under surveillance of palestinian family tells d.w. how that navigating life in a unique west bank all claims as israel nice plans to onyx the territory. i'm still go welcome to the program china has passed a new security law for hong kong which many fear will remove the territory's autonomy and democracy it will allow authorities to crack down on activities in hong kong that it got that china because it's a subversive and secessionist and could see protesters that dealt with by beijing or thoughts is rather than inside the territory chinese lawmakers passed the new rules on tuesday sparking protests internationally and in hong kong itself. they feel and this might be their last chance to protest. today's flash mall been a shopping center was small but defiant everyone knew things were changing and some fit showing their faces. today i feel to meet a couple that is very sad because they can't pass a law and they even don't know the details of the law and they just pass it with no one to reject so. i think most of all not people they are scared as was. the details have now been released the chinese security law will crack down hard on what it terms terrorist activities it criminalizes subversion and secession efforts as well as for independence and could enable chinese authorities to operate in hong kong those convicted could be jailed for life and will be barred from standing in elections. it was scenes like these last summer that prompted the law huge demonstrations in favor of democracy and against chinese influence overwhelmed hong kong and embarrassed all thora she says hong kong's leader kerry lam told the united nations the law was nothing to worry about it will only target an extremely small minority of people who have preached the law while the life and property basic rights and freedoms of the overwhelming majority of hong kong residents will be protected but fear is reaching pro-democracy activists joshua one is now in hiding but expects to be arrested he says he's resigned from his group to protect them as saying if my voice will not be heard soon i hope that the international community will continue to speak up for hong kong and step up concrete efforts to defend our last bit of freedom. a law school to support hong kong as in the scared new world. straight to hong kong venue where we join correspondent to phoebe are welcome so this law is now in effect i believe you've read it what more can you tell us about it. it's national the new law will regulate 4 main categories of times including the session suppression terrorism and collusion with foreign forces so all of the categories of crimes would carry a maximum penalties a life sentence in prison so this is much posher than expected to me for and on and and. the. point is. the definition often times it's not it's not that it's not clear enough for people to buy by the law apply some poll one of the clauses saying that. he was trying to. induce a hatred to was home home or china's government could be if you find like humming the national security of the people you worry about like the definition of the law it's not clear and i was small is that the law may a further come to hong kong's independent judiciary which has seen. hong kong's autonomy alone but that case says the handover but not the law says some of the hearing can be on the file can be held will start but not open so this. actually overflowed the traditions off the rule of law and they are open to the show which additions in hong kong and all of the the socialist made by the national security committees in the future would not be challenged by people. this is going to send a chilling. so what is the. pro-democracy movement. the new law definitely sound a chilling effect to this to. many people they may state silence in the shop for me feel because they are not sure whether this law will. how how would the fact that they live because. this go well that a wide spectrum of odd categories of crimes in everyday life leads to many albeit behaviors a legal be a caveat one now be illegitimate it is legitimate right now so people fear so i think the activism and the street protests will definitely be effective given the fact that many high profile have already been tied at all with that party and some of them may stay low profile for a while. thank you for the phoebe call and. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world is torrential rains in southern china matters severe flooding forcing more than 700000 people to flee their homes much of the damage has been felt in south western provinces such a 6th one of the downpours full cost to spread from central and eastern regions this week. tens of thousands of people of march through saddam's capital khartoum are calling for reforms and investigations topping that list is justice for those killed in last year's uprising wish led to the ousting of president omar al bashir the prime minister says he's transitional government is listening to the protesters demands. the chairman of german football club shall clemens tanya's has quit the ongoing scandal and the conditions of his meat packing plant in western germany or than 1500 plant employees have tested positive for the corona virus leading to a new lockdown in the surrounding region. for the 1st time a raging reigning belgian king has expressed regret over his country's colonial abuses and the country that became the democratic republic of congo in a letter to the president felix such as the k.t. published on the 60th anniversary. the country's independence from belgium a king philip communicated his deepest regrets for the suffering and discrimination inflicted by belgian colonizers the country was on the belgian colonial rule for 75 years during which belgian forces killed and committed other acts of violence against millions of congo ladies and brussels the prime minister the belgian prime minister sophie vilest unveiled a plaque commemorating congolese independence even the british the time has come for belgium to embark on a journey of research a journey of truth a journey of memory but 1st many work on the truth and memory involves acknowledging the suffering acknowledging the suffering of others. this recognition was clearly expressed this morning by our sovereign in his letter to president xi sic ag to the congolese people. let's go to capital that says in brussels welcome so how is brussels marking a 60 years of congolese independence. from apart from the event with the belgian prime minister which you have just seen no major public events in the capital here in the city of kens another of those controversial statues of the emperor leopold the 2nd is coming down today but apart from that a lot of belgians with congolese descend and i've just come back from the center of town where a lot of people have been out on the streets gathering in mumbai square the square named after the 1st prime minister of the democratic republic of congo has debated the prime minister's wards and they welcome the idea of a of an in depth the bait without of booze about the colonial legacy of this country and that is also true for a person with congolese descend i have met and went see historian here from brussels here's a story. finally i'm betsy feels a little less alone. for years