Turning point in this stand off. The Hong Kong Government has been forced to concede that its controversial extradition bill has prompted ill will and division. And the announcement came that it would be shelved, at least for the time being. I now announced that the government has decided to disband to suspend the legislative amendment. We start communication with all sectors of society, do more exploration work and listen to different views. A vast array of opposition groups means the extradition bill means facing mainline chinese courts controlled by the communist party, which cant guarantee a fair trial, and they say carrie lam ultimately still it introduced. Translation hong kong people wont be cheated by the temporary suspension and carrie lams comments only make us more angry. The city enjoys freedoms guaranteed when the former british colony was handed back to china for the up the key pa rt back to china for the up the key part of that is having an independent judiciary, part of
Talks to George Alagiah in talking books, in half an hour on bbc news. Good afernoon. Following huge protests, the leader of hong kong has suspended plans to introduce a new law that would allow extraditions to mainland china. The proposals have prompted big demonstrations, including one last sunday where organisers said more than a Million People took part. Our china correspondent Stephen Mcdonell reports from hong kong. And a warning, the report contains some flashing images. The large demonstrations just days ago turned into running street battles with the police. It would prove the turning point in this stand off. The Hong Kong Government has been forced to concede that its controversial extradition bill has prompted ill will and division here. And the announcement came that it would be shelved, at least for the time being. I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise, restart communication with all sectors of society, do more explana
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Ceasefire talks in cairo. The good news is that they are happening and that five nations, orfive parties, are at least all there in cairo. So thats hamas, israel, the us, qatar and egypt. The not so good news is that israel has only sent a fairly low level team theyre not there to negotiate, theyre there to study what hope there is of trying to bridge the gap between what is acceptable to israel and what is acceptable to hamas, and that gap is still pretty wide. The main Sticking Point, as my colleague yolande referred to there, is over how this ends. So the fundamentals of the deal are largely intact, theyre largely agreed. They can agree this that it will start with a 42 day period of calm, a truce essentially, during which hamas will give up 33 hostages. Theres a bit of dispute about whether they would be alive or dead, but 33 hostages. In return, a much larger number of Palestinians Prisoners would be released from israeli jails and palestinians who had been moved south into rafah