Im michael okun welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protests against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigner protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protesters have been held across since june last year. And correspondent phebe kong joins us now from hong kong by phone phebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the press boning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Yeah i have been writing that sos has all i said all afternoon in hong kong today and all this week with her protests so kind of like give me back my clothes and i want to kind of like those guys on the street so today i originally on this is just an election day one of the most important election in a city. Like this and so it acts like a st
The way they want to this specific case under touches off the National Security office later on they found another light opened is more appropriate charges but anyway critics say is this a pretty much 0 what they see as speech crimes like the i thought you wanted us to talk at the opposition fighters t. V. We have about 15 or 20 seconds besides the rest that. We have seen at this point is that been any of the reaction from hong kong authorities. What im asking i am the act that they sent to the wealthy to lay off the folks knowing that they stop its not going this is not politically motivated it is this but i think a Public Health and court like we have seen day rally today out in the latest and you know a little bit chaos so we will expect that all sorts of welcome damage but thats not the rally held today as they stand on its own authorized becoming much appreciated. Lets highlight some other stories making news around the world at this hour people have been gathering in the belushi
Correspondent phoebe kong on the scene there to explain what the protesters have been calling for them like in months is that they dont want protests against the decision of the government to postpone the last state election for a year so the governance of this is for the sake of Public Health reasons and also to help to contain the coronavirus endemic but this is and the reason seen as an excuse by the protesters and police not to see campaign is they have a message and we have out this show so they go out today to protest against it and also from that many of them also wanted it to want to express the end gets worse the newly in finance have National Security always has already been imposed for what it too much so on is this like one of the reason they want why they come up today to defy the ban on the police and also to your chest opens up like what has been now banned by dell for it. To become their. Speaking earlier lets have a look now at some of the other stories making news aro
Confronts a surge in teen pregnancies linked to cope with 19 School Closures young girl whos there now being shot by her family after becoming. Spicer welcome to the program and we start where protesters have been staging a massive rally in the capital minsk at least 100 people have been arrested tens of thousands defied a government warning to return to the streets for the 4th sunday in a row they demanded that president Alexander Lukashenko step down following last months disputed election if the tarion leader who has ruled the country for 26 years claimed action with 80 percent of the vote thousands have been detained and several killed in the unrest that followed the election. And lets cross straight to our correspondent Nick Connelly on the line nic another sunday of mass protest how was the mood today. Well this was an extraordinary day of protests seen in the last few weeks of people hundreds of thousands despite the filthy whether it was raining most of the people stayed and th
Allies will enter technical talks to establish a plan to avoid any such action Stephanie Decker has more now from istanbul. That announcement by nato secretary general came shortly after a Conference Call a video call that was held with the turkish president also the foreign minister here and Senior Security officials with the german chancellor Angela Merkel of course germany has been key in trying to mediate between the 2 sides trying to get the 2 sides to start negotiations what you have now according to u. N. Stoltenberg as you said an announcement saying that the 2 sides have agreed to start technical talks this has to do with a de confliction line if you will when it comes to their military assets in the Eastern Mediterranean because the sea is so heavily heavily militarized at the moment you have turkey continuing life fire exercises until september the 12th you have greeks military fleet you have other countries with the minute you fleet there as well so the potential for any ac