Cuts to education and health care. In the latest budget cuts, france moves to protect its police staff. Will it end up a road in press freedom in the country . Well look at the controversial draft. Will that would make filming on g, v. Police officers a crime. And in the bundesliga, all eyes were on mine strike a shown fairly meditator kids to see inside pay fribourg, a visit on match day. I am rebecca richs welcome to the program. In hong kong, 3 prominent activists have played it guilty as a trial begins over their involvement in last years prodemocracy protests. Joshua won ivan lamb and agnes chalo, all expecting jail terms for inciting and organizing an on off arised assembly. The isnt related to a protest outside of Police Headquarters in june of last year on kongs prodemocracy movement has faltered since beijing imposed a sweeping National Security law on the territory that has severely restricted political speech. Joshua long has now been remanded in custody, but before entering the court, he had a message of defiance for supporters. Neither person both the election, both nor any other of the Current Power will stop us from activists on. What we are doing now is to explain the well off freedom to the world through our compassion. The hope we love so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our all prepare for the finch was of walking free. May god bless hong kong and we will continue to fight for freedom. And now is not that high for us kowtow to beijing and the surrender. Thank you. Strong words there for just one for more. Im joined by material burning a in beijing mathias. The defendants including joshua wont move the figurehead, some might say, have pleaded guilty now. Whats the sentencing likely to be yet they are all in. Their reminded no and waiting for their sentence to be announced that we the next week offense carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison. Its however likely that the sentence would be lower than that, because handing out the maximum sentence would require a higher level off court. Handing down the sentencing. Joshua one had originally said he would fight the charges, but has changed his mind to plead guilty. Why do you think that was they have decided to speed up the process. I think it was very clear that they could not we didnt all defy this court. There is a crackdown going down going on against the protesters of hong kong. Might be a reason for his decision. What is also noteworthy is that this is a process under the hong kong common law. The often is all of the paragraph that we are talking about is one that is remnant off the old colonial british laws. And it is negotiated in regular hong kong court, joshua long my each await a much harsher sentence under the National Security law. If he had won this case, they would probably not have left him and let him off the hook. So i am pretty sure that all these conditions to gether made it look like a better option for him to do so. And what impact will this court case have on hong kongs try to moccasin, if meant in this court case and its own is probably something that everybody would expected already last year. What has a much wider impact on the protest movement is this National Security law that introduces the arbitrary chinese judicial system into hong kong that provides for secret trials and all these things. This is much more scary to the hong kong people and to the protest movement than these court hearings. These sentences by the regular course under common law find it is telling us, speaking to us from beijing. Thank you. Late is of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit, promising to supply covert 19 vaccines and tests affordably to all the worlds, people. A virtual gathering of the g. , 20 group hosted by saudi arabia and to ease worries that poor countries could be left behind. As the pandemic deepens, divisions between rich and poor Climate Change and the environment emerged as the other main things during the summit. A 1st for an arab nation hosting a summit of the leading industrial countries, even if it was a virtual gathering dominated, of course, by the pandemic. But with the environment also high on the agenda again must be for not insoluble. But in india good. Comprehensive and holistic greedy. The g 20 should continue to take the lead in tackling Climate Change. We need to follow the guidance of the United Nations and push for the full and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Most of the leaders made the right noises about the need to protect the planet. But in typical style, u. S. President donald trump defended his decision to pull out of the agreement. The paris accord was not designed to save the environment that was designed to kill the american economy. I refuse to surrender millions of american jobs and central years of american dollars to the worlds worst polluters and environmental offenders. And thats what would have happened. German chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the need to help poorer countries to deal with the Economic Impact of the coronavirus for the 1st time in a long time, we see an increase in global poverty. We need to act resolutely against this in our meeting today. We therefore stressed the importance of private investments in particular in africa. It was left to the host king solomon of saudi arabia, to close the summit with an upbeat message. We have got held up a commitment to Work Together to meet the challenge of the covert, 19 pandemic, to save lives, and livelihoods, and protect the most vulnerable. Now the world must put its faith in the coronavirus vaccines in development. And in the g 20 leaders promise to distribute these fairly and affordably our correspondent in brussels, teri schultz has warned how a you ladies reacted to the outcome of the summit. G. 20 leaders wrapped up their 2 day Virtual Summit, promising to support developing countries as the whole world struggles through the pen demick and the economic devastation its brought in. Their final statement. Leaders of the 20 largest economies pledged to make a vaccine affordable and accessible for everyone. European commission, president or school of wonderland says that will take more money. She was among the leaders writing to the g 20. 