A celebrated seeing there is shot dead plus russians have signed off on president Vladimir Putins constitutional reforms the changes could keep in power for years to come. Off its good to have you with us police in hong kong have made the 1st arrests since a controversial new security law imposed by beijing came into force as thousands of people defied a public ban to protest the wall authorities responded with water cannon in tear gas taking hundreds of demonstrators into custody under the new law the simple act of publicly displaying a Pro Independence banner or flag has become a criminal offense. Despite the new law and a ban on holding marches during the corona pandemic hundreds of protesters showed up. After a short warning it just took minutes for the police to roll into action. One protester was arrested for holding the hong kong independence flag dozens more were arrested later at a News Conference prodemocracy lawmakers found themselves in a peace sign a situation now not allowed to speak english or dress the media. I usually say a few words in english today so that the community and the media but not hot. Because of this law. If i say anything to you. Ill be arrested when i walk out. 2 at aflac ceremony earlier in the day the territories leaders mock the 23rd anniversary of its return to chinese control after british rule. Chief executive carol lam hailed a new law as the most Important Development since the handover the purpose of this piece of legislation is not just to punish it is also to deter to deter people from committing such serious offenses as cessation something that in a state power terrorist attack at least and so on and so on. After same time chinese troops are stationed in hong kong held a joint military exercise showing off their military might for us secretary of state my pump aoe has denounced the new security law calling it a sad day for the people of hong kong he outlined washingtons response. Free hong kong was one of the worlds most stable prosperous and dynamic cities now now be just another communist run city where its people we subject to the party elites whims. Sat on friday we implemented visa restrictions on those responsible for the hong kong crackdown on monday we announced that we would end defense equipment and dual use technology exports of u. S. Original going to the territory we will continue to implement President Trump directive to end hong kongs special status and that was the us secretary of state mike pump am speaking there. Kong has been following this story for us in hong kong heres her assessment of what happened today and what all of this could mean for the future of the prodemocracy movement. On the 1st day off the internet haitien off a new security for all Police Hot Line opposed to deter any kind of an authorized political gatherings on the street by a range of weapons including tear gas and water can be arrested over 300 people on the street and among them at least 10 of them what. Music you rethink. And despite the fact that dolphins have defied police bands the tide of the protests today. Have dropped drastically add to the pot and this could be a. House really back and being used by the new along with it even if. It was the w. C. Because theyre reporting well here in Europe Germany has taken over the rotating presidency of the European Union Council Standing in front of berlins Brandenburg Gate germanys foreign minister symbolically received the baton from his counterpart today for the presidency in the 1st 6 months of this year germanys time at the helm is said to be dominated by the pandemic and its economic fallout one of the 1st challenges will be to make sure that the European Unions 7 year Financial Framework is approved by all Member States its division 6 we want to solve the most important problems that are the basis for quickly getting out of the economic downturn into which we got as a result of the corona pandemic this has to happen in solitary to no one should be left behind steve even in europe Everyone Needs to do well because a need then we would be able to profit from each other i want to ensure a europe becomes united as a united front against the background of competition between the major powers the United States russia and china we will only be able to defend our values and interests in future if we do so as europeans its. Not. The German Foreign minister speaking there earlier today in ethiopia at least 80 people have been killed in protests following the Fatal Shooting of a popular singer. Who was known for songs advocating for the right of the countries around the ethnic group smoke was still evident over the. Region after the clashes today does it was regarded as a voice against political and economic repression and supporters turned out in their thousands after he was killed many of them blame Security Forces and say that his shooting was politically motivated. Why has the death of a singer calls to so much outrage earlier i put that question to. From our africa desk. Title is known for his resistance the song or the song the song much more focused on political operations economy cooperation all the automobile people and its been really white lisa liberated superstock. Especially between 20142000 during. This the songs we used. To unite people for the protest and finally. The protest. That it seemed to come up with some reform. That is not only kids. Calling is. This a good divorce i. Dont want to. Hurt or model. Or this does. Oh and it got me and also dont i. Get more rights. And other. And equal. There was no spoiler from our africa desk a week long vote on constitutional changes in russia has come to a close an early results indicate that president Vladimir Putin has won broad support for the changes that he was supporting with nearly a 3rd of the vote counted more than 70 percent of russians voted in favor of the changes which would allow putin to run for 2 more terms as president. President Vladimir Putin is probably the only person who came to this moscow polling station without a mask. Today is the last day of the russian wind vote the kremlin even declared a bank holiday so that as many people as possible could take part. The constitutional reform has already been legally approved by the countrys national and regional parliaments and to a public vote to validate the move the investments provide for many popular social changes including regular pension increases and a minimum wage but theyll also allows law to me putin to continue running for president theoretically he could remain in the kremlin till 2036 this man voted no he says i dont need a new czar i like it because im afraid of change and whenever things change in russia we end up worse off than before. And you. At some polling stations voters were only required to show their passports election observers were not allowed complete access and while voting was still in progress the 1st results were published with the procedure is highly questionable voted self the whole process was invented solely for this purpose a referendum like this is not even provided for in the constitution. Going by already published preliminary results it looks like a big majority favors the amendments are going for more on this lets go now to our moscow correspondent really sure were going to need to you and we know that the Russian Parliament has already approved the constitutional amendment so why was this important for president putin. The parliament has approved the amendments and actually the constitution has been on sale here the new constitution for several weeks already but this vote was important for bloody near putin to show that he has the publics backing after all this vote and these amendments determine his political future since he was reelected putin was reelected president in 2018 the debate here in russia between political observers has been how he might stay in power and if he doesnt stay in power who he might hand over power to so in a sense this amendment this these amendments to the constitution and this vote kind of decide that whole question and some observers say that this will it was actually rushed through now because surveys show that trust and bloody mir putin is falling and the lockdown measures over the coronavirus here in russia have hit russian the russian economy hard and this vote in a sense is kind of referendum on putin himself so it was important to hold it now. We understand that there have been reports of. This what more do we know. Well the author already is here in russia took a lot of measures to kind of ensure the safety of this vote during the pandemic including spreading out the election over 7 days allowing online voting allowing people to vote at home and independent monitors here from for example the monitors goalless they say that a lot of those measures actually make it easier to manipulate the vote so if the vote is spread out over 7 days that means fewer people are at the ballot box that means its easier to carry out ballot stuffing there have been polling stations outside with kind of the ballots basically visible to view there have been a lot of stories about the online voting thats been taking place here in moscow and not going to another city as well because people have sort of gone and voted twice theres been several reports about that here once online and once at the polling station the Central Electoral Commission on the other hand has said that there have been basically no big violations and that many of the reports on violations are fake. Sure and with the leaders from moscow thank you for coming up on this weeks edition of conflict zone due to be used to sebastian talks to the National Spokesperson of the ruling b j p party in india the reason cloned between indian and chinese troops on their border in the himalayas. When i went to. Their follow that in that the land had all their i dont know yet was something. That. They didnt know that despite that instructor and dad got him back and they were. So this all happened in the no mans land is that right is that what youre telling me it didnt happen chinese territory and it didnt happen on indian started to the clear implication from all this fudging is that the chinese did cross into what you regard as indian territory but you wont admit that because you dont want to appear either weak for letting it happen or worse being asleep on the job and not reacting until it was too late which was it. That but one of their the who shot john it still is essentially dead at. That groups of the people the shock of a you know just a 2nd death. And in that if you wish that that actually meant that nobody should come. And you can watch that entire interview in about 15 minutes from now or you can watch it online slash conflict zone youre watching t w news ill be back at the top of the island with more world news followed by the day tonight the new report on transatlantic tie in the pandemic to see that. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning