Operators say its due to the malicious vandalism by protesters demonstrators have remained defiant against a new ban on facemasks chief executive carol lam and go take colonial era law to enforce the ban and gain greater powers to clamp down on protests got higher reports now from hong kong. Placemats have become one of the main symbols of the protester movement here in hong kong theyre also a way to hide identities from surveillance camera now its illegal for protesters to cover their faces. Their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. Their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing. Chief executive kerry lam has turned to a British Colonial era emergency law not you since riots in 1967 anyone who wears a mask could face up to a year in jail and a 3 1000. 00 fine h
Will enable it to funnel much of that gas into the southeast European Gas Network the u. S. Sees that very much as part of its strategic relationship with greece in addition to the defense arrangement John Psaropoulos in athens thank you very much. Still ahead on aljazeera as a 1st time voter registrations we meet the young people who could sway a 2nd brets that referendum. Beast with a great burden the rhino born to help save his species. Head of the us and still make conditions across the southeast of europe the greek on into catalonia yet again as seen some heavy downpours causing some flooding this is that system is on its way now tools the black sea training down into northern sections of turkey thats where we can see if you will find some heaviest spiles of rain its ushering in some corner as well but youll see up in sioux moscow western russia of russia going to Southern Africa so not too cold and then Central Europe all this rain you can see here this is actually still the remn
U. S. Diplomats and trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani continuing to pressure ukraine to draft a statement announcing an investigation but none was released then in late august the ukrainians learned of trumps decision to withhold nearly 400000000. 00 in u. S. Military assistance the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine bill taylor appeared incredulous texting i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a Political Campaign the response came from ordered sunland a wealthy hotelier and trump donor who was appointed ambassador to the e. U. I believe you are incorrect about President Trump intentions he writes the president has been Crystal Clear no quid pro quos of any kind there is no bro whoa that was exactly what i saw at that dollar by that that text defending trump came joe. Just as the u. S. Media was catching wind of a whistleblower report accusing trump of wrongdoing in his call with the ukrainian president thats what launched the impeachment inquiry now targeting
Subcommittee had in arraigning todays hearing arranging todays hearing. I. C. E. Declined to sit on the same panel with knack mote toe nakamoto, the contractor it chose. The departments lack of cooperation makes it more challenging for congress to do its job. At a meeting with dhs leaders, its important to the subcommittee to bring everyones voices together. Thats how we can best identify challenges and find ways to solve them. This issue is particularly important to me as two of i. C. E. s facilities detain upwards of 1300 migrants from in my home district. I visited these facilities, and i have concerns about some of the conditions of confinement. And im not alone in having these concerns. Dhss own office of Inspector General last year found these processes for oversight and con finement were insufficient to stay compliance with i. C. E. s own standards. It might be that inspectors are set up to fail. For example, i. C. E. Has a contractor who is responsible for evaluating compliance
Hello and welcome to world news today. The Us Democratic president ial contender, joe biden, has accused donald trump of an overwhelming abuse of power. It follows reports he tried to pressure ukraine into opening a corruption investigation against mr biden and his son. President trump has not denied the reports claming it doesnt matter what i discuss. This is what mr biden had to say about the affair a few moments ago. Know trump t investigated. I know trump deserves to be investigated. He has violated every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader . Trying to intimidate a foreign leader, if thats what happened. That is what appears what happened. That is what appears what happened. You should be looking at trump. Trump is doing this because he knows i will beat him like a drum, and theres usually an abuse of power in every element of the presidency to try to do something smear me. David willisjoins me now from wash