the art historian has tried to challenge the way belgium deals with its colonial past now she's among thousands calling for the removal of all monuments of the country's longest serving monarch the man who headed up a brutal colonial regime in what is now the democratic republic of congo king leopold the 2nd. we all know that those features have a symbolic belward and i'm totally convinced that for some people. they are they don't want us to demonstrate or they will don't want people to demonstrate and to see with these shows not because they want to keep those issues there they want to keep else in our state years of inferiority and. i'm glad she was born in belgium but had to fight racism all her life she struggled to forge a career in the arts facing many rejections now she has opened her own gallery that spotlights the work of black artists. because the recession here is very sceptical and this is what mrs nixon saw dangerous and so home flew to there are so many examples like if you're looking for an apartment you have to see underslung yeah that you know don't waste my time unplug. maybe. oh maybe you're right the apartment has a really neat has already been taken statues of leopold the 2nd like this one in the seaside resort of ostend are everywhere but there's no mention that his lavish public spending was financed by congolese robber and no mention of the millions of congolese people killed in the process instead the official website dire. acts tourists through a walking tour highlighting how the king's achievements bolstered the town's prestige. 100 she is collecting her son she wants him to learn as much as possible about his family's history her old mother still remembers the brutal reality of colonial rule in the midst 20 century an effete they're not our parents back in africa didn't want us to see how they were abused so one day they told me not to come near but i was curious so i hid and saw how they slapped my father. why are they doing this i asked. and he replied i was punished because i didn't have enough money to pay our taxes. and then simple. ranbaxy knows that many parents of congolese descent do not like to share our unpleasant memories but for her son and the generations to come she feels transparency is the best way forward. to india to this a close family so transparent. all those family secrets are passed down from generation to generation and raise on people telling you when you say things clearly this is a life future generations to cope with a passage so they don't become victims of what remains in our collective consciousness seem to suggest he has to do and predict if everywhere you go in belgium you come across colonial monuments confronting the reality of this past is a painful but crucial process what's he feels now a 1st step has been made. so gayle got masses. expression of regret and not quite an apology what do you make of it. let's be clear phil the people in belgium and in particular belgium people of congo least the send have been waiting a long time for a signal like this one thing philip is the 1st monarch. who has expressed this kind of regrets now if you compare it through an apology of course there is less legal scope for reparations for instance and that is what many congolese demands in this case and what they would like to see is money being put on the table rather than just war was but as one activist told me today at least it's a foot in the door it's a 1st step. mattress in brussels thank you. israel where the cabinet could be poised to debate whether to annex several jewish settlements in the occupied west bank the move would inflame tensions with the palestinians and any future peace negotiations over the status of the territory. is a palestinian own claim on the west bank and just outside jerusalem and completely surrounded by village of israeli settlers only palestinians with an extra permit are allowed to pass through ministry checkpoints tensions that have been particularly high of the recent days w. correspondent tania kraemer has been to visit this tunnel road leads to the palestinian village of beit exeunt next to the security barrier that separates israel from the occupied west bank at this particular spot the fans of the israeli barrier was built around a house belonging to one palestinian family that i it's live in this almost unique enclave right next to a jury settlement the entrance gate and cameras are remotely monitored. like other palestinians sad as they had wonders what will happen to his home if the settlement becomes officially part of israel a move based on the controversial you as peace proposal put forth in january. i consider the annexation we hear about lately to be a soul of american and israeli arrogance in order to confiscate more land. that the israeli and american governments just want the land but without the people . who don't share so far israel hasn't presented any official maps to explain which areas it could next cursed and where the lines would be drawn and i have is concerned that the move could lead to yet more isolation and further restrictions on movement is specially since the tram plan and visions only limited enclaves for the palestinians. that. this not a future there's no hope my hopes are gone because of the support we see for the israelis that. nobody cares about us palestinians at all which had to work a lot of beyond a shadow work mash up of all of the union hate movement between different parts of the occupied west bank is already very complicated for palestinians so now we also want to go to the settlement it's just literally and lead away from us but to get there we have to drive to the nearest checkpoint and it will take us some time. it's more than an hour's drive to cross the kalandia checkpoint near ramallah only palestinians with an israeli permit can cross from here. from there we return to the settlement of given high. school is one of the settlements founders like most residents he's waiting for more details on the an exception plans from the israeli government. significant things that could come out of the transplant is that it can open up. very positive opportunity for us to expand settlements for our children and it's also good for the people on the other side of the family i think. if an exaggeration goes ahead it's expected to be a long process on the palestinian side of the fence uncertainty is crowing us once again maps are refigured without the people living there having much say about where the lines are drawn. and german defense minister ahmed. has ordered the partial dissolution of germany's elite kaskade commandos as follows reports of right wing extremism in their ranks reports say the unit which specializes in anti terror and rescue operations may face a major reorganization and up to 70 of its $1400.00 personnel could be cut military investigators announced that this year that they suspected 20 k. ask a person out of holding extreme right at each unit media reports quote the defense minister saying the unit has a toxic leadership culture and cannot continue in its present form. it's going to d.w. political correspondent thomas sparrow welcome thomas it sounds serious what more can you tell us. phil it not only sounds serious it also is very serious but it's also