00 summit, asking leaders to make up a 4500000000. 00 shortfall in a program run by the World Health Organization that would guarantee equitable distribution. So well see if the leaders put their money where their miss it is, and come up with the extra cash. European Council President sean michel reacted to the outcome by calling for a new treaty on pandemics with the World Health Organization as its cordoning body. Now as awkward as the Virtual Summit appeared at times, the Saudi Crown Prince on behalf of the outgoing presidency, actually called for this to be made. A fixture of the g 20 agenda. He said there should be a Virtual Summit every year in addition to the annual in person one. Lets have a look now. At some other developments in the pandemic astra zeneca says late stage trials show its vaccine is highly effective against the Novel Coronavirus team said the vaccine offered 70 to 90 percent protection. It comes a week after 2 other drug makers reported back over that 19 vaccines were almost 95 percent effective. Chile has reopened its borders to International Visitors after an 8 month shutdown arriving passengers will have to present evidence of a recent negative test and undergo a true week surveillance period. China says its ramped up its testing on frozen foods all 30 say it comes after they repeatedly found traces of the corona virus on imported products and their packaging. Well lets turn to some of the other stories making news around the world. Human Rights Groups say bellerose police have arrested more than 300 demonstrators in the capital. Minsk, thousands protested for the 16th. Straight sunday, calling on president Alexander Lukashenko to step down. They accuse the president of rigging elections in august in the u. S. Joe biden is pushing ahead with preparations for Office Despite president Donald Trumps continuing refusal to concede the election. Media say biden will nominate Anthony Blinken as secretary of state when he announces the 1st of his cabinet picks. Lincoln served as deputy secretary of state and Deputy Deputy national secretary, advisor jury, in the obama administration, with the russians who are going to remove him. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there should be no return to the 25th day iran nuclear deal. That was abandoned by president owner trump. Some observers say netanyahu comments as a direct message to joe biden, who has said hell rejoin the deal if iran resumes strict compliance with the people of became a fast so been voting in a president ial election, overshadowed by a rising to hottest threat president rock club, or a is expected to win reelection, though opposition candidates have criticized his failure to contain the violence opposition parties of one of massive fraud and threatened not to accept the results of mahlers government has condemned unrest that led to the burning of the countrys Congress Building on saturday. The protests were part of growing demonstrations against a conservative president , president out 100. 00 young men say for approving a budget that sparked outrage in the impoverished Central American nation. Most of the funds were in march for infrastructure projects, while spending on education and health care was cuts in the morning after workers clean up the debris. What demolish government says protestors who set fire to the countrys Congress Building on saturday are guilty of terrorist acts. But a Human Rights Group said the Police Used Excessive force against them. At least 12 were injured and dozens of others arrested. It was both, i guess my hands raised in the air, but to me, 58, policemen still came and beat me. They put their boots on my head. I think theyre images of that. The truth is that its just not right. We must remember that we are no longer in a dictatorship and all got to go. I mean, what you write most ilia it we had a long yesterday i was arrested for documenting the demonstration in the square. Im a documentarian and a photo journalist. I was doing my job when the Police Attacked me and illegally arrested me. That it only made it to italy and thousands of demonstrators had gathered in central Guatemala City to protest cuts in education and health care spending. The new budget was negotiated in secret and approved by congress before dawn on wednesday. Thank you yet more want that than that i had the people cant stand it anymore. Is it over there . Burnt the building because theyre angry and because the president doesnt help them in his own party, the people are knee deep in their suffering. They are hungry and in mississippi that who is going to help them eat if the president has all the money. He had most likely that barack obama to get passed yet that theyre not going to meddle. Vice president. Responded to the protests with a drastic proposal. For the good of the country, i have asked the president that we both present our resignation from office him as president and myself as Vice President , but we must do it together. But president aleksander refuses to step down clinging on to power despite the widespread outrage to france. Now where the government has proposed a sweeping new security bill following a series of recent terror attacks. Among other things, the new law would make it a criminal offense to publish images of Police Officers with intent to cause them harm. Its found and outcry among journalist unions and Free Speech Campaign is on. If reports from paris, french documentary, the monopoly of violence is a hard hitting examination