Authorities trying to test what is and isnt healthy in a community that has been put back under lockdown by covert 19. Im sara kelly welcome to the program called police have used water cannon to disperse activists protesting against the new security law imposed on the territory by beijing the demonstrators had gathered in the causeway bay shopping district where police warned them that they might face arrest and prosecution for displaying Pro Independence banners more than 30 arrests have been made then a water cannon rolls up and began dispersing the protesters the new security law targets session subversion and terrorism with punishments of. To life in prison. And correspondent for the congo is standing by for us in a mall in Hong Kong Phoebe what is the situation where you are. Im standing outside a high end shopping going downtown hong kong just now when we pass through to morrow said any of the also some riot Police Officers. Lined up the color line and then stopped and searched everyone inside and more on the footbridge so this is just a just a if your sense of life how the Law Enforcement is carry out today. More those 3 or 4 thousands of Police Officers are deployed today to our control the or to lie stop any kind of life Public Assembly and Political Capital gatherings today as they banned any kind of political gatherings today and are just now like just like other citizens shopping in the more today because that today is a Public Holiday but they are on a consumption such as well. Nobody was the best there but this is the style and the way our Law Enforcement is today and thinking about like the 1st arrestee this is a similar kind of like strategy that police say if we stop and search many people on the street so this is what we upset because they have the information ok so it. So a lot of searches there but we have had reports the police have already started detaining people under the new legislation what more do we know about those 1st initial arrests. The 1st arrest the what is the specter of like folly to National Security off the coast the whole sense of lack of like were all focused independence slogans written on it so police have already issue like public warnings of of like not to incite. This kind of by sufficient answer session and on its way up so high. Over the last couple of our worst night police keep like warning people like not not to chant and the like slogans all like to show any protest. Play cuss like just similar to or want like in the past like something about the hong kong and saw something about liberate hong kong so this would be something to maybe the to take right now under the new law and and a few eventually rethought over 30 have been arrested already some are accused of violating the National Security some are suspected of dissipating in the Illegal Assembly and protests have also been banned how is the prodemocracy movement reacting. To that despite the fact that police have banned and the kind of Anti Government posthaste on the anniversary today which just not coming over the past 2 decades that traditionally people are tense up on hundreds the millions hundreds of thousands of people marching on the street today are we we can we can hardly see any play a significant crowd on the street because most of them of dispersed by police but politicians and opposed to see frank frank assess the people to the fire ban and to rally on their personal capacity but on the other hand as weve seen yesterday some of the prominent prodemocracy parties have already the span and dismissed and we have talked to some of the activists of hope and they are predict that some of these are some of the activists they may turn transform into another way of life on the ground after this and in the future if the cost is way too high than expected right now because in hong kong thank you. Germany today takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union berlin will guide the course of the block for 6 months at a time of huge. Social and economic upheaval triggered by the global coronavirus pandemic now germany kicked off its e. U. Custodianship by projecting the words together for europes recovery on to berlins iconic Brandenburg Gate the slogan is a reference to the damage caused by the virus pandemic which has plunged european economies into recession chancellor Angela Merkel has described it as the greatest challenge that the e. U. Has ever faced on now in her final term as chancellor merkel also faces a personal challenge the next 6 months are potentially the greatest but almost certainly the last opportunity to shape her legacy angular machall had grand plans for her final performance is european but then came corona since the pandemic started shes used every opportunity to stress what shes up against over the coming months he penned the mean year for the pandemic with its economic downturn is the largest challenge in europes history the. Biggest crisis in the history of the European Union because its. New but its not an exaggeration to say that were facing the largest economic challenge in the history of the e. U. Depending on how she navigates europes coronavirus recovery political circles not just here in berlin will be redrafting her entry into the history books. With a no nonsense no cheerleading just get it done the response both inside germany and across europe both her health care it leadership and her Economic Leadership has made clear that angola merkel is the leader that germany and europe needs right now not forgotten but on hold seems her old image as a sterile t. Chancellor who tried to push countries towards a common take on National