Relatives of those being held at the plug pulled on tesla the electric car builder was clearing a site for and met the factory near barletta but a court has ordered it to Halt Operations after its petition are mentalists and its deja vu for paris and her mom coach thomas to fill in the Champions League tonight as he returns to his former team for the year dont. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program a Turkish Court has acquitted 9 Civil Society activists accused of seeking to overthrow turkeys government in the 2013 gezi park protests the verdict was not expected judges ordered the defendants Immediate Release the defendants include the businessman and rights act. And the actor and director method. Critics have called the trial of attempt to silence or appease opposition and criminalize antigovernment protest the gezi park protests were triggered by plans to build a Shopping Mall on a small park in central istanbul. And for more im joined by yulia han correspondent it is stumble yulia how big of a surprise was this verdict. I dont think anybody saw this coming as the defendants of us journalists we were actually bracing for a tough verdict today because turkish prosecutors had asked for aggravated life sentences in solitary confinement for 3 of the defendants and long jail for the others so for anybody whos been following this trial these acquittals come as a huge surprise weve actually heard about 110 years celebrations erupting there inside the courtroom and outsides a court that is outside of istanbul here in the city and youve just mentioned also he is a well known businessmen here in turkey he is also somebody who has been doing many Civil Society projects with a european organizations and he was the only defendant behind bars he had to spend more than 2 years in pretrial just tension so todays verdict means hes going to be set free and this is of course a huge relief for him for his family for everybody supporting him and the other defendants he is one of the defendants how about the others what is this verdict mean for them. Well weve seen some reactions already there on social media theyre being widely shared ive seen one of the defendants actually saying that hes still in disbelieve this has come very unexpected but he also says it makes him happy and he would like to see this as a sign that change in turkey is a possible you have to know the defendants are active as journalists City Planners so all well known Civil Society figures here in turkey and they have been accused of a grave crime trying to overthrow the turkish government ive been talking to some of them especially last year and they told me they feel like theyre somehow part of a weird fictional movie and they cant get out of it because all these accusations leveled against them are just so. So this is how they felt about it and but i can only repeat this again for them this is of course a day a good day a day of relief what does it say about the judiciary in the country its independence and just the general state of affairs in the country. Well i think some clearly would like to see this as a sign of an independent judiciary here in turkey weve just had from istanbuls opposition may want to get present ed once party here in istanbul in the election last year he says the verdict is a true source of joy and it restores trust in the turkish judicial system but then there are others who are more skeptical because they have been saying this trial has been politically motivated from the very beginning the turkish traditionally has been turned into a Political Tool so the verdict today has to be seen as another political decision after all this trial has been going on for nearly 2 and a hols years one man had to stay behind bars for more than 2 years let me tell you what one has been saying that has been closely following this trial its the ngo article 19 they said was so relieved but still angry the gaze upon trial is a perfect example of judicial harassment the case has never made any sense you leon admissable thank you. Now for the last 3 years there have been suggestions that china is systematically persecuting its Muslim Minority population the weekers now w. Has obtained damning evidence that they are indeed being targeted because of their religion and culture a document leaked on its partners shows that china is detaining weaker people for reasons such as praying wearing a headscarf visiting a foreign website or having relatives abroad it also reveals that chinese authorities are using high tech surveillance to keep track of the identities locations and habits of individual bleecker muslims the document was made available to you at great personal risk by a whistleblower and independent experts contacted by you said that its highly unlikely that the document is genuine now the Chinese Government has always denied that it persecutes the weak or minority saying that the Detention Centers there held in our Vocational Training center is built to fight extremist ideas and provide weaker us with valuable skills just last week the Chinese Foreign minister issued another forceful denial of the mistreatment have a look jewish. No one has seen any kind of concentration camp and. No one is you know any persecution the only thing to see was people of various ethnicities and living together harmoniously these facts demonstrate that the socalled concentration camps the socalled 1000000 are 100 percent rumors they are complete fake news for. Another harsh denial from the Chinese Government there lets get more on this with nicola because he is a director for Amnesty International in east and Southeast Asia and the pacific thank you so much for joining us on this latest leak gives us a lot of new