and moscow police tracking down on a protest against constitutional amendments that could give president putin another 16 years in power. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today spain has been paying his respects to those who've died during the coronavirus and demick spain is one of the hardest hit countries worldwide with at least 28000 people dying of covert 19 thankfully pay the prime minister no other guests including relatives of those who died laying flowers at the royal palace in madrid in remembrance of short while ago the ceremony was broadcast live on t.v. and online. along with the grief there is anger at the way the government's handled the pandemic did only as young philip schultz met one woman who lost her mother and is determined to bring to account those she believes are responsible. rose unlike a studio always found peace of mind in caring for houseplants but not anymore thoughts keep circling around the 7th of march the day she learned of a corona virus outbreak in her mother's retirement home her mother had a loss for life even in old age even if dementia had w

president vladimir putin was probably the only person who came to this moscow polling. without a mask it was the last day of the nationwide vote the kremlin even declared a bank holiday so that as many people as possible could take part in the constitutional reform had already been formally approved by the country's national and regional parliament puton turn to a public vote to validate the move the amendments and shrine many popular social changes including regular pension increases and a minimum wage but they'll also allow putin to keep running for president directly he could remain in office till 2036 this man voted no he says i don't need a new tsar. i like it because i'm afraid of change whenever things change in russia we end up worse off than before you started playing some voters only had to show their passports as proof of identity the election observers were not allowed complete access and well voting was still in progress the 1st results were published with the procedure is highly questionable the vote itself the whole process was invented solely for this pu

in moscow for us thank you evan. the british city of bristol has a new skull and paste a statue. pulled down last month a sculpture of black players who helped topple him now stands in his place the all clear was installed without permission and the on wednesday. if. if the moment that sparked a nationwide to pay supposed head to deal with britain's colonial past. the 17th century slave trader at work colston was pulled down by black lives matter protesters in bristol and june. and tackling the face of many of his victims thrown into the sea. the print he once looked down from now has a new occupant local resident chen read. the artworks inspired by a viral instagram post but read the and picturing her shortly after the coast and statue was toppled you know for me it will not play you know i raise my fist and i raise my fist to give power back to the people back to the slaves who died at the hands of pollsters and titled a surge of power at the sculpture was installed without the local councils approval and intervention dreamed up by our says mark quinn you know we had to keep it

i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today antiproton protests in the russian capital moscow have ended with more than 100 arrests demonstrators have gathered to collect signatures against changes to the constitution passed earlier this month police moved in quickly and put an end to the gathering. dozens of arrests follow anti-government protests in the russian capital where officers in riot gear forcefully rounded up protesters people took to the streets to protest the outcome of a recent referendum on constitutional reforms that allowed president putin to govern for another 16 years. we do not accept the results of the constitutional reforms vote we believe it was all raked we are against the crackdown on independent journalists we are for a rotation in government and we want our country to have an opportunity to live well. it's going to. be controversial votes that amended the constitution earlier this month also included populist measures such as an effective ban on gay marriage as part of their campaign protesters also collected signatures against persons new measures $5000.

here in moscow last week dozens of people protested in individual single person protests against the arrest of a journalist many ended up detained themselves. single person protests do not require a police permit. yet human rights observers say that in the last 4 and a half weeks 270 russians have been arrested for demonstrating peacefully. this is the state's answer to the civil courage of a citizen exist who dare to resist restrictive and repressive measures citizens are showing their rage and the state oppressors them for it. all of this the silencing of political activists the jailing of government critics and of protesters is nothing new but what is striking is that such cases are becoming increasingly frequent again yet activists like honest as you have refused to let these repressive tactics shut them down. is soon to say if we don't organize ourselves to have some influence over the situation if we don't decisively say no. i don't want to then nothing will change then we'll be stuck in prison cells again after our statements from our posts are like some tweets. this week the

