Spring grand sumo tournament about to begin we take a look at what other sports up and coming restless. People in crimea are divided on ethnic lines over a poll about the regions future mac comes as Russian Forces have taken effective control of the peninsula despite international protests crabby as Regional Parliament on thursday voted overwhelmingly to become part of russia. The regions government has said mark sixteen as the date for a referendum asking people whether they want to leave ukraine and whether they want to join russia. The party. It has made a historic decision to join russia. Ethnic russians make up more than sixty percent of the peninsulas population they welcome the referendum the option to put too much and youll come for us to move and become part of russia. The crimean touch ours support the interim government and key as they say del boycott the vote. But yesterday the king. Because christ that is acting as a means of hours. Here we have to make the payments ukrain
And a senior official in Chinas Communist Party says there will be no leniency for terrorists after a stabbing spree last week at a Railway Station. The u. N. Security council has held an emergency meeting to discuss the ukrainian crisis. It remains sharply divided over the crimean governments plan to secede from ukraine. The meeting came after local government officials announced plans to hold a referendum on secession from ukraine. It set the poll for march 16th. Russian forces have effectively taken control of ukraines autonomous republic of crimea. U. N. Deputy secretary jan eleison joined from ukraine. He had called for meaningful dialogue among all key parties to help ease the crisis. After the meeting britains u. N. Ambassador expressed strong concern. Clearly, such a referendum would be illegal under article 73 of the ukrainian constitution, and it would also be deeply destabilizing. But russias u. N. Envoy rejected the concerns. They made this decision, and, of course, our aut
A record good on say could have turned by a landslide but her rivals say her victory was a full. Glass as we get comes to an end we take a look back at the stories of two thousand and eighteen covered by our correspondents around the globe. Im christine one girl welcome to the program. Its already too many nineteen for people in the pacific nation of samoa and elsewhere in the world the countdown to the new year is running just five hours to go in japan with buddhist temples and shinto shrine like this one are gearing up to receive millions of visitors and final preparations are under way in new york where the famous crystal ball is set to drop in nineteen hours well be bringing you new years updates from around the globe as people say goodbye to the eighteen and hello to twenty one thousand. To west africa now and a tense wait for people in the democratic republic of congo as votes are counted following sundays president ial election millions cost their ballots in the land while bush
A fraud. And people in the democratic republic of congo await the outcome of sundays netball president ial election as the ballots are counted tensions remain high following allegations of widespread voting irregularities. Im christine one go welcome to the program. People in new zealand are ringing in the new year these are live pictures from oakland the first major city in the world to welcome twenty nine thousand. I. Thought. Id next to welcome the new year is new zealands neighbor all straight well be bringing you pictures from sydney and new years updates from around the globe as people say goodbye sweet eighteen and hello twenty ninety. Abunimah dishes Prime Minister shake has seen a has secured a third term in office ofter a landslide victory in the countrys divisive National Elections the Electoral Commission says the scene this Coalition Won two hundred eighty eight out of three hundred seats in parliament but opposition members have rejected the results as richt amid widespre
According to your analysis will not have that opportunity to bring the right wing positions to the table in brussels not when it comes to the youve been part of the youve been parliament is overwhelmingly pro european prodemocratic even the shifts within countries like germany the votes did not go to the extreme right they have been dispersed amongst the democratic parties so and also in other countries i mean whats so the nice one in italy it was something that we have expected its too bad its a form of on us you know became the Largest Party in france actually yeah exactly but we do not expect such a big block as they would like to be the make them say a larger than the actually are ok the greens were the big winner here in germany theyve doubled their their results theyre now bigger in the European Parliament than the social democrats just behind the c. D. U. Do you see them being able to as we just heard from their Live Press Conference affects Climate Change that is their big issu