of Police Brutality in france. Released earlier this year, the film focuses on the yellow there spotless as well as allegations of police abuse in the suburbs. Filmmaker darva differend related footage, provided by journalists as well as ordinary citizens, posting on social media. But making a film like this may not be possible in future with the french government proposing a new security law. Part of which cracks down on the broadcast and sharing of images of Police Officers. Differences, the law erodes basic freedoms and puts france on a slippery slope. Police violence has existed in france for decades, especially in the suburbs. Today its well documented, its filmed. Social media allows for the easy broadcasting of these videos. What lawmakers want to do is stop the circulation of these images, and at that point, youre not in a democracy anymore. Much. On the approval of democracy, the French Parliament has been debating the controversial law. One of its provisions, stipe, relates jail time and a fine of more than 50 1000. 00 for anyone broadcasting or sharing identifiable images of Police Officers with the intention of harming them. Its a large demonstrations here in paris as well as in several other french cities. Journalist unions and Rights Groups are up in arms saying that recording officers in action is essential to being able to condemn the actions of violent offices. Many believe the law which applies to board journalists and citizens will lead to a sense of impunity, of police at demonstrations that often turn violent. I know friends who are really scared to go to demonstrations because of the violence, the rubber bullets and the tear gas used by police. And the one thing that protects us is taking a video. The law wants to protect Police Officers so that they can hit people without consequence. Jorma used journalists have been hit and injured by police, especially in the last couple of years. And until now, the Police Version of events could be question thanks to images and videos. Campaigners here fear that the new security law could have a Chilling Effect on press freedom. They say that of citizens and journalists are dissuaded from filming the police. It may make it harder to hold certain officers to account. The french government says the law is necessary to protect Police Officers in the line of duty. The countrys Largest Police union, which has been pushing for the law agrees with the government, darted olivier revathi says indiscriminate posting of images of offices, especially on social media, has led to a dangerous backlash. Today several of our colleagues of victims of had a small they or their families are threatened in certain low income neighborhoods, even find walls with the names of Police Officers saying that their daughter or their wife would be raped. Its completely unacceptable. The new law can protect and put a stop to this recent terror attacks and growing unrest. The protests have prompted the french government to take a harder line on security. But the proposed law is only expected to deepen divisions and fanned further mistrust between the police and the public. As the 2nd wave of corona, virus infections grips europe, the pandemic is stretching Health Care Systems to breaking point. Ukraines underfunded hospitals are struggling to keep up with a surge in patient numbers. Amid the spike frontline medical workers are among those suffering the most. They wus connally, visited a hospital overrun with covert 19 patients and heard one doctor story. It wasnt, i knew that id get sick of eventually. When i got the news that i was infected, it was such a blow. I cried. Ive done all i could to stay safe. This place is my baby. No one ever saw me here without a mask. When i was rather critical, my name is only known craft. Im a senior doctor here at the hospital in the u. Bar. Critters there. Most of the doctors and nurses here have gone through kobe, had we had a big outbreak here in the town with as many as 58 new patients in just one day. Many of them were very ill. And im a neuro pathologist by training, but i had to learn how to operate a ventilator. There was no choice, a patient was dying and i didnt know what to do. I did some reading and called my husband who is an anesthetist. He was telling me what to do over the phone on the loudspeaker. And it worked. Its hard to explain just how happy i was that everything was one of my fathers friends is in our intensive care unit right now. Youre always aware that your own parents could soon be patients here and then i got infected myself. It was scary, really scary. I had seen what covert can do, but i was lucky, i didnt get pneumonia and was back at work 2 weeks later. Our main problem is that people come in too late, many with very serious pneumonia. Some tell you they dont have money. Others dont believe covert even exists. They say its just the flu. This most definitely isnt the flu. My growth is the most precious thing right now is oxygen. You can see the patients hand stretching out for the masks. You can see how desperately they need it. You see how they come to life once they get it. Even trying to turn the dial up on their own. I go to bed, imagining what would happen if we ran out of oxygen supplies. Im sure it will happen eventually. So will we have to slam the door shut in patients or faces and tell them weve run out of money . And then my view, im joined now by correspondent Nick Connelly in kiev. Nick some very dramatic scenes that tell us how dramatic is the situation in hospitals across the country. Good morning record. What is extraordinary difficult. Weve seen cases here up to about 1314000 new cases every day. Thats double what it was just a month ago. And that hospital, even though maybe the conditions there could look basic to someone who is more used to hospital settings in western europe, north america, that is a pretty good, pretty