the latest now with to their views if joining us from moscow good danger of on a walk you tell us about the police arrests. i was quite interesting yesterday being on the square for the 1st 2 hours or so police sort of just stood by and watched and let the protesters gather it was quite quiet signatures were collected and then at the end few young teenagers started flying a gay pride parade gay pride flag against the ban on gay marriage and the crowd started getting rowdy here in about 2 hours into the protests a group of the teenagers group off the square and they started marching through the city center they collected something like 20300 people along with them and as i was following them along overheard one of the cops say we're going over you know detain them on bats and that's essentially what we saw we saw about 150 people detained and out of around the 300 and so that was you know quickly cleared out of the streets and the by the arrests as they are usually most of these protests are quite violent you see people ripped off into the police wagons and taken away most of these peopl

this is deja vu news live from berlin protests in russia calling for a future without president putin moscow police cracking down on the demonstrations more than a 100 people arrested after protesting against reforms that could give putin another 16 years in office also on our show rising waters behind the renaissance danny theo pierre threatened water shortages downstream in egypt and in sudan could the breakdown in talks over water between these countries lead to a war over the not. and many of india's migrant workers left their jobs in the cities to flee their coronavirus now back at home they risk living into crushing debt so they can just feed their founders. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today and he putin protests in the russian capital moscow have ended with more than 140 arrests demonstrators gathered to collect signatures against changes to the constitution passed earlier this month police moved in quickly and put an end to the gathering. dozens of arrests follow anti-government protests in the russian capital where officers in riot gear forcefully rounded up protesters

earlier i spoke to our correspondent in the show there in moscow and asked her what was happening where she was. well i'm in the center of moscow at pushkin square where opponents of the these constitutional amendments have called on people to kind of gather for what they say is a public discussion people here have said that these amendments essentially will mean that they hope that russia will have an eternal putin and they said that this whole vote is a farce that's what people here have been telling me that's what the people who called for people to gather here have said as well there aren't that many people here as you might be able to see behind me and that's because the opposition here in russia is very divided and including on this vote some people have said that you should stay home that you should boycott the vote some people have said you should come out and be counted to kind of say that you are against this vote now the situation here is pretty calm there is a lot of police at this where they were preparing i guess for more people to come out but the police even have been ha

in moscow for us thank you evan. and now to some other stories making news around the world the u.s. secretary of state. preparing new sanctions against a russian gas pipeline project any firms that help construct the old scheme to face penalties the trumpet ministrations phase the pipeline from russia to germany would make us more dependent on russian energy. new satellite images show that ethiopia has been filling its controversial grand when they stand on the river nile the move is likely to spot prices from both egypt and sudan which depend on water from the now talks between the 3 countries on the issue ended in deadlock this week. iran says it needs 7 ships have been damaged in a blaze that broke out at a shipyard in the 7 course. there has been a string often explained fires and explosions at military nuclear and industrial sites across the country since late june. and flooding is continuing to take its toll on north eastern india is a some stage over 2000000 people have been displaced the floods also inundate

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it's discussing with international partners possible meshes in response german foreign minister haiku moscow has called developments in hong kong exceptionally worrying. these protest is a worry to the they've pledged to try as hard as they can to keep their voices heard. well for more i'm joined now by reinhard critical for he is the chair of the china delegation in the european parliament he's also the foreign affairs spokesperson for the german green party mr berger coverage good to see you again international reaction to to this the security law in hong kong it has been very tame almost muted and that includes the european union why hasn't brussels been able to come up with a concrete statement in reaction why don't we haven't heard anything yet. well 1st of all on this day i think we should all. say thank you for the courageous the fenders of democracy in hong kong and express our great level of solidarity with them it is a fact that the european parliament in its last session did adopt a resolution that spoke out very clearly and we identify measures that should and could be taken if b

also coming up hijacked barack obama bill gates and moscow are among the high profile figures whose twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your account. hundreds of thousands of india's mind migrant workers left their jobs in the cities to flee the coronavirus now back home they struck 2 feet that found. a classic german novel 21st century make up a new film based on the novel bellino that sums up plots tells the story undocumented migrant who tries to build a life and germany's capital but gets caught up in the criminal underworld. of his welcome to the program spain has been paying its respects to those who have died during the corona virus pandemic it is one of the hardest hit countries worldwide with covert 900 claiming at least 28000 lives at the royal palace in madrid. phillipa and community joins members of the government and their families of sorrow and the families of some of the victims in a solemn ceremony e.u. leaders also attended sending a sign of solidarity ahead of a summit on friday i would still discuss a controversial

