Im melissa chan welcome to news asia tensions between china and taiwan have hit a high not seen in years most recently chinese warplanes crossed to the median line the Narrow Strait separating the 2 sides over the past week thats according to taiwans president haiyan one the United States plays a role in all this says taiwans main supporter the trumpet administration plans to sell taiwan billions of dollars in weapons from missiles to Surveillance Drones in order to shore up its defenses against any potential attack by beijing taiwan is a democracy with a separate government but president xi jinping considers it a part of his peoples republic of china. Over ousting reception for taiwans leader as she meets air force offices at one of the territories most important to military bases. President sighing when he was there to deliver a special message following a spike in tensions between time china so were going off as the commander in chief of our National Armed forces i want to assure th
He is definitely no longer this countrys president and that as a result the countrys Security Services were under no obligation to follow his orders tonight were expecting big protests here in minsk the police has closed down effectively the city lots of police and police vans on the streets ready to make arrests people being sent home early from work in the expectation that the police will need to get their streets emptied to deal with protesters and journalists have been arrested doing their jobs out in the streets of mints today so really a sense that events are accelerating here and its now in the 30 seconds that we have together is this going to galvanize demonstrators or is this really such a big blow to their efforts. I think it will defeat galvanize their efforts this is how scared this regime is how its feeling the pressure that it needs to basically do this in private without any real legitimacy or guests on hand to see whats going on so i think if anything this will bring mo
She was known for her black clothes and incredible voice beauty at the french singer and cultural icon dies at the age of 93. 00. Im Rebecca Richards welcome to the Program Police in the u. S. Say 2 officers have been shot and wounded during Racial Justice protests in the city of louisville demonstrations erupted across the country after it was announced that police would face no charges for killing black women Brianna Tyler in march the mayor of louisville taylors hometown has declared a curfew for the next 3 nights it was shot dead when police raided her apartment on a socalled no. No knock warrant one officer has been charged but only with endangering tylers neighborhoods not with her murder and killing was one of several deaths of black people at the hands of police that set off months of anti racism protests in the united states. Correspondent Stefan Simons is standing by for us in louisville kentucky stefan protests are being held in cities across the u. S. But your entire as hom
The. Demonstrations have been held across cities including new york chicago and atlanta as protesters demand justice for what they call on warranted to police violence. That we want to. Stephanie months isnt Briana Taylors hometown of louisville kentucky we asked him why no Police Officers have been charged over her killing excellent question and i dont have an easy or simple answer for you because i dont know. Your experts dont know the attorney of the Taylor Family it doesnt really know and had to succumb to saying like this is a total disgrace this decision the attorney general of the state kentucky has said he followed the law the state law and there was no room and no space allowing him to charge any of those officers directly and that is key here directly to the death of Briona Taylor thats why we already have a charge off and danger meant in the 1st degree and 3 counts of this for one officer the other 2 werent even charged it is literally no chacha cant see any of the Law Enfor
Heavy rain has begun filling its controversial blue nile as the government continues to negotiate with its neighbors egypt and sudan. The movie earthlings 2005 everyone should watch and the bizarre endorsement from ukraines president that helped to end the hostage situation. Dozens of israelis have been protesting in west jerusalem calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down 34 people have been arrested outside Parliament Netanyahu has come under growing criticism for staying in office while facing trial on corruption charges is also being accused of mismanaging the pandemic and a deepening economic crisis and a force that has more from tel aviv. Benjamin netanyahu is where the protest be. Socalled black flag activists have waged a years Long Campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government. Netanyahu has admitted to r