the institution was one of more than 130 compulsory boarding schools funded by the canadian government and run by religious authorities during the 19th and 20th centuries, with the aim of assimilating indigeous youth. hong kong s pro democracy newspaper apple daily has published its final edition, with an editorial saying it was the victim of tyranny. it s been forced to close because the authorities froze its bank accounts, accusing it of breaking a national security law. there were large queues, as people across hong kong raced to buy their last copy. tonight, us presidentjoe biden said it was a sign of intensifying repression by china. 0ur correspondent danny vincent reports. in the early hours of the morning, hong kong residents lined up to buy the final edition of apple daily. the newspaper had come to represent hong kong s opposition. it came to represent hong kong s freedom.
our science correspondent, pallab ghosh, reports. the night sky is littered with stars, but when did they first begin to shine? discovering when this critical moment known as the cosmic dawn began, has been this man s life s work, and now he has the answer. the holy grail has been to look back far enough that you would see the very first generation of stars and galaxies. and we ve determined their ages, and that gives us the first convincing evidence of when the universe was first bathed in starlight. because we are ourselves the product of stellar evolution, in some sense, we re looking at our own origins. using telescopes from across the world, the team analysed some of the most far away galaxies so distant, they re just a few pixels on the computer screen. they re also among the earliest, seen not long after the creation of the universe. by working out their age, the team calculated the start of the cosmic dawn, when the first stars began to shine.
learning in maths than children in the south west. huge disparities which ministers are going to have to address. all of this will increase pressure for them to add to the 3.1 billion they have already promised. branwen, thank you. thousands of police have been patrolling the streets of hong kong to stop people commemorating the anniversary of the 1989 massacre in tiananmen square in beijing. the authorities have banned vigils, citing coronavirus restrictions, and areas where people usually gather have been closed off, as danny vincent reports. june 4th was once a day hong kongers dared not to forget. victoria park once looked like this on the anniversary of the deadly crackdown. this is victoria park onjune 4th 2021. this former british colony is the only place on chinese soil that officially marks
faisal islam, at the g7 meeting in london. thousands of police have been patrolling the streets of hong kong to stop people commemorating the anniversary of the 1989 massacre in tiananmen square in beijing. the authorities have banned vigils, citing coronavirus restrictions and areas where people usually gather have been closed off. from hong kong, danny vincent reports. june 4th was once a day hong kongers dared not to forget. victoria park once looked like this on the anniversary of the deadly crackdown. this is victoria park onjune 4th 2021. this former british colony is the only place on chinese soil that officially marks the tiananmen square crackdown. this year, the authorities threatened to imprison