a must for to pay attention to hong kong s protests and showed us a part to hong kong sort of high station safeguard hong kong is not only the responsibility of hong kong people but also the responsibility for world leaders prefer to hong kong to face the next tenement square massacre happened for decades ago on monday wong met german foreign minister heiko must prompting shop criticism from beijing it summons germany s ambassador accusing but then of interfering in china as a fan as. the only go. and see what happens you know i m fortunately have to say will have negative consequences on bilateral relations and china will have to react. to the. at berlin s home old university just one packed tight 3 he had to his message was one have to finance and a strong belief in the power of the protest movement in his home city no matter youngster
a life lived on 2 continents. let s get a recap now of our top stories here on t.w. the european central bank has unveiled a fresh stimulus plan aimed at boosting the eurozone economy it includes another cut in interest rates which will push borrowing costs further into negative territory. beijing has summoned the german ambassador after the hong kong democracy activist joshua wong met germany s foreign minister in berlin beijing s accusing germany of meddling in its affairs and as warned that the meeting of berlin will hurt chinese german relations. and nigeria has repatriated hundreds of citizens who had been living in south africa after a wave of siena phobic violence free evacuation flights have been bringing nigerians from johannesburg back to lagos. coming up next on news asia pakistan s ambassador to germany tells us that the kashmir dispute is bigger than india and pakistan this is an international dispute is
most prominent critics of beijing is probably experiencing a similar thing pressure on foreign governments is mounting not to meet with him not to give his criticism a platform mathias you know what about this direct response from beijing that there could be consequences for ties between china and germany what could that mean. well it starts with diplomatic responses german deployments would not get appointments with senior officials or would hard to get to a point that the senior officials not be. to some events diplomatic events celebrations at cetera and it could go further sanctions on german companies or inspections that german companies suddenly face economic threats and in the end there could also be a boy caught it has happened before north korea japan they all have experienced
these protests are now threatening to overshadow beijing celebrations of founding the seventy s and a verse 3 of the founding of the people s republic of china and that is something that is angering beijing of course beijing is trying to limit the space folk for its critics abroad it has been doing so for some years companies who have for example listed taiwan not as a province of china but as a separate entity have felt beijing s and had to change their websites and printed materials and governments have also been under pressure not to meet with beijing s critics in 2005. with the dalai lama it was met was a diplomatic response and economic sanctions by the beijing government she has not met the dalai lama after and no other western leader is meeting the dalai lama has been meeting the dalai lama in recent years and social one who is now one of the
tallis they re concerned about joshua wong and what will happen to him when he returns to hong kong such 1st he s heading for the united states where he hopes to gain more support for hong kong s pro-democracy movement. all right let s get some analysis on all of this we have our chief political correspondent linda crane here in berlin and our correspondent in hong kong good to see you both melinda let s start with you so how is the german government reacting to beijing s quite harsh criticism of the joshua ones visit the foreign ministry rejected the criticism saying that it is perfectly normal procedure for the for the foreign minister to meet with a representative of civil society from another country and yesterday in her speech to parliament the chancellor said very clearly that human rights are indispensable to germany in regard to the hong kong chinese tensions and that she had conveyed that message on her visit to beijing last week she also said that germany