To partake. And violence mars ivory coast president ial election the incumbent president is hoping to secure a 3rd term of the opposition says thats unconstitutional well get the latest from our correspondent on the ground. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the Program French police say theyve arrested a suspect over the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest in the Southern City of leone the priest was gunned down as he closed his church and is in a Critical Condition just 2 days earlier a suspected islam ist militant killed 3 people in a Catholic Church in the city of nice. The priest most just closing up this Greek Orthodox church late saturday afternoon when he was shot twice. Police kept the area fenced off warning the public to stay away prosecutors have opened an investigation into attempted murder. At this stage we dont know what the motive is behind the attack no line of inquiry is preferred all ruled out so i want comment on the target of what sort of attack this is. We dont know ye
On saturday what we know is that the orthodox priest was severely injured he is still in a very Critical Condition but he is a life and also another interesting fact came up an orthodox another orthodox priest who actually knows the person who was attacked told french media that the reason for the attack might be a personal one because there has been a fight going on over years between a church goer and this orthodox priest so this actually might be the reason but prosecutors say theyre still looking in all its all direction so its not clear yet what the motive off this attack is yeah as you say not clear but it does come at a time after a string of attacks in france how people how worried are people in france about these attacks. Wary worried i mean we been seeing this attack here in news just on on thursday in the church you can just see behind me theyre not sure damn bus really here in nice and weve been talking to too many different people over the last couple of days and the react
Back against president my calls comments about islam. In paris french m. P. s stand for moments of silence in honor of the victims. Also ahead strict restrictions are imposed across europe as the surge in the coronavirus impacts life from the continents. And its all in all messages on target for barcelona in the European Champions League a day after the Club President resigned messi restored order on the pitch for the 2 in a win against juventus. But we begin with breaking news out of france 3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured the attacker was wounded by police and is in custody in hospital where frances answer terrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the mayor of me says it was. A terrorist attack in cold for a crackdown on what he describes as islamofascism. But we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attac
Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the Catholic Church has renewed a deal it made 2 years ago with china which is an officially atheist communist state concerning bishops their agreement now gives the pope a final say over the appointment of them but beijing is the one who gets to come up with the choices chinese authorities had previously selected bishops without the say of the vatican and a division formed between state sanctioned clergy and underground bishops who operated outside state control the former bishop of Hong Kong Cardinal joseph dan has spoken up about this a prodemocratic he has expressed concern over the churchs engagement with china heres the interview with cardinal to china and the facts occurred recently renewed a secretive agreement signed 2 years ago it allows both beijing. And the holy see a say in appointing push ups in china from Hong Kong Bishop Cardinal Joseph santa q. C. Secretary of state cardinal pyra lynn of betraying the 12000000
A color think that the sea is no longer there it is like affecting everybody everybodys in magnified because they could have been anybody trying to get a different neighborhood where its less prominent me let me through the situation in hand not a lot different pennsylvania governor tom wilson owns the deployment of several 100 National Guard troops to philadelphia as the city braces for further unrest. We are now joined by Joseph Hutchinson a u. S. Civil rights a lawyer based in berlin mr hutchinson it is another very upsetting incident shot in front of his mother while shes trying to deescalate the situation now troops are being sent how are people reacting. I mean the thing to keep in mind is that this is not an isolated incident so this is happening currently and philadelphia theres a recent shooting as well in illinois of a 19 year old black man this is just he was killed in front of his. Mother of his child this is to routine for us at this point and i think people are very frust