protests planned for next week in moscow and st. petersburg have been banned. >> russian investigators searched the offices of and became media in moscow thursday -- mbk media. they outlet is funded by kremlin opponent but the journalists working here can only speculate for the reasons behind the red. >> and the area could be anything, some article someone did not like -- in theory it could be about anything. they seized our quitman and refused to return it. -- they seized our equipment and refused to return it. it is a way to disrupt our work. >> earlier this week and respected journalist saffron off was arrested and charged with treason. the most recent he worked as an advivisor to the h head of rus's space agency and he is accused of spying for an unspecified nato member which he denies. the 30 year old faces 20 years in jail at convicted. at a closed heaearing, a court decided he must remain in custody. >> reviewed the decision by the district court as unfair and in violation of the law. we plan to launch an appeal within the le

hopes although police have so far left the much as in peace moscow has a habit of coming down hard on dissent. journalist i've been going to call which has been covering this story for us and he sent us this assessment of the protests in russia's far east it's truly one of most surprising protests we've seen in years in russia in all of putin's 20 years the 1st protests that took place here 3 weeks ago was 40000 people a week later last saturday we saw 50000 and today estimates around as much as 90000 and to put that in perspective there's about 600000 people who live in the city of karbala so it's like 10 percent of the city is coming out to protest the main thing that the protesters have repeated day after day is that they feel that their choice was taken away they feel that even if the governor is guilty of these crimes he should be tried here and about if they voted for him they feel that moscow the kremlin has taken him away for a political reason these alleged murders were 15 years ago so if they did take place they believe that the kremlin would have dug this up a long time ago

and canada accuse moscow taggers of targeting labs working on preventing the spread of coronavirus to russia denies any involvement also coming up a turkish court sentences german turkish journalist and denis you're jealous of almost 3 years in prison for spreading a what he calls terrorist propaganda the verdict is expected to strain relations between ankara and far left. you and the children in the gaza strip and getting adults everywhere a lesson in perseverance to after a pandemic lockdown at least n.q.t. athletes are back on the pitch today. i'm going to read and welcome to the show the u.k. u.s. and canada are accusing russian agents of carrying out cyber attacks to steal information on potential covert 19 vaccines according to british and u.s. intelligence the attacks targeted coronavirus research centers and were carried out by a p t $29.00 a hacking group linked to the kremlin also known as cozy bear it's the same group that was blamed for interference in the us elections 4 years ago moscow has denied any involvement. well washington correspondent stephanie simon has been fol

brent: for more on this vote, let's go to our moscow correspondent. we know the russian parliament had already approved the constitutional amendment, so why was this vote so important for president putin? emily: the parliament had approved the amendments, and the constitution has been out for several weeks, but the vote was important for putin to show he has the backing of the public. after all, this vote and these amendments determine his political future. since he was reelected, in 2018, the debate here in russia between political observers has been how he might stay in power and if he does not stay in power, who he might hand over power to, so in a sense, this -- these amendments to the constitution and this vote kind of decide that whole question, and some observers say this vote was actually rushed through now because surveys show trust in vladimir putin is falling, and the lockdown measures over the coronavirus have hit the russian economy hard, and this vote in a sense is kind of a referendum on putting himself, so it was important to hold it n

around the world today russian police have arrested more than 100 people at an opposition rally in moscow demonstrators had gathered wednesday in the capital to protest constitutional changes passed earlier this month the reforms could allow president vladimir putin to stay in power 16 more years. china's economy is back on the block returning to growth in the 2nd quarter the economy expanded by 3.2 percent year on year that's higher than experts predicted it raises hopes of a similar recovery elsewhere in the world. another 1300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week roughly the same amount as over the previous 2 weeks millions of american workers have lost their jobs since the coronavirus and the national unemployment rate stands at 11.9 percent. u.s. president donald trump as replace his campaign manager. less than 4 months before the election the man taking over his former deputy bill stepien the reshuffle comes as trump trails his democratic opponent joe biden by as much as 15 points in the polls. for social media platform twitter was hit by a massive hack dupes peo

