Seas offering hope for greece dying elsewhere in the world. Prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an unprecedented and symbolic victory in District Council elections voters turned out in record numbers after almost 6 months of protests that have cost the territories worst political crisis in decades well go live to sock cock in hong kong in just a few minutes 1st this report from scott. In a sweeping victory prodemocracy candidates made huge gains in hong kongs District Council elections gaining control from pro beijing parties. The voters sending a clear message of the 1st polling since the protest movement began. Even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots after nearly 6 months of at times violent demonstrations the polling was seen as a way for voters to officially take sides in this deeply divided city
Are selected to stand on Election Committee which plays a crucial part in voting for hong kong next later now that election will be in 2020 kerry lamb is very unpopular at the moment but certainly if the prodemocracy groups in the prodemocracy parties have the majority in these district elections you could assume that a large part of those 117. 00 District Council selected will be from outside of politics leaked classified documents from chinas government have revealed new details about the mass detention of ethnic minorities muslim way gores Rights Groups estimate that more than a 1000000 people have been locked up in camps in the shin jiang region the reporting clues Intelligence Briefings that describe how police use a data system based around Artificial Intelligence to select who ought to be detained Arsalan Iftikhar is a human rights lawyer he says despite chinas denials the documents confirm what many have suspected about the camps. Its a completely orwellian system of ethnic cle
And with his country in the grip of massive protests colombias president begins what hes calling a National Dialogue. The big. Thank you for joining us prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an unprecedented and symbolic victory in District Council elections voters turned out in record numbers after almost 6 months of protests that have cause a territorys worst political crisis in decades live to soft rock in hong kong in just a moment but 1st this report from scott hyde. In a sweeping victory prodemocracy candidates made huge gains in hong kongs District Council elections gaining control from pro beijing parties. The voters sending a clear message in the 1st polling since the protest movement began. Even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots after nearly 6 months of at times violent demonstrations the pol
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