collapse that killed $43.00 people and injured many more political leaders and hundreds of locals have held a memorial service in the city a section of the bridge gave way during a thunderstorm last august sending dozens of vehicles onto the railway tracks below . here in germany there are concerns that the country could be headed towards a recession the latest growth figures show that europe s largest economy shrank by 0 point one percent in the last quarter that s after posting sluggish growth in the 1st 3 months of the year and none at the end of last year that s months being blamed on the low sales of machine parts and cars to china and a difficult global trade environment if the economy contracts again in the next quarter germany would officially be in a recession. we have christopher coke or from v.w. business with us to tell us more about the story how christensen so explain what s behind the slump but much of it can be linked to a dispute that germany is actually part of it s
german industrial production in june $29000.00 was 5 point 2 percent down on june last year that s the largest reversal since the global financial crisis and recession 10 years ago exports of also long been a pillar of the economy also a thing of the past right now germany s exports in june 29th teen were shocking 8 percent lower than in june 28th. industrial companies are dealing with a number of factors the trade war between the us and china is exerting a drag on the global economy. fee is also surround brags that the u.k. s impending departure from the e.u. germany s energy transition the switch to sustainable energy sources is still very much work in progress and adding to the country s woes its flagship auto industry is struggling with homemade troubles they include the notorious diesel emission scandal the conversion to electric drive systems and problems with digitalisation
a student activist the secretary general of the pro-democracy party demis so sisto he s also been taking part in these protests joshua thank you for joining us i want to ask you about some of the images that we saw from the airport yesterday there were some ugly scenes of clashes between protesters and police there we also saw protesters attacking 2 men they believed to have been from mainland china has these protests gotten out of hand we experienced a life threatening weapon were used by a pole is when police fired more than 2000 tear gas in the past 2 months and arrest 700 activists including one young lady the result in permanent blindness because of 5 bullets of riot police however no one would notice you clash and it went even further in any kind of protests that s why we still continue to hope to have more peaceful ways to uphold and to go out with them on no matter the urgent government
to terminated the extradition bill stop produce brutality and with our course for free election boards i hope people around the world could aware that how hong kong government official just stayed behind all those royal porteous and keep silence they are the one who are congo every supposed vote to respond to people s their money but they are just serving the interests of beijing be the puppet of communist authorities ok so you re saying you re protecting yourselves in the face of print police brutality. we ve seen these images of chinese troop carriers on the move to hong kong and we also saw the office on hong kong a ferris calling these terrorists like incidents these are very strong words are you worried about a crackdown coming from mainland china. or class should not be defined or so this kind of chilling effect generated by beijing i urge world leaders should prefer new tenement square massacre in hong kong happen again then they should be
a major men s match in european competition for the 1st time tonight stephanie upon steps up to referee liverpool against chelsea in the super cup. i m sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us flights are taking off again at hong kong international airport as authorities introduce new security measures the airport had been shut down by 2 days of mass protests that at times turned violent that of touched off a soul searching among the protest organizers and many have apologized for signs and tweets but they vowed to carry on with their campaign for democracy china s hong kong affairs office has condemned to yesterday s violence calling it terrorist like a ramp up in rhetoric during hong kong s long summer of unrest. from kill stick our