a top target for russian interference but it says officials turned a blind eye to allegations that moscow is trying to influence king votes such as the referendum. now the british have it in black and white the kremlin interfered in the $24.00 teens nonissue independence referendum members of the intelligence and security committee also believe russia intended to. it's the bricks that referendum to help so discord in the e.u. but they say the government was not interested that no one in government knew if russia interfered in or sort influenced the referendum because they did not want to know the u.k. government of actively avoided looking for evidence that russia into field their report says that the 2014 referendum in scotland in which 55 percent of scots voted against secession from the u.k. was the 1st post soviet interference by russia in a democratic election in the west russian influence is the new normal says committee member kevin jones so the question is is who is protecting british public from interference in our democratic process when a no show we found no one is parliamentar

media in moscow on thursday a multimedia news outlet is funded by self exiled kremlin opponent may hire khodorkovsky but the journalists working here can only speculate about the reasons behind the rate. in syria it could be about anything some article that someone didn't like. was a bit of a seized our equipment and are refusing to return it. you know it's a way to disrupt our work. earlier this week respected journalist eve on safronov was arrested and charged with treason he most recently worked as an advisor to the head of russia's space agency. is accused of spying for an unspecified nato member which he denies the 30 year old faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted. at a closed hearing of court decided he must remain in custody who it would. be useful to review the decision by the district court as unfair and in violation of the law we trying to lodge an appeal within the legal deadline that. other journalists and former colleagues are shocked they've protested against after nobs arrest and started a petition demanding the allegations against him be made public they fear there c

and packed in hijab barack obama bill gates and moscow are among the high profile figures to use twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your account. classic german novel as a 21st century make over a new film based on the epic book alexandre plots tells the story of an undocumented migrant who tries to build a life in germany's capital but gets caught up in the criminal on the. m gallop as well come to spain is how the state ceremony to pay tribute to corona virus victims and medical workers but the national struggle is far from over spain again faces a surge in cases and an e.u. fund that could prove a lifeline for the country's battered economy is still not certain what today's focus was not on the future. it was about remembering the 10s of thousands the nation's lost. it's been a difficult time for us country king sleeping and his wife queen the t.c. presided over the solemn and dignified ceremony for the trainee 8000 spanish victims of the coronavirus. or usually get on showed what emotion can restore memo to you today is a day

and britain leveled even more allegations against moscow today accusing russian actors of trying to disrupt last year's general election. the foreign secretary has said this wasn't done by illicitly acquiring sensitive documents about a planned free-trade agreement with the united states and leaking them on social media. russia says it will respond to what it calls the u.k.'s unfriendly actions. the fbi has launched an investigation after several high-profile twitter accounts were hijacked by scammers. prominent figures including barackck obama, elon musk, and e biden wewere among those target. the hack saw fake tweets sent from the accounts attempting to dupe people into donating cryptocurrency. an important agreement over how people's online data is shared between europe and the u.s. has been ruled illegal by the european court of justice. privacy activists had argued that the accord was unlawful because it gives the u.s. government access to european citizens' private data without their consent. spain today recorded its highest daily increase in coronavirus infections in almost two month

hopes although police have so far left the marchers in peace moscow has a habit of coming down hard on dissent. we shift now from russia to a legit russian influence in foreign democracies this week the british government published a long awaited report into alleged interference in his political system by russia or its agents the report criticized the u.k. government for failing to prepare for or fully investigate possible attempts to influence its elections and referenda the british parliament intelligence and security committee looked into the influence of bots and trolls which are fake accounts used to spread misinformation on social media. and a reporter i even him has been following the story for us and she's here with me in the studio for more and hello to you i am so firstly maybe if you could just explain to our viewers what exactly is a troll or a troll campaign so researchers at the university of princeton who have been looking at this issue have come up with this definition that a troll campaign is a cord needed group of accounts that simultaneously spread a specific mean