Budgets she also failed in pushing for a joint migration policy. In a remarkable turnaround angle americal started crossing her own red lines by allowing joint e. U. Dead sending the signal that shes intent on Holding Europe together what ever it takes. Joint appearance with french president Emanuel Mccaw saw her sacrifice what had been a german fiscal principle for years no joint e. U. Debt proposing the 1st 500000000000 of the corona Recovery Plan for the 1st time germany agreed to guarantee debt that most benefits other e. U. Countries like italy a potential game changer we had the impression as watchers that germany e. U. Policy was paralyzed so now corona happens and the giants started to move and i think this is a very good sign. At the same time europe struggles to stay out of the way as relations between the world superpowers china and Donald Trumps america further strained by the crisis in germany we dont know exactly what the world order is going to look like coming out of this will we have a cold war between the americans and chinese that is actually an open question right now and theres no question that how you respond to a crisis like that will be the most important line in the obituaries that are written for Many Political leaders around the world not just chancellor merkel so machall final months and nice chancery until she leaves office in autumn 2021 will prove to be decisive and we have Team Coverage of the story in a has it is in berlin barbara vessel joins us from brussels and you know ill begin 1st if you germanys model for the e. U. Presidency is together for europes recovery whats in the plan. The German Government will be throwing all its weight behind efforts to get the e. U. Out of this very existential corona crisis you have to remember that angloamerican we saw in the report says it is the biggest crisis the e. U. Has ever faced and this time around this is an economic slump that is nobodys fault it was caused by a virus and the economy is essentially came to a standstill which is something that angloamerican has recognized which is why she is willing to take these revolutionary steps as some people here in berlin call it that she is willing to give the e. U. Commission approval to issue shared bond which can then 750000000000 euros worth some of that money can then be given to the countries that are hardest hit by the crisis is italy and spain and you always have to remember that germany desperately depends on those economies in those countries working as well but certainly it will not be smooth sailing for this plan for the german presidency barbara ill turn to you with that talk with us about the challenge of building consensus especially on the e. U. Level. The challenge is tremendous because there is a political side to this economic downturn and you know just talked about the u. E. U. Is sort of seen or threaten to fly apart so many countries think now we have to sort of close our borders we have to have all down and just act in our own interest and what im going to america is going to tell them over and over again and i assume it is want going to be one of the main and central slogans of our presidency is it is in your interest that we all act together she really has to keep these countries together and that is the main political challenge to sort of combat nationalism combat those forces of isolationism that have sprung up as throughout so many countries in Eastern Europe and particularly in the silos so that is the main task and what also will be very difficult i mean if it doesnt end there we have to see a long list of issues she has to deal was rex it lets not forget that in you probably china policy that is going to be a very very difficult thing to balance but in the end it is really the huge expectations that are being put on to angloamerican shoulder everybody expect her expect her to be able to walk on water shes but immune human however i assume and everybody else here in brussels things that shes going to be do the very best and she has just 6 months to do it and as part of this rotating presidency the ones with the view from berlin barbara bizzle in brussels thank you so much to both of you. And lets get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world president don trump has approved plans to withdraw nearly 10000 u. S. Troops from germany he did not specify when the productions would happen but its expected most of the personnel will be sent to poland President Trump has repeatedly accused germany of not contributing enough to nato spending. The u. S. Governments top Infectious Disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has sounded the alarm about the rapid spread of the corona virus and he said the number of daily cases could more than double if the authorities fail to contain a surge of infections across several states who are deeply bokes wagon drug firm fires there and Software Giant as a p. R. The latest companies to suspend advertising on facebook through the end of this month at least more than 300. 00 companies are now boycotting the social media giant in a push for it to take more action against hate speech on its proxy use. Germanys defense minister on a karrenbauer has ordered the partial desolation of germanys elite k s k commandos following reports of right wing extremism in their ranks reports say that the unit which specializes in anti terror and rescue operations may face a major reorganization and up to 70 of its 1400. 