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DW DW News July 14, 2024

Sebastian cortes looks set to return to power after his Party Wins Parliamentary Elections but its unclear who will form a government with support for his former partner the far right Freedom Party has collapsed. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us and china celebrations are taking place to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule the main celebrations are due to take place on tuesday with a huge military parade in Tiananmen Square but beijing fears that the anniversary could be overshadowed by the prodemocracy protests and unrest in hong kong. On the eve of the anniversary a ceremony to honor the creation of the communist state and the heroes of the civil war chinese president xi jinping paid his respects to the fallen. In the evening he attended a theatrical celebration that recalled chinas rise from a nation in despair to the worlds 2nd largest economy. October 1st 1949 maos a donkey cleared the founding of the peoples republic of china and transformed the country. His great leap forward aim to industrialize the country but instead left it devastated famine was widespread and tens of millions died mouse cultural revolution followed opponents were sent to camps or executed in his attempt to purge china of counterrevolutionaries. After decades of isolation beijing took steps to open the country and its market up to the world. Today china is on the podium of a world leading nations but rapid growth has come at a cost. Cities are choked by pollution and society is strictly controlled. Behind the spectacle authorities are hoping the prodemocracy movement in hong kong doesnt mar the landmark occasion for the worlds longest surviving communist state. Is covering the celebrations in beijing this week and sent us this assessment. Nationalism has been at the heart of communist Party Propaganda since the beginning since the founding of the peoples republic of china and tomorrows parade is clearly aimed at the domestic public to show people that the party has fulfilled this promise that china is an ascending world power now this comes at a time when other ways to legitimize the communist partys grip on power have become more difficult to fulfil Economic Growth is slowing down there is a trade war with the us and there is unrest in hong kong all challenging the partys power so it is now trying to show the world and the domestic public that it is in control and it is powerful. Well as we just heard there china fears that this anniversary could be overshadowed by the prodemocracy protests and unrest in hong kong. Reports. Its images like these beijing hoped would have long been stamped out chinese president xi jinping trampled underfoot. Instead mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the peoples republic of china and these protesters are no mood to celebrate. With the world watching closely they want to capitalize on the attention and make them and ahead we should be a great day but we really can find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what do you have suffered i hope to make our country attention to understand more wides we are going to fight for this this spring is a good one to protest to. Come home and we all lose who 5 feet of where we will go much are all. Also arties hit their mass on rest on cheese day they want to avoid a repeat of more scenes like this. Images of angry young patients is threatening to pull focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass Authorities Police have made clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated by us theres only so much they can do to keep people off the streets instead of massively scaled back the annual celebrations to prevent them from being swarmed by protesters ordinarily this area behind me is packed with people marking the anniversary this year though all the ceremonies have had to be moved inside inside that building that roadblocks like these ones stopping people from even getting close. In the evening a massive fireworks display that usually lights up the sky behind me drawing thousands has also had to be councils. If you look hard enough you will find some signs of support for the anniversary a few lone flags lined the streets of a neighborhood known for its prey beijing sentiment. One local shop owner tells me hes looking forward to the anniversary but even he will be marking it privately. I will spend the day doing my duty as a chinese citizen i will do my best to run my business well and keep working. As the night falls these few symbols of support for beijing torn to the ground prodemocracy supporters unwilling to let even the slightest hint of celebration go untouched. Lets check in on some other stories making news around the world a national day of mourning is underway in paris as World Leaders gather for the funeral of a former french president Jacques Chirac current president in monaco paid his respects touring a military ceremony at the invalid monument. In moscow authorities have lifted a hefty prison sentence for actor pavol off after a public outcry the state of had been given 3 and a half years for assaulting a Police Officer during a protest but authorities backtracked after footage of his arrest emerged showing Security Officials beating him hes been given a one year suspended sentence instead. Thailands Prime Minister has urged bangkok residents to wear face masks as a toxic smog envelops the capital tiny dust particles in the atmosphere have reached Dangerous Levels according to officials campaigners say the government is failing to tackle the cause pollution from industry and cars. Turkish president regift i have heard of one hopes a new safe zone in northeastern syria will do 2 things give them a place to repatriate Syrian