it says officials turned a blind eye to allegations that moscow was trying to influence key votes such as the brexit referendum. >> now the british have it in black and white. the kremlin interfered in the 2014 scottish independence referendum. members of the intelligence and security committee also believe russia intended to influence the brexit referendum to help sew discord in the you they say the government was not interested. >> no one in government knew of russia interfered or sought influence in the referendum because ththey did not want to know. u.k. government have actively avoided looking for evidence that russia interfered. >> the report says the 2014 referendum in scotland in which 55% of scott's and voted against secession from the u.k. was the first post-soviet interference by russia in democratic election in the west. russian influence is the new normal says committee member kevin jones. >> the question is, who is protecting the british public from interference in our democratic process? in a nutshell, we found no one is. >> parliamentarians suspect this is why prime min

government of a region on the border with china was detained in the city of khabarovsk and flown to moscow in large murders in search of take place in 2004 and 2005. years of seized rescue boats operated by the german n.g.o.s sea watch claiming doesn't comply with safety regulations the vessel see what's 3 was used to rescue more than 200 people stranded at sea last month in april it's a live band migrant rescue ships from docking at its ports because of the coronavirus. now euro zone members have chosen irish finance minister pascal donahoe to lead the currency group's financial policy making arm think euro group donohue styles himself as a consensus come visit from the one southern in member states and had the backing of the european conservative parties the best in spades deputy prime minister not to count vina favored by southern countries like france and italy don't have real numbers help oversee the e.u. 750000000000 euro zone of orange covered. let's get more on this from marina stress brussels bureau welcome marina so lots of lots of us have heard of the euro group so explain to us

hole was found in its balance sheet the austrian nationals reportedly staying at an estate west of moscow under the supervision of russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service. facemask compulsory in all of france's enclosed public spaces following a series of new coronavirus outbreaks face coverings were already required on public transport and in some establishments france brought down infection numbers after 2 months locked down but authorities fear a resurgence a ceremony has been held in berlin to mark the 76 anniversary of a failed attempt to assess the night. it was attended by a defense minister on a great come who also swore in new recruits to the german armed services during her remarks she reminded them that their loyalty is to their country and not to any particular leader. trumpet salute for the heroes of the german resistance. ceremony was held at the site of plots and a prison in berlin where many of the conspirators were executed after their plot to kill hitler and failed. on the 20th of july 944 german army officer class from shelf and bag led the attempt to kill the dic

he is aware of the challenges ahead of him all will be looking to july 24th when it finally opens on moscow. correspondent or in jones in istanbul speaking to us a little earlier there now for an update on the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic france has become the 6th country to report a total coronavirus death toll above 30000 the world health organization reported a record increase in the number of cases on friday with the global total jumping 228000 in 24 hours and the colombian capital bogota will begin a 2 we quarantine in certain neighborhoods on monday as a sharp increase in infections threatens to overwhelm the city's health system. don't forget you can always get d.w. news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if your part of the news story you can also use the d w f to send us photos and videos of what's happening. now after nearly a decade of delays venice has successfully tested a new flood areas syst

many people here are happy that they had us a few years now in moscow again but there's also a lot of criticism the european union has called the decision regrettable the u.s. a disappointment pope francis said he was very distressed and unesco wants to review the august sophia status as a world heritage site. the criticism does not only come from abroad like yours or that some people in istanbul consider the hagia sophia decision to be a political maneuver by outlining. their doctrine already have enough mosques in istanbul we don't need another one i think this has clearly been a political decision. to make us wonder if you just do that to distract people from the actual problems in this country the economic crisis and high inflation he was and is all about i also feel how he is a fear is a museum because i am absolutely against making it a mosque because istanbul is home to many religious beliefs but if she hears. the. tourist guide young his quarter shuttle for example belongs to the greek orthodox minority in turkey people in his church see themselves as descendants of the byzant

