After a week of military operations targeting kurdish forces. France is accused of consistently discriminating against black people as calls for reform grow. And army weddings with the sports news as the main d. X. Corruption trial draws to a close in paris the former head of world authentic faces 4 years in prison if found guilty of taking bribes to cover up question doping but his lawyer says that would be inhumane and cruel. Would begin in the United States where President Donald Trump has attacked the highest court in the country accusing it of releasing horrible and politically charged decisions the outburst came on twitter after the u. S. Supreme court blocks trumps efforts to end deferred action for childhood arrivals daca is an a bomb era program that rouse hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to live and work legally or truck derided the ruling as quote shotgun blasts in the face of people that are proud to call themselves republi
Ports of russians from the taliban strikes on u. S. Soldiers in afghanistan. And egypt says its dispute with ethiopia over its megaton project on the nile could lead to conflict if the u. N. Fails to intervene. But into the program chinas top legislative body has unanimously approved a National Security law for the territory that may crush Political Freedoms its the most far reaching development in hong kongs history ever since it was handed over to china in 1997 acts of subversion could now face a maximum sentence of life in jail critics say itll be used to stamp out all forms of dissent and it comes after months of mass unrest sparked by fears of chinas tightening grip on hong kong the legislation aims to cement beijings control over the semi autonomous territory and reshape the future of one of the worlds major sign. And szell centers adrian brown is standing by for us with reaction out of hong kong the 1st us cross over to beijing where katrina new is waiting for us in katrina real
Deng xiaopings former translators and director of the China National association of International Studies victor gal thanks so much for coming back on do you not believe your phone former colonial masters britain have the right to criticize human rights in china i think britain has the right to do whatever it wants by a need to really consider whats the impact on the fundamental interest of the british people and if what he comments on constitutes an interference in channels Domestic Affairs then definitely there will be dire consequences of these are arguably empty threats and youre echoing there what the ambassador said that there might be consequences even when nato destroyed the Chinese Embassy in yugoslavia china said there would be consequences china never does anything except some harsh words briefly and then are probably retire what what is chinas position going to be as sanctions are applied as individual sanctions may be applied by the British Foreign office and of course as
And we visit a town in britain where work is becoming increasingly scarce as promised johnson lays out his plan to rescue the economy. About china is about to impose a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised to a one country 2 system policy is now being signed by president xi jinping and will be enforced in the coming hours critics say the legislation erodes hong kongs freedoms a german brown has this. It normally takes a year for Chinas Parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the countrys most powerful political body the Standing Committee of the National Peoples congress in Hong Kong China supporters were also celebrating before the news that even being confirmed. A contentious measure that spits it he divided the city was once more defended by its chief executive the legislation oppose imposing legal principles such as presumption of innocence an
Going on the ground social media editor foreign element joined in that the Virtual Press briefing on the National Security law in the Chinese Embassy in london he asked about the apparent mismatch in priorities when it came to the birth johnson governments bait of passports for 3000000 chinese citizens the British Government of course is looking to give sets and ship to millions of hong kong is to escape chinese rule of course hong kong being a former british colony so why do you think it is that the u. K. Is so willing to give citizenship to hong kong as but not other citizens of former u. K. Colonies such as maybe iraq which of course suffered an illegal war in 2003 i think some of the politicians. Still. Very strong colonial mindset. If they were to recognize that. Is no more i mean it is well known who. Has returned to china. Long since for the past 23 years so thats their problem so thats why they have its a passion they have this grown man site is still regard hong kong as and it