Refugees and create a militarized area to keep kurdish militants away from turkey southern border area one that said he was determined to establish the zone by today the end of september but his government and the u. S. Have different ideas about how big the zone should be everyone says hell act alone if there is no agreement Syrian Refugees in turkey say some are already being deported back home to areas including the north which according to them are far from safe our correspondent julieann met a woman who says her son was sent back against his will. Mohamed has been gone for almost 2 months when often a show thinks about what happened to her son she feels helpless lost. In early August Mohammed was riding a friends motorbike in istanbul the bike was unregistered mohammed was stopped by police and then sent to a detention center. About 12 days later i got a call from mohammed. He said theyve taken me to syria to live that was his last phone call i havent heard from him since. When have i am heart broken when me fled from syria he was still a small child. Now they have sent him back to that place. And i dont know where he is. Istanbuls fattish district is an area where many syrians live many here for heard that the turkish authorities have been deporting refugees in recent months and most of them are afraid that they could be next. When they started sending people back i was so scared i didnt leave my house with. The ambiguity of when there are more restrictions on us now people are being deported back to syria but we cant escape turkey for europe anymore because its too dangerous. Started to deal. With it and we syrians used to feel welcome here it will learn its changed. Now we feel like unwanted migrants again. Turkey has taken in more refugees from syria than any other country more than 3600000 people in the space of a few years hundreds of thousands live here in istanbul theyve set up stores of breast strongs theyve tried to build new lives while Turkish Society initially responded with more marketable resilience hospitality is now rapidly wearing thin. Took both iran if more of them come i dont want to live in this neighborhood and in this country anymore. Its me. I get along very well with most of the syrians here there are some bad people but you get that everywhere you go and i guess we want them to leave as soon as possible we dont want them here anymore because the childress in the turkish president of tired out one has recognized this change in public sentiment in the past few weeks he has made repeated promises that millions of syrians will return home to a socalled safe zone that he wants to establish in the north east of syria. But the government insists deportations are not taking place and that syrians who are returning are doing so voluntarily. That merit check who goes disagreeing is the lawyers trying to help get off the racial son back from syria mohammed and his family have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkeys constitutional court. Sending a person to a war zone as a serious human rights violation of the mohammed is not an isolated case which hopefully this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months of the. Last the lawyer says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at a high cost paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. I know how ms mother often is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. That report from did abuse yulia han and she joins us now from istanbul hi yulia you met the mother who we saw there she says her son was deported from turkey back to syria and this is not the only case do we know anything about the scale of these deportations. Cases of syrians being sent back against their will have been reported before but the scale of the recent crackdown which started in july is unprecedented it seems n. G. O. S and refugees say hundreds of syrians have been deported in recent months some even say thousands but we cant independently verify these figures we spoke to more than a dozen Syrian Refugees who all told us that they had been rounded up some of them on their way to work and then later put on buses and sent to syria including to the north a Western Province in syria the last rebel house stronghold which faces a syrian russian Bombing Campaign all definitions a war zone mohammeds family now fears for their boys lie if because they believe these in the hands of a Jihadist Group in it they Say Something very similar happened to the neighbors of them whose son was supported to it live and taken by jihadists they shot him in the hat and later sent a photo to the family this is of course a horrifying account the turkish government on the other hand flett lee denies such to potations claims it says more than 300000 syrians have returned voluntarily to areas controlled by the Turkish Military since 2016 what about the public yulia we saw in your report that theres been a change of sentiment toward Syrian Refugees what is behind that. Well turkey is hosting the largest refugee population worldwide that of course poses a huge challenge but off the 8 years the public sentiment here has turned increasingly hostile according to a recent poll more than or around 70 percent of the turkish population say they have a problem with the syrian presence here in the country they accuse the syrians of taking their jobs or benefiting too much from publics. Services and this comes amid an economic downturn here in turkey and these antired sentiments really cuts across political lines some even say at this has caused prison and one a key p. Among other reasons to lose the istanbul election to the opposition here a few months so early and so its a lot of domestic pressure and i think thats an important reason to explain why prison add one is pushing for this socalled