is ongoing violence being used by the police in crowd control and thirdly he said that he thinks germany should tie trade more closely to human rights for example possibly suspending trade with china or imposing sanctions and or inserting human rights clauses into trade agreements with china so 3 very clear messages to the german government all right much yes let s come to you now and get beijing s perspective on all of this why is china so upset about this visit. beijing is extremely nervous about what s happening in hong kong the protests have gone into their 4th month no and they do not show any sign of dying out beijing the hong kong government have tried lots of things to scare away protesters to suppress the movement to calm down the protests none of this has worked and these protests are now threatening to overshadow beijing celebrations of founding
support the 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 former and 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 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 absolutely stands by the principle of one land 2 systems when it comes to china and hong kong
in berlin he came to the german capital with a message for angular machall and other world leaders is a must for the chancellor pay attention to hong kong s protests and showed us a part to hong kong 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 a decade ago on monday while met german foreign minister must prompting shop criticism from beijing it summons germany s ambassador accusing but then of interfering in china s affairs. 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.
search for that led to work for up. to debbie reports from el paso the city mourning those killed in a neat cannes mass shooting. i m sorry kelly welcome to the program china has issued a stark warning to protesters in hong kong a government spokesperson in beijing says that punishment is coming and they should not underestimate the strength of the central government police also announcing that they had arrested more than $148.00 people after clashes on monday the largest single day tally since pro-democracy demonstrations began 2 months ago our correspondent charles charles impale was in the thick of the protest last night and sent us this report. the scene as
prison if they re charged with rioting it s a heavy price to pay for a night on the street with her. and joining me now is joshua wang activist and secretary general of the pro-democracy activist group demo sisto welcome to the program and thank you for joining us as we just heard there strong words from beijing today warning that protesters like yourself are playing with fire and that punishment is coming what s your response cheering. us generated by. this useless because protests do continue i will cause for free election and democracy rule never stop even we have experienced 800 tear gas yesterday were fired by riot. but surely joshua i mean you must be worried you must be worried that this could