detentions and as you said they re stuck what are their perspectives. as i said it s difficult because there is no way out of these detention centers and that there is no way back so what we are calling for from the government of germany is to have to be tensions and that they have the according for if a coalition of the people who currently detained in these sent us and be calling for safe harbor us to make sure that people who were rescued at the sea have a place to go right chris of high from doctors without borders here in berlin thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today. this is news these are our top stories beijing has summoned the german ambassador after joshua wong the hong kong democracy activist met germany s foreign minister in berlin long urged world leaders to back the ongoing protests in the territory but beijing has accused germany of meddling in its affairs and has warned that the meeting between wong and the german foreign minister will damage bilatera
the seventy s and the verse 3 of the founding of the people s republic of china and that is something that is angering beijing off of course beijing is trying to limit the space for its critics abroad it has been doing so for some years companies who have for example listed taiwan not as a province of china but as a separate entity have felt beijing and had to change their websites and printed materials and governments have also been under pressure not to meet with beijing s critics in 2005 and met with the dalai lama. met was a diplomatic response and economic sanctions by the beijing government she has not met the dalai lama after and no other western leader is meeting the dalai lama has been meeting the dalai lama in recent years and social long was now one of the most prominent critics of beijing is probably experiencing
a similar thing pressure on foreign governments is mounting not to meet with him not to give his criticism a platform some material what about this direct response from beijing that there could be consequences for ties between china and germany what could that mean. while it starts with diplomatic responses german deployments would not get appointments with senor fishes or would hard to get to a point that the senior officials not be invited to some events diplomatic events celebrations at cetera it could go further sanctions on german companies or inspections that german companies suddenly face economic threats and in the end there could also be a boy caught it has happened before north korea japan they all have experienced boycotts by the chinese public incited by the government on their companies however
government should stop selling equipment to the hong kong police as long as there is ongoing violence being used by the police in crowd control and thirdly he said that he thinks germany should tie trade more closely to human rights for example possibly suspending trade with china or imposing sanctions and or inserting human rights clauses into trade agreements with china so 3 very clear messages to the german government aren t much yes let s come to you now and get beijing s perspective on all of this why is china so upset about his visit. beijing is extremely nervous about what s happening in hong kong the protests have gone into their 4th month no and they do not show any sign of dying out beijing the hong kong government have tried lots of things to scare away protesters to suppress their movement to calm down the protests none of this has worked and
with hong kong democracy activists joshua what wang here in berlin beijing is accusing germany of meddling in its affairs and has warned that the high profile meeting will damage bilateral relations mr wong urged world leaders to back the ongoing protests in hong kong. or relatives of zimbabwe s former leader robert mugabe have snubbed a plan to have him buried at a national monument he was overthrown in a coup 2 years ago and replaced by a former ally in the squabbling over the location for mugabe s funeral as even thrown into doubt the date of his burial at the moment he is due to be laid to rest on saturday. the. robert mugabe s body being carried into harare is rafah a stadium to lie in state his black clad widow grace was at her late husband s side