safe so now in the northeast of syria where he says he can recession up to 3000000 refugees. Reporting for us from istanbul thank you very much volkswagen is heading to court in germany today the carmaker is facing a huge lawsuit over the diesel emissions scandal hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers have teamed up to demand compensation for the v. W. Cars that they bought the lawsuit is the 1st of its kind in germany lawmakers pave the way for a class action proceedings after the Diesel Scandal broke in 2015. This could be a watershed moment for germanys legal system 4 years after the emission scandal broke hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers now have the chance to hold the carmaker to account. Its the 1st ever Class Action Lawsuit to take place in the country similar auctions in the United States have seen consumers come away with billions of dollars in compensation. Really good of analysis was far more confident about winning them and that the arguments speak for themselves 1st the leaders knew about things from the star sides and the w. Hasnt put forward anything substantial that cant contradict the. Quotes lawyers maintain that the carmaker has removed the emissions cheating devices and argue that diesel owners cannot claim for compensation while continuing to drive the offending vehicles in the heart of value to this day hundreds of thousands of vehicles are still in use by customers for us this means that there is no damage and therefore no reason for compensation these days hearing comes just a week after german prosecutors charge 3 v. W. Executives including current boss happy with market manipulation accusing them of failing to inform shareholders about the Financial Impact of the emissions scandal. Further indication that the costs of germanys biggest postwar industrial scandal are still being counted. In austria former chancellor courts and his conservative Peoples Party are looking to build a Coalition Government after winning the biggest share of the vote in the general election on sunday quits is set to return to power after his party secured 37 percent of the vote a comfortable majority but not enough to govern alone could serve as chancellor until may when his government collapsed over a scandal involving his far right Coalition Partners the Freedom Party they saw a dramatic slump in votes yesterday. And lets go right to day one he is in vienna for us hi max youve been talking to voters there in vienna how do they see last nights result. We tried to feel the wind of change on the streets of yeah you have to keep in mind before watching those sound bites that we collected that this really isnt the place where people vote for the right wing Freedom Party thats outside of vienna outside of the big cities thats where the strong holds are for the far right Freedom Party we try to look for supporters of the Freedom Party to have a balance but we didnt find it here still very interesting what these people had to say take a listen. To im disappointed about the social democrats results and wanted them to do better for me im happy about the greens and yes i find whats been happening with populism in austria and europe quite difficult. I had been hoping for the greens and the liberals but thank god in the end the far right lost on the lawn. Bizarreness everything to tell a main ingredient clinton did and im glad the greens are back in parliament but it still doesnt say right with me right off because the right wing populist party so have so much power and nobody really understands what sebastian courts really did would have us was supposed to equip 3 peat moss and its a close dick honestly its great you know exactly what i was hoping for and im not curious about coalitions and what the Coalition Talks will bring but what about that Coalition Building max abbas in courts has to form a government now what are his options. Sebastian coe its kept all his options open before the elections but youre right now of course you will have to choose and one option is this former Coalition Party the Freedom Party but they have already announced that it would prefer to be part of the opposition for them its about rebuilding the party about rebooting the party they want to focus on internal compliance as you know all their scandal ridden they have huge corruption problems and they want to get rid of that to get back into politics afterwards 2nd option social democrats with their worst result in the history of the Austrian Social democrats so that might get them inclined to being part of the government to increase their relevance on the other side theyre very far away of that bus and coaches policy especially in social policy matters so experts here in vienna think that is not very likely either and that leaves us with the surprise winner of sunday with the greens mathematically it would work between the austrians people party as a bus and colds and the greens people didnt really anticipate that happening they probably would be quite close together on certain issues just like with the social democrats it might be difficult with social policy nevertheless here in vienna most people think this is the most likely coalition yet mathematically next and could work how about practically how would this coalition with the greens work. Yeah let me get into into the those details a little more really mention Climate Policy Economic Policy so this would all be green economics you could imagine them coming together there a very difficult topic though would be migration its about circle its known for his hard line the greens not so much and then social policy is about socalled whats to cut taxes the greens want to invest in that area so it would take them some tied to a lie thos

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