some of the other stories making the news today Australian Authorities have installed traps at a major dam a New South Wales to prevent ash from the areas bushfires from contaminating Drinking Water the Warragamba Dam is sydneys main source of fresh water officials fear the heavy rains that are forecast in the coming days could polluted. Britain france and germany have formally accused iran of violating the terms of the 2015 agreement to curb its Nuclear Program you Foreign Policy chief u. S. Of burrill says the aim is to bring tehran back into compliance but it could spell the end of the accord and a return to sanctions. Protests in lebanon turning violent as demonstrators attacked the central bank in the capital beirut a clash with police after a lawless in the months long protest people are back on the streets for what theyre calling a week of anger him to pressure the countrys political elite into taking action over lebanons worst economic crisis in decades. In the u. S. The race to decide which democrat will challenge donald trump in the president ial elections heating up the top 6 candidates have faced off in a final televised debate among them former Vice President joe biden vermont senator Bernie Sanders and massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren weve done for the democratic president ial hopefuls it was the last chance to get their message across to a National Audience for the Iowa Caucuses begin the democratic primaries in 3 weeks time polls suggesting the race will be tight. All just how tight will it be lets bring in our Washington Bureau chief always on a phenomenal good morning to you ill xandra who do you think came off best in the baden who looked like the candidate with the best chance of taking on donald trump. Well i think that senator Elizabeth Warren had that moment for the debate when she addressed a story about one of her contenders senator Bernie Sanders telling her years ago that a woman cannot win elections india as she talked about that trying to make her case that woman is best sort of go. To win the election and she pointed to the fact that the man on the stage last 10 races while she was the only candidate who defeated and the republican incumbent republican candidate any time in the last 30 years and this is really a discussion that is going on in the u. S. And within the Democratic Party is a woman could speech donald trump so its getting a lot of attention here and now the name that we have to mention is a close senator from minnesota who was the only candidate on the stage she was not afraid to throw punches and of course joe biden who can be happy with the debate i think because its did nothing to hurt his position as the top democrat in the race alexandra with reason of benson around that weve been talking about in the show this debate opened with Foreign Policy what do candidates have to say a lot from. Well all of them criticized President Donald Trump and actions in iran and iraq and they talked about the situation in iraq and in afghanistan and it was quite interesting to listen to the exchange between joe biden and Elizabeth Warren about a war and said. As comets troops troops should get out of afghanistan while joe biden said that he would leave a small number of special forces there so you can see in which direction the Democratic Party has moved on Foreign Policy in the recent years and that was the spectra there now this was the last televised debate before the start of the all important primary season how significant are the upcoming iowa costas caucuses and who polls suggest would well the 2 highest polling candidates at the moment are Bernie Sanders and joe biden but the race is very close and that makes it so significant of course we have to say it is hardly representative of america and the 21st century but it is still state were primary voting kicks off and its results can be an early indication of who might win the nomination and who has little chance of success and the results or winning iowa can give the companion a push especially when the candidate is not top candidate as it happens to barack obama when he won iowa in 2008 overtaking Hillary Clinton ok and well know more than 3 weeks when when we have those caucuses always under thanks so much from washington. Well staying in the u. S. After 18 months of bruising economic conflict the u. S. And china are set to sign what theyre calling phase one of a trade agreement that calls for the u. S. To ease some sanctions on china the u. S. Has agreed to stop labeling china as a currency manipulator ahead of that signing said to take place in washington for its part beijing will step up its purchases of u. S. Foreign products manufactured goods like aircraft and some Services Analysts are calling the deal modest but there are hopes it will prevent further escalation in the conflict that has slowed Global Economic growth and hurt american and chinese exports. All European Union is pledging to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling Climate Change the Europe Investment plan will channel one trillion us trillion euros into climate protection over the next decade the aim is to reach Carbon Neutrality within the next 30 years. This is what the United States moon landing looked like when it comes to climate protection the European Commission is not shying away from drawing comparisons to that earth shattering event we do not have all the answers yet today is the start of a journey. But this is europes man on the moon moment. A green deal for the European Union is whats in the funnel lions 1st major policy proposal since she took office at the end of 2019 her vision commits the e. U. To achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2015 until then emissions of Greenhouse Gases would have to be reduced stored or compensated. The e. U. Commission says it wants to mobilize a trillion euros from various sources over the next decade to make buildings more Energy Efficient and industry more environmentally friendly as regions only for europe transition away from coal. Fund a lion urges the e. U. To move quickly and take the lead in growing a green economy. Well today marks the 30th anniversary of a key event the fall of the fall of the berlin wall angry citizens and human rights campaigners occupy the headquarters of the stasi communist east germanys feared secret police they succeeded in preventing the destruction of the stock seize surveillance files on millions of the countrys citizens one activist from that time told us exactly what happened he was there both going templi hm a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germanys stars the headquarters its still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on. So if theres oh yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament of our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster theres no personal. Was was open the gate the storming of norman and st was a key moment after the buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the preceding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters. Was the staff the workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. But the fight to save the files was far from one that took a Hunger Strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. After all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that hes germanys state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public templin applied to see his own. It was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see the files in 1930. 9 u. S. An opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file of white as me it was very thora but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to follow for 2 years template himself was an unofficial start as the informant he ultimately quit and got involved with civil Rights Groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany. After the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stasi but he still struggling to cope with what happened to this day. A lot of people say yeah well it was so long ago why both. If we think about the nazi era and im not saying that the same just comparing that to it took decades to process the monstrous things that happened back then. You have a role. As he files will be transferred to the National Archives from 2021 as long as they remain easily accessible to ordinary people templin has no problem with fact. In other news today in the u. S. Dozens of people are being treated for minor skin and long ailments after a passenger plane dump fuel over a number of schools that airliner was making an emergency return to false Angeles International after experiencing mechanical issues the federal aviation authorities investigated. Spanish media are reporting that at least one person has been killed in an explosion at a chemical factory in the northeastern city of terror going on a number of others are said to have sustained serious burns the Emergency Services are warning people in the area not to leave their homes. While Severe Weather across parts of pakistan and pakistan administered kashmir have less have left some 100 people dead and and others missing in those areas one valley in the mountains was hit by a number of avalanches authorities launched rescue missions but access is proving difficult. In the mountains of pakistan administered kashmir rescue was trekking looking and listening for signs of life as the snow continues to fall finding and reaching the exact location of the missing is hot enough. The next task is to dig down through what in some valleys hes made his of snow to reach people buried beneath the avalanche. 101 6. How they are going to. Get away even though these areas are cut off from the cities and as on kashmir in the evening you just dont know what condition people are in. How long like that you have got a. Meanwhile in western pakistan heavy snowfall in biloxi stunned has destroyed and in some cases completely buried dozens of houses. Again accessibility is thwarting if its to find survivors and victims. Because so far most of the casualties are due to the construction of houses in a different part of the province. While if its not being made to reopen roads and reach many people at ground level in many cases a lift is still be only option full of the injured. As the hours tick by the chances of race you work is finding survive as is diminishing rapidly. Or we have some sports news now in the ticket designs for this years olympic and Paralympic Games have been unveiled in tokyo the japanese paralympic canoeist monaco siri you had the honor of showing off the new designs the tickets come in 4 different colors they feature pictograms of each individual event the designs are inspired by the kimono a traditional japanese dress of course games organizers say nearly 4 and a half 1000000 tickets have been sold so far. As if youre a modern elf our top story at this hour a new report by Human Rights Watch says china poses an existential threat to International Human rights and falls on the International Community to chair. Beijings actions or face what he calls quote a dystopian future. 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