insight into the reasons that china is detaining the leaders does anything about this leak surprise you or is it consistent with your research. If i think its unfortunately its very consistent with what Amnesty International and other Human Rights Organization and journalists have been documented saying over the years that isnt all out states on sort compared to stamp out the religious political against d. Of we go as in other muslim ethnic groups in disenchant we go to thomas region the communist party thinks that any. Identity mark whether religious or cultural is a possible they call for aspiration for greater autonomy or for resistance to the gradual as simulation of the region by the chinese Central States and therefore its decided to completely stamp it out the socalled war on terror has provided an excuse and allege to mitzi that the government uses to pursue it is policies that are incredibly violative of human rights and the scale of it is really and parallel in the history of china how difficult is it to get information about this issue or are whistleblowers the only way. Or that its almost impossible to get information the moment you step foot in since you are secret police will be following you. And will prevent or intervene to prevent any kind of independent. Investigation or interviews and even more wearing go after people have talked to find those so investigators so its impossible to do and carry out any kind of independent best occasion from sin john and china has rejected all the demands by the United Nations investigators and special reporter to calm to the region what reaction are you expecting to this leak. Well i think that china has been actually pretty inconsistent in its response to allegations of mass Scale Foundation named in the show and at some point that said there was no such thing as as the camps down it needed that there were camps but that they were not forced detention then it moved and said yes these are for detention but this is to eliminate terrorism so i think there is no we shouldnt really ask what the Chinese Government says about what is happening we now have enough evidence and these elite cues is extremely important because it gives the details and the Identification Number of hundreds of people who were detained. And just continue to document and press the Chinese Government for access and for answers about the policies and scary. When the government says really doesnt matter anymore its lost all credibility respect to whats happening to igors and to various groups in india nicolay because i from Amnesty International thank you. And staying with china another doctor in china has died after contracting the new coronavirus inable han the epicenter of the outbreak the doctors death comes as Health Officials in china publish details of a study into 70000. 00 cases of the virus the report suggests that the number of new infections is falling so far the virus has killed just over 2 percent of those infected with older people and those who think existing condition is more likely to die but beijing more answers that could change when people start returning to daily life. Lets get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world afghan president has been declared the winner of septembers president ial poll following a recount ghani was reelected to a 2nd term with just over 50 percent of the vote his opponents had to say if you did the policeman area results and made accusations of election fraud. The u. N. Human rights chief michel batch of that is calling for humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee the fighting in syria as it looked and aleppo province is Syrian Government troops are advancing rapidly into the countrys last rebel held areas Rights Groups warn that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the region. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg has qualified to join a t. V. Debate and other democratic president ial candidates in las vegas on wednesday bloomberg has been rising in the opinion polls thanks in part to a flood of t. V. Ads. German bureaucracy is legendary for being thorough and pretty slow now environmental activists are throwing a Monkey Wrench into teslas plans to set up its 1st european factory near berlin a state court has to decide whether clear cutting there can continue. The german press has started calling it the tesla forest and the machines felling trees here have stopped a court order has brought them grinding to a halt the Environmental Organization glue league says the company shouldnt be allowed to continue clear cutting before it has all the appropriate permits could use if you had just starting activities right now sets a precedent these are things that cannot be reversed after all you cant just put the trees back in the ground after you cut them down because of the. Cutting has to be suspended during the bird nesting season which begins in march if tesla hasnt cleared the site by then it could delay the opening of the factory slated for next year. If it doesnt work out with tesla and i hope it does it will send a fatal signal to German Companies but also to in. Your National Investors did say that when it comes to global competition germany has grown unable to assert itself as the right place to do business. But on social media users in other parts of the world are scratching their heads at the german delay to a major investment that would bring 3000. 