And tiny manuscript but a big price. One of the first works by Charlotte Bronte is sold for 500,000. Voiceover live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in the morning here in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in hong kong, where activists remain under siege inside the polytechnic university. But around 100 protestors including 50 minors have been led from the buildings as part of a deal negotiated by a group of school head teachers. Theres been more violence as police try to keep the campaigners trapped inside. Outside the university, protesters have tried to break the police lines while police have responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. 0ur correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes has the latest. For a few minutes today, it looked like the siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University might end peacefully. The young protesters began streaming down the stairway, that on sunday was set aflame to block the police from storming
Neither greece nor italy can accommodatery rifing on their borders. We have discuss the crisis and a change in the categories. We must insure they have distributed fairly across the e. U. Unfortunately, were very far from that goal. With criticism of the e. U. Only mounting and more refugees arriving every day, it seems that its near impossible situation is nowhere close to being over. Al jazeera. The first ships filled with almost 4,000 refugees from the greek island of lesbos has reached the mainland more than 20,000 people had been stranded on the island. Most coming from syria trying to make it to e. U. Countries. Many were living on the streets. Greek officials feared that the situation was on the verge of an explosion. Germany today said that it is prepared to take in 500,000 refugees every year for the next several years. This year alone as i mentioned the country is expecting to take in 800,000. That could cost the government more than 10 billion. The nations generosity is not
Year after strikes, a blunt assessment from the general. Hes one of the strongest leaders. Chinese president xi jinping arrives in the u. S. , meeting with leaders in the west who are wary about chinese commercial hacking. Canvas masters. Such an exhibition is fascinating, you can experience things by looking, and you can learn a lot. Vincent van go, a 19th century painting, never crossing paths in life, but how an exhibition explores their shared visions. Good evening, im antonio mora, this is Al Jazeera America. We begin with the arrive of pope francis in the capital. The pope touches down at st andrews this afternoon to be greeted by president obama and the first family. Joe biden, and u. S. Bishops. On thursday hell address a joint session of congress. Hell meet with the president at the white house tomorrow, before a prayer. Hell end the day by holding the first canonization mass on u. S. Soil in front of 25,000. Mike viqueira joins us at the white house. What was the atmosphere l
Good morning. Welcome back to the washington journal. Good morning. Welcome to the washington journal. We want to hear from you. Send us a tweet. Or go to facebook,. Com. Send an email. At the white house before going to new york for meetings at the United Nations, heres what he had to say about the air strikes on monday. Last night on my orders, Americas Armed forces began strikes against targets in syria. Today the American People give thanks for the Extraordinary Service of the men and women indown form including the pilots with the courage and professionlism we come to expect from the finest military the world has ever known. Earlier i outlined our strategy i made it clear that as part of this campaign, the United States would take action against targets in iraq and syria so these terrorists could not find a safe haven anywhere. Also made clear america would act as part of a broad coalition. We were joined in this action by our friends and partners saudi arabia, United Arab Emirate
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