Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us it was a rocky road to independence but today east timor marks 20 years since a un backed vote that ended a bloody decade long occupation by indonesia that vote on august 30th 1909 saw 80 percent of East Timorese supporting a split from indonesia the country had invaded east timor a former portuguese colony with a shared land order in 1905 and while people now possess Political Freedom it has not led necessarily to Economic Freedom about half of the countrys 1400000 people live in poverty and 40 percent are literate but before we get into that heres a look back at the country struggle for liberty. The people of east timor thus rejected the perspiration autonomy and expressed their wish to be the persis of transition towards independence thank you it was the moment that finally put east timor on the road to independence supporters celebrated across the territory the journey to independence have been long and brutal it began in 1
Has lived in poland for 5 years he actively supports german polish Economic Cooperation but he didnt expect this particular debate topic to resurface. I was surprised when i heard about polands demands for german reparations and i was seriously shocked when i saw that many of my friends young poles who dont sympathise with the government saying that they could understand why the government wants this. Why they feel that germany has not yet built sufficiently with what they did to poland. 50 times more sauce oldtown is a symbol of german guilt the city was completely destroyed during the 2nd world war and then rebuilt without any help from germany now after almost 80 years berlin is being handed the bill a Parliamentary Committee has been working on a draft for the government so they can finally put this topic to rest even though for decades they had already considered it closed. Doesnt like the fact were talking about reparations we understand that. But for us the ease and important to
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us it was a rocky road to independence but today east timor marks 20 years since a un backed vote that ended a bloody decade long occupation by indonesia that vote on aug 30th 1999 saw 80 percent of East Timorese supporting a split from indonesia the country had invaded east timor a former portuguese colony with a shared land order in 1905 and while people now possess Political Freedom it has not led necessarily to Economic Freedom about half of the countrys 1400000 people live in poverty and 40 percent are literate but before we get into that heres a look back at the country struggle for liberty. The people of east timor have thus rejected the perspiration autonomy and expressed their wish to be a persis of transition towards independence thank you it was the moment that finally put east timor on the road to independence supporters celebrated across the territory the journey to independence have been long and brutal it began in 1
Says that a legal challenge against the suspension of Britains Parliament by the Prime Minister will go ahead but not until next week opponents of Boris Johnson argue that there is not enough time to debate briggss raising the likelihood of the u. K. Leaving the European Union at the end of october without a deal across party group of m. P. s says the johnsons decision to suspend parliament for 5 weeks is a constitutional trajan a full hearing will begin at scotlands highest court next week. But he hasnt made any. Argument should be stopped here further. Morning here at the court of session before. Live now to westminster and central london. Can tell us more so leave lets just get this clear the judge hasnt thrown out this legal challenge completely. No it hasnt the Scottish Court case was really started by an appeal by those 74. 00 crossed party m. P. S. And p. Is to try and get an immediate suspension of Boris Johnsons decision to provoke parliament in short a suspension the suspensi
i m adrian finnegan. this is al jazeera alive from dough. hobb, also coming