00 jobs tesla has already cleared 60 of the 90 head tears planned for this site the carmaker has promised to replant 3 times as many trees nearby the dispute has some people worried that tesla could withdraw from the deal the matter is being taken up by a state Administrative Court itll decide on wednesday with the cutting can continue. And fizzle in from our business desk joins me now so whats the reaction from tesla here this awaiting to see whats going to be decided by the courts that could come as you heard there today tomorrow or the next few days its a very interesting and unique situation i think for tesla specially after what it did in shanghai i mean it managed to build a gigafactory day and start rolling those model 3 days off of the band like within a year i think it was which is crazy stuff i mean but china is a very different place to germany and as you mentioned youve got this german bureaucracy to get through which is there for good reason i mean youve got communities to worry about youve got ants and reptiles and bats in those forests that people worried about and all those trees and 2nd bombs that have to be diffuse there were 7 of them but theres also jobs at stake and i mean what does it mean for the state of brandenburg if this project does indeed fall through it hang on a 2nd have you seen one of these factories i mean there arent people in their robots building all those cars but there are a lot of people who have to build robots you have to program them so we are talking about thousands of jobs. But does the region have the expertise were talking about brandenburg you know its an area that is suffering with a Skills Shortage germany is suffering from a Skills Shortage so. Its going to be really interesting to see how musk goes about this in the land of cause i think hes going to be nabbing a whole lot of people from all the other comic isnt the comic is going to be worried about that it is interesting that this is taking place in front of her because there is another project that everyone might think about Bradley Airport you know mismanagement of that project in particular the opening of that significantly delayed. Is there an issue when it comes to realizing big projects like these i dont think is it an issue in germany i think is an issue in bullett thats for sure does not have the expertise and has really stuffed up these projects like that airport my goodness i mean how many airports does china build within within a year and germany cant get one up and running just one within a year in berlin rather. It is a bit of an embarrassment weve also seen these movements against Big Tech Companies like google the google campus that wanted to set up shop in quite spec and was kicked out basically people here are worried about rents as well as the environment theyre worried about their lifestyles and they dont want to see both of them being turned into another San Francisco with people sleeping on the streets then fizzle in on the story thank you. For. Now colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was once one of the worlds most dangerous criminals yet nearly 30 years after his death people continue to romanticize his lifestyle and make money out of his brutal legacy now though as. Reports the families of escobar as many victims have decided to take action. Public bar is everywhere in the streets and shops he grins at passers by from t. Shirts key chains and even Oil Paintings pop culture has turned the founder of the many young drug cartel into an icon an icon who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people to consult this trend is horribly painful he tells me that 30 years ago his father died in a terror attack orchestrated by the notorious drug lord. And i think nowadays the people who sell these talks of products are solely motivated by the desire to make money in order to sell their contributions the hype around this figure of a crime boss who inflicted a lot of pain on this country. In this place from 9762993 escobar ruled over a kingdom of horror fueled by assassinations kidnappings and terror attacks still some of the very colombians who once lived in fear of him now seek to profit from his legacy yes some people come in and get mad they tell me this is blasphemy and ask me why on earth are you selling this but people ask for it this is after all my livelihood if i get a request i get it printed because i run a business this is. Gonzalez and geo columbia columbia remembers is trying to show the grim reality behind the idolization with its latest project oddly enough its an online store selling narco merchandise or at least thats what it looks like at 1st glance. The way it works is that if you try to buy one of the products offered on the website youll encounter the story of a victim of narco terrorism in colombia a direct victim of public record. And i bet you know woman im mugged alaina gomez and im the wife of not. Deceased and one of Pablo Escobar is a tax. He said and i would like to tell my husband that the life project we created together i try to do in the name of our love. And of our life project in is through morning noon and through predict. We love you forever. Gonzalo and his cofounder daveed arent alone in their fight against the trivialization of escobar his dark legacy through the narco store project they found unexpected allies with very close ties to the drug lord in this unit out for its own tension to prioritize the victims are the products that glorify the crimes all the story of my father those products are permanent insult to the families of those in the upper my neighborhood and the alliance for peace unimaginable 3 decades ago 27 years after public death colombia still hasnt been able to dismantle the powerful drug industry he built banning the products that glorify narco culture should be a far easier task. And also in the news today the worlds richest man jeff bezos says that he attempts to spend 10000000000. 00 to help fight Climate Change the basis fund will provide grants to people and