Indonesia over a controversial draft criminal code which could ban extramarital relations and make it illegal to insult the president or hear mallard reports from jakarta. Students marching in indonesias capital and several other cities on tuesday calling on the government to hold controversial legislation being debated in Parliament Last week the government passed a law to amend the power of the Corruption Eradication commission this Week Parliament planned to make changes to a pending criminal code bill which could discriminate against religious minorities outlaw sex outside marriage ballot borson and make it illegal to insult the president but the outcry by protesters forced a delay. Of. Students talk with Police Outside parliament in Jakarta Security forces responded with tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds. There are so many problems weakening of the Anticorruption Commission and then rushing to pass the criminal code they want to pass other bills to before the Parlia
Company is rushing to restore as the u. S. Continues to build the case against iran ohanley warned against any attack saying we. Will quickly follow. The attacks on Saudi Oil Installations threatened to be a game changer and could lead to a major confrontation but the e. U. Russia china and some countries in the middle east say the crisis should be solved through dialogue and that would only further destabilize the region. New york. Now israels president has asked long time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to form a new government following last weeks deadlocked election doesnt yell he still has no clear path to a 5th term after emerging from the september 17th ballot without a parliamentary majority he now has 28. 00 days to cobble together a Coalition Force that reports from western. Israels president let out the caretaker Prime Minister to announce a result hed been trying to avoid rivlin wanted Benjamin Netanyahu to form a National Unity government with his main rival benny
The answer the sense of democracy unraveling the whole thing is a horror show barnsley aljazeera london. Time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back down but not quite out israels Prime Minister gets another shot at staying in power despite failing to win outright in last weeks election. And as the world marks the International Day of the total elimination of Nuclear Weapons we ask if a new arms race has begun on the spend. More hot sunshine across the middle east in fact some rain recently even thats in the process of clearing away we got some wet weather having said that up towards the black sea in this band of clouds stretching out to keep pushing up towards northern parts of the caspian could see a little bit that weather around the caucasus sent 20. Sunshine 34 degrees in karate so the numbers around baghdad were 43 degrees here still 2 or 3 degrees above the seasonal average and more of the say as we go on through friday and almost services pretty much being resum
A russian opposition politician is arrested as protests flare up again in moscow thousands have been taking to the streets in the past month demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for city council. Im rebecca riches welcome to the program their brain renewed clashes in hong kong between police and prodemocracy activists placed fired tear gas at protesters who are holding an authorized demonstrations in 2 locations its the 10th straight weekend of protests that were triggered by opposition to a proposed law that would have allowed extradition from hong kong to Mainland China activists held a number of other protests earlier in the day that remained peaceful including a sit in at hong kong airport. At the airport protesters assembled for a 2nd day to greet passengers arriving in the city drawing international attend. To their cause saturday morning also saw a rather tranquil rally in support of the prodemocracy movement it brought together families demanding a stable and
Opposition candidates be allowed to run for city council. And devastation in china as time from the key member of the countrys coastline placed 18 people have been killed and more than a 1000000 painful to flee their heart. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program disgraced us financier jeffrey abstain has been found dead in his new york jail cell abstains thought to have killed himself despite being on suicide watch he was a convicted sex offender who was rearrested last month abstain was facing sex trafficking charges and accusations he abused dozens of teenage girls he denied the charges and faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Im joined now by correspondent foley is from washington public what are authorities saying about it. Hi rebecca well the latest that we have here is that the story broke here in the United States just a few hours ago at by several media sources saying. Jeffrey epstein was taken from the facility at the jail in manhattan to a hospital there where he w