and the united arab emirates alone she's the arab world's 1st mission to moscow the hope truck aims to provide the 1st complete picture that chinese. i'm sure gal welcome to the program you counsel present shall michelle says he's confident a deal on a 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery package will be breached e.u. leaders are in their 4th day of talks tensions have been running high with the core disagreement concerning how the funds will be distributed the latest proposal includes $390000000000.00 euros of grants and $360000000000.00 of loans that will have to be repaid hit southern states like italy and spain have been pushing for bigger grants but a group of so-called frugal northern european countries want the bulk of the money to. but he does loads with more checks on how it's spent so these prime ministers he said become terry says he's cautiously optimistic that the rift can be overcome and hid knowledge that negotiations have been tough to leave that there is a limit that must not be exceeded for the dignity of italy and for the dignity of all the other countries which ar

and canada to use moscow's tappers of targeting labs working on preventing the spread of coronavirus russia denies any involvement also coming up on the show a turkish court sentences german turkish journalist denis huge out to almost 3 years in prison for spreading what he calls terrorist propaganda to the verdict is expected to strain relations between ankara and for less. and what does it take to recover from covert 19 tonight a survivor tells us how she's coping both physically and mentally. i'm going to richardson a welcome to the show the u.k. u.s. and canada are accusing russian agents of carrying out cyber attacks to steal information on potential covert 19 vaccines according to british and u.s. intelligence the attacks targeted coronavirus research centers and were carried out by a p t $29.00 a hacking group linked to the kremlin also known as cozy bear it's the same group that was blamed for interference in the us elections 4 years ago bosco has denied any involvement. washington correspondent stuff and simons has been following the story for us a stuff that what exactly ar

target for russian interference but is accused of phish shows of turning a blind eye to allegations that moscow sought to influence key votes like the brakes at referendum and i responded big it must joins us now from london to get these to suggestion that russia interfered with the 2016 breaks that referendum. well this is actually the biggest surprise that came out of the publication of this long awaited report that the government had not instructed the intelligence agencies to look for this possible interference and the such the security committee the parliament tarion the committee of the u.k. couldn't really say whether there was russian interference or not because they are only working with the material that the intelligence agencies would have supplied and the intelligence agency agencies just hadn't been instructed by the u.k. government however the report does point to threats by russia they say that russia is an established threat and they mention for example the poisoning of alexander litvinenko the spy who was murdered in the streets of london in 2006 and of course there were also t

decade but supporters say they are politically motivated several was detained last week and flown to moscow for pretrial detention. the u.s. government has put a drug kingpin to death in iowa he was convicted of killing 5 people it's the 3rd federal execution carried out in the u.s. in just 4 days the same number as conducted over the previous 3 decades in a 54 decision on thursday the u.s. supreme court ruled executions could proceed. french officials have launched an arson inquiry after a major fire at the cathedral in the western city of not the blaze has now been contained in authorities are treating the incident as a criminal act. footage showed flames leaping inside the gothic monument and a large cloud of black smoke dozens of firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze at the p.r.s. on paul cathedral this comes just a year after the devastating fire at the cathedral of notre dame in paris one of france's greatest architectural treasures was bringing to the view correspondent lisa lewis who's monitoring the situation from paris lisa tell us more about the damage and what the firef

was found in its balance sheet the austrian national is reportedly now staying at an estate west of moscow under the supervision of russia's she argued military intelligence. the 76th anniversary of an attempt to assassinate out of hitler has been memory added with the swearing in of the new armed services recruits in berlin germany's defense minister on a broad compound our was among those who attended the event to pay tribute to the conspirators behind the 1944 briefcase bomb plot. colleagues and friends have remembered top craney and journalist pothole sharon that a monument was unveiled at the site where his car was blown up in the capital kiev 4 years ago the suspects have been charged with the murder but his supporters believe that they may have been framed in order to hide his real killers. britain has suspended its extradition treaty with hong kong amid growing international criticism over a new national security law imposed on the territory by china the foreign minister dominic crossan announced the decision made rising to ensure staging problem said that he had concerns about the