As japans Emperor Naruhito is enthroned this week, we look at the role of the empress masako. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7am in hong kong, where the working week is just getting under way. It follows another weekend of mass protests. Organisers say as many as 350,000 people took part in the demonstrations, which were held without official permission. Police fired teargas and water canon, to try to clear the streets. Nick beake reports from the protests in hong kong. They were told they werent allowed to march today. They were threatened with prison if they wore a mask. And they were warned by chinas leader there would be broken bones for those who try to break up his country. But this is a Pro Democracy Movement that believes the world is on its side and its not backing down. We are here to fight for freedom and we are not scared about the Chinese Communist party. We want our freedom and human rights. But once again, peaceful protest gave way to petrol b
T Community Live in perpetual fear. There are as many different kinds of intimacy there are people every relationship is unique there are men who love women women who love women people who love both men and women and so on. And yet being homosexual bisexual or transgender is highly discriminated against or even outlawed in 70 countries across the world. In 11 countries in africa the Arabian Peninsula and the middle east homosexuality is even an offense punishable by death. Homo sexual acts are commonly defined as obscene or unnatural and often described as sodomy words like that are also used in uganda and some politicians there have called for the introduction of the Death Penalty. Daybreak income paula and for the activists from freedom and roam uganda it will be another day fighting discrimination against lesbian gay and trans people gloria the programs officer could potentially face imprisonment or even execution the government has plans to reintroduce legislation colloquially call
Has been stripped of his british citizenship and this weeks hardtalk will be speaking to climate scientist tim flannery, thats in half an hour. The Cabinet Office minister, michael gove, has said very significant steps have been taken in the past three weeks to prepare for a no deal brexit. He was responding to leaked government documents that warn of food and medicine shortages if the uk leaves without an agreement. Mr gove the minister in charge for preparations for a no deal brexit said the government plans, known as 0peration yellowhammer is for a worst case scenario, and the government has taken very significant steps in the last three weeks to accelerate brexit planning. 0ur Political Correspondent mark lobel reports. Borisjohnson has been getting his message out on law and order, the nhs and no deal preparations. This week he will enter the International Stage meeting europes top two power brokers, but without a deal in sight. He wants them to know parliament wont stop brexit an
Its great to have you with us on the show. Its changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis. Thats not made in africa but its already hits in the continental my colleague kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. Its a widely held belief here in africa that Climate Change is a problem for the rich its also a prize and the fridays for future protests badly gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participated in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that its poor an ordinary africans will most affected by the impact of Climate Change here in kenya had who are running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities. As desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as this one sproutin
Juneau its great to have you with us on the show. Its changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis its a catastrophe thats not made in africa but its already hits in the continental michael kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. Its a widely held belief here in africa about Climate Change is a problem for the rich its also a prize in the fridays for future protests barely gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participating in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that its poor an ordinary africans were most affected by the impact of Climate Change here in kenya had a running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities as. Desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as th