well resourced hospital by the standards of provincial ukraine. This is really a country with huge discrepancies between the big cities and the smaller towns and villages. As we heard there from the doctor, oaks isnt a big problem with this is not a disease that doctors are able to treat right now. This is about keeping people going while their body deals with this viral infection. And that doctor told us that their hospital, their supplies of oxygen, they last thing for a cup. They have an extra supplies for a couple of hours. So if those supplies, if those trucks bring oxygen from the nearest big town, what is stop if there was cold weather and that breakdown they would really have to make choices about who would get about that . Just about that is of medical stuff. This is a country where doctors are not paid well, even by local standards. Thousands of doctors have left for neighboring countries and theyre really running out of people to look after all these people that doctrine or she is and you were just having to learn on the job while saving peoples lives, how to operate a ventilator. So this is really a search and it isnt looking good and that its getting more difficult as this winter season increases and date. And weve heard that some people dont even go to hospital because they may not have the money. How well does the Health System work in general . So in theory, people do get free medical practice and theyre expected to pay for drugs, pay for various materials, but this wasnt a system that was pretty clearly strong and well resourced at the best of times. So there was obviously going to be a huge challenge. Anyway, i think this is also a big problem of governance, isnt just about the ability of doctors without results to treat this disease. This is about our National Response in an Infectious Disease situation. At this present we seem to have had, or its really good 1st wave understanding the country didnt have the resources to treat, to track traces pukki effectively. He basic loads down this country for months at a time in the spring. The metro here was out of operation for weeks and shot. And basically the countries of the government decided that they cant afford that they dont have the money to give businesses and to give employees money to stay at home. And so we now have a situation where theres basically symbolic business in practice, lots of big cities outside of kiev have told the Central Government to get lost and basically continuing as usual. And lets people thinking about their business survival and bankruptcy rather than the actual infection numbers that are jumping up here. Very difficult winter in the weeks ahead. Yeah, very difficult situation indeed on an economy. Thanks very much. Right. Some sports now and in the bundesliga on sunday, mayans picked up their 1st win of the states and with a 31 victory over fellow strugglers, fribourg french strike. Was the hero for the away side, scoring all of their 3 goals. Maurits least, a struggling minds arrived in freiburg looking for a change in fortunes. Much would depend on the form of shaun felipe pate to the strikers. 4 goals in 7 games the only bright spot in a terrible start to the campaign. Metate of showed his worth with less than 2 minutes on the clock. The frenchman charging clear before slotting home, cooley, one nil to the visitors. But taitz was on hand again to make it 2 nil in the 34 minutes. Prior book keeper, florian miller, making it far too easy for the frenchman, but say to completed a stunning 1st half hat trick. 5 minutes later, the titanfall causing no problems for the red hot 23 year old got one back in the 2nd half prevention strike and mills pietersen the 4th and final goal scored at the busy end of the pitch 31. 00 its ended 3 goals from a tater, and a valuable 3 points for minds in the tennis rushes danielle medvedev has won the a. T. P. Finals in london after coming from behind to win a gripping match against u. S. Open champion, dominic tame medvedev, won 7 straight points in a 2nd set tie break to level up the match. He then held his nerve to win 64. 00 in the 3rd set to clinch the title. The russian follows up his victory earlier this month at the Paris Masters to take the biggest title of his career. He ends the season, ranked number 4 in the world. Youre watching the news. Heres a reminder of the top story were following for you. Train leaving hong kong prodemocracy activists have playdates guilty at their trial of the last years protests. Joshua long ivan, last month, i guess challenged all expect jail terms for inciting and organizing an on a private assembly. Charges related to a protest outside a place headquarters. Last night that youre up to that state. Shoot for business news. Wait, chris kyle. Back coming up. Next. Well have more headlines at the top of the hour and in the meantime theres always our web site talk. Tom, im rebecca races facing with under the sea or just above it, one who will be part of future Living Spaces and rising sea levels are threatening coastal areas come swimming, cease fire, tilted as the solution. What sounds like Science Fiction has long been reality. Waterworld in 45 minutes on d. W. Born of the morning. I cannot sleep because you know war isnt love. And those wars swollen loonies, lol good schools. Theres no news. No love for the work it doesnt work, gives freedom for the chancellor merkel storm the currents affordable and equitable access to covert vaccines for all people. Thats the pledge g. 20 leaders committed themselves to in their 1st ever Virtual Summit. But amid surging infection, numbers remain also coming protests over pork. Thousands of people in taiwan demonstrate against the governments decision to allow the import of what they think could be contaminated meats and all nonessential shops in france. A shop these days will in
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