00 personnel could be cut military investigators announced this year that they suspended 20 k. S. K. Personnel for having extreme right wing views media reports quote the defense minister as saying that the unit has quote a toxic Leadership Culture and cannot continue to exist in its present form. Lets get more now we are joined by thomas week olds he is a journalist and an author with a focus on the german bund despair thank you so much for joining us weve just heard that there a toxic Leadership Culture within germanys alink commando how serious is it i think its pretty serious you mentioned already investigators from the counterIntelligence Unit of the army are investigating this unit for at least 2 or 3 years which is a major blow to the armed forces in itself well actually the plans which will be formally announced today include the debate disbanding of the part of this elite unit not the unit as a whole and theres a meeting that the minister and the ministry is trying to to get to get great of those toxic parts of this unit without disbanding the unit as a whole was all destroying the capabilities they need lets talk a little bit more about whats been going on in this unit because weve been seeing a couple incidents in recent years including cars come members allegedly throwing pig heads and performing the nazi salute at a party on another occasion we have reports of large amounts of ammunition and explosives disappearing how is this possible. Well thats a question which hasnt been really answered i think the major point was in mid may and police searched the halls of the Sergeant Major of this unit and they found a weapon they found ammunition that held explosives and most of it came out of stocks of the business via which means bad writing extremists had been able to put ammunition and explosive on the side obviously preparing for some kind of right wing extremist actions and that thats a major concern you have elite come on those trained in weapons trained in ammunition and they have for the personal use some explosives on the side thats something no army can tolerate and lets not forget you said that there are these are lead commandos the best of the best what does this tell you that im more broadly about the general state of the budget is fair and do you really think that you know these were structuring that weve heard announce can really tackle the issue of right wing extremism. Well that remains to be seen no we also have to see that the head of the counterIntelligence Unit this monday for the 1st time used the term right Wing Networks in the armed forces so far and this will always consider it officially at least as saying all cases in all be counted Intelligence Unit the ministry is regarding this as the Network Issue so they have to find those in that group they have to identify it right in this 3 minutes this is in the active forces as well as with rather with they also have been reports and have the number of right been cases of which is under investigation has risen to 600 in recent months now on the other hand it was in the 180000 man army which means its still a minor number but still reason for concern thomas local journalist thank you so much for joining us with that perspective its my pleasure. Authorities in northwestern germany are preparing to ease the strict a lockdown imposed in some districts after a covert 1000 outbreak flared at a b. Processing factory there people have been ordered to stay in their homes and are banned from traveling anywhere for many of those who have seen quarantine return patience is wearing fans but testing who is healthy and who is not is a major challenge these employees of the tanyas Meat Processing plant and other residents want out about 650 people have been restricted to this block on the outskirts of town a city of 25000 in western germany theyve been placed under quarantine. But this is set to change the mayor is preparing to lift the quarantine gradually but he still faces one big obstacle trying to figure out who is who and who is healthy. There are different lists of people who are actually living there and people who should be there but probably left before the quarantine is likely headed home the look of isolation that many in feral and in the neighboring larger city of also want out after all its Summer Vacation but numerous german holiday resorts will only accept travelers from high risk locations if they tested negative for the coronavirus this temporary testing facility is being run with the help of soldiers from the german army. Take place about every day we test over 700 people here honestly weve yet to see a positive test thats some good news for a change or good news but people here are still angry especially at the management of the tenures meat plant which was ground 0 for a fresh outbreak of the pen demick in this region. So its their fault and the meat plant acted incredibly irresponsible that was to put it so the police in the city need to come down hard on them. For now the city has its hands full. It has to decide who may and may not be released from quarantine the workers have to check people against lists of those who have been tested this is its still going to take quite some time weeks maybe months but until were done with everything by it will likely also take a long time until we finally have a vaccine or drugs to treat the illness medicament up until then local residents will have to live with lockdown restrictions. And here are some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic the german state of bavaria is to bring in universal testing for covert 19 its prompted a debate about whether the rest of germany should follow suit or stick to targeted testing to prevent a possible 2nd wave coronavirus deaths will soon top 60000 in brazil the worst hit