important to stress that these allegations of far right extremism in the german military are not necessarily new we've had many stories in the past of possible cases what makes this particularly serious now is on the one hand that it has been described as a new dying mention in the german military this comes from the m a d the m a d. is the military intelligence agency one of germany's 3 federal intelligence agencies and 2nd that it involves in particular the k s k you already mentioned that in your introduction and when we talk about the k s k we're talking here about a very special military unit within the german military we're talking about these special c'mon forces that for example rescue germans when they have kidnapped or that have to do a lot of work in war zones so very special forces and the fact that we're now hearing these allegations within the k s k makes it even more important for the german defense minister come. to present these solutions she will be talking about her proposals purser lucian's tomorrow right here in berlin where she will be presenting a series of measures to try and make sure that this particular problem not only in the k s k but also generally in the german armed forces can be solved because it takes something that is of particular importance here in this country you mention of the have been past incidents why has it taken so long for the german government to react. and this is one element that has been criticised by the opposition even saying for example the german government has trivialized these instances in the past if you specifically look at what the german government has been doing they have reacted to these incidents in the past and as i mentioned i could come count and our set a team to try and understand how all this happened why it happened and what can actually be done she will be presenting those results tomorrow from what we've been able to find out there will be a series of measures up to 50 measures which includes proposals right from prevention to trying to improve reaction processes to recruitment of soldiers and as we saw in the introduction the dissolution of one of the companies of the k s k briefly thomas does this mean the end of germany special forces no it doesn't mean the end of the special forces that is something that was discussed but it was also not agreed on as of now it specifically mentioning this one company within the k s k plus all these other measures but no it does not mean that the special forces will be disbanded entirely political correspondent tom aspira thank you. and they use agree to reopen its border to 14 countries on a so-called safe place to travelers will be granted entry in july some large companies some large countries like russia brazil and india have been excluded also notably absent is the united states a major hotspot for corona virus infections and one of europe's biggest sources of tourist income. rome's biggest sights are once again open for tourists but for americans there's no place at the table a painful reality for many businesses. and more temperate than. american tourism is very important. as it's a country with many inhabitants and the number of tourists is very high they always come to rome or they always have come if they don't come everything will be attractive. to us was europe 2nd largest source of non-domestic tourists in 2018 when the u.k. is counted americans even visited ireland and higher numbers than brits. one possible bright spot travelers from china could soon be allowed back in the e.u. chinese tourist numbers have steadily gone up over the years. still the going is slow for europe's top destinations this summer even europeans are staying closer to home and that could leave many businesses with no other choice but to shut their doors. and read it became an atheist online platform to act against hate speech on monday closing down 2000 accounts and crackdown on the tech company said it is aimed at communities that promote hate me how it is here with the story at welcome so why is this move significant because the headlines in recent years have focused on facebook and twitter and read it has gone under the radar but it's a place that has long made facebook and twitter look at the time by comparison to the tongue of the discussion there it's a place where in past people of color openly ridiculed as a place in the past. with users have been able to traffic stolen photos so that's what made it quite remarkable that on monday reddit came out and shut down 2000 groups on the grounds of bailout heights but so finally some movement they included the the largest pro trunk community called the donald down 2016 red it hosted a q. and i where mr trump took questions from from the audience they were once shut down for their affiliation with mr trump but he's the individual among those 2000 pages that have been shut down who's lost the most these last 800000 followers just on the site ok and that's far from the only blow that donald trump has suffered a lot of recent weeks right so we know about how twitter came out in fact check some of his tweets. for making false claims and that warning shot has now echoing across all media platforms just minutes after reddit announced that it's banned live streaming saw twitch announced it had suspended president trump channel for rebroadcasting a famous speech in which he called mexican immigrants write this now add that to earlier this month snap chat a social media platform very popular with the younger audience announced it would no longer promote donald trump's official account within the app that alone on on twitch on a snatch at rather is 1500000 followers than and no longer in touch via that platform facebook and twitter make no mistake it's still far and away the largest audiences he has but from the the some of the these pots from they small audiences on these platforms add up to something significant because of the demographic it's the younger voters many of whom will be 1st time voters in this next election so where do they go now. the $1000000.00 question trump's digital campaign director dense giving you know is asking for these displaced social media followers to go and download the trump campaign app for it where they can speak they can say what they want when they want how they want directly to that audience so from that loss there might be a win no one can say for sure that suddenly these millions of people can no longer rates the president might want be listening to him but they do at least have a job rehabbing these political cost of eyes now months out from the election and the house d.j. of the use of social media yes thank you. now you watching got the doubly news live from brother and i as a reminder of our top story this hour and china has passed on national security law for hong kong but many fair will erode the territories autonomy and democracy it criminalizes subversion concepts session efforts of us from us foreign interference was convicted it could be child from life and bottom stopping and elections. official up to date move you up the top of things out in the meantime of course that's always the web site you can talk all you can focus on instagram and twitter as well. 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