country after the United States the army has delivered protective supplies and medicines by helicopter to indigenous communities in the amazon thailand has begun a 5th phase of relaxations of her stretch and schools and high risk Entertainment Venues such as bars and massage parlors have been allowed to reopen and china has reported just 3 new cases of corona virus compared to 19 the day before all the new cases were in beijing its. The e. U. Has opened its external borders to leisure and Business Travel today but not to all countries coronavirus hotspots including the u. S. And russia were excluded from the socalled safe list of countries whose residents can enter the block Australia Japan and south korea did make the cut however chinese travelers can also enter but only after china opens its own borders its a difficult summer for tourism dependent businesses in europe with more residents stay close to home. Chelsea giuliani is on the story for us she joins us now from frankfurt so what is the reopening mean for the e. U. Well this reopening is really crucial for the european economy as you said there are a lot of countries that are extremely dependent on on travelers from abroad so. Especially countries like greece or italy they get a lot of their their revenue from from travel especially in this Summer Travel season so the lack of travel has really impacted a lot of people in a lot of businesses but this is also a bit of a disappointment for those dependent people because this doesnt include the United States which about a 15000000. 00 people travel from the u. S. To to the e. U. Every year so thats a big loss of revenue and it also doesnt include brazil russia countries like that so its not a total relief for some of these from some of these businesses you are at the Frankfurt Airport right now what precautions are being taken there. So a big part of the Safety Measures here at the airport are everyone has to wear a mask there are disinfecting stations that located it there at the airport but a lot of it is really signage so there are a lot of signs there a lot of it announcements every few minutes saying please wear a mask there arent there arent really any things like. Temperature checks things like that weve seen at other airports they do you have to Testing Centers here where you can get tested for coronavirus one of them opened earlier this week but you do have to pay for them yourself and you also have to wait a little while to get the results so i think its in general or a pretty light level of Safety Measures here at the airport. Chelsea delaney in frankfurt thank you. Well the coronavirus lock down showed many of us in europe just how much we take hassle free border crossings for granted workers who were allowed to cross those borders during the lockdown were subject to strict controls the experience has shown a light on how much germany depends on its neighbors for that easy access sometimes its the seemingly mundane things that best illuminates what it means to be part of the European Union for frank a diamond its driving through the german belgian border at the crack of dawn. Europe really is important to me and i have to say i really profit from the open borders and the freedom of movement. I like travelling and ive been to several countries with my family. Im doing my apprenticeship in belgium and its super easy all i have to do is hop over the border and simply work as normal. Franco is 18 years old since the locked and restrictions were lifted shes been able to cross the border freely from her home city of us and to house that in belgium where shes training to be a pastry chef she no longer has to produce her work contract at the border. Every week the 25 bakers here mix a ton of flour 250 liters of cream and hundreds of kilos of fruit to create tempting treats. Yet despite the huge quantities involved this is far from an Industrial Production line the focus here is on individual craft its precisely this kind of training that frank couldnt find in germany. For the young apprentice britains departure from the European Union and the increasingly anti european referee coming from both right and left its a source of worry. This comes not was i can understand it because i mainly experience the advantages also this is truly the longest period of peace that europe has ever had. But it was i says my job i had to during her break franca has time to consider how Political Developments could threaten one of her personal dreams. A dream a bit of england of a small cafe in england rex it is a really stupid situation for me. But theyve got. The franco remains optimistic for her the everyday reality of the e. U. Just void of flags anthems and pomp its what mushers the most. I want to bring you now some breaking news just coming in and a spokesperson for the on roll ethnic group and ethiopia says that at least 50 people have died in violence over the killing of a popular singer a roman musician desa was known for his political songs and had been considered a voice for antigovernment protest he was shot dead on monday night well bring you updates on that story in later broadcasts here on news and in the meantime a reminder of the top story that we have been following for you this hour Hong Kong Police have used water cannon to disperse activists protesting against the new security law imposed on the territory by beijing more than 30 arrests have been made and with that now youre up to date im sorry kelly in berlin thank you so much for watching take care and. Go. Coming. India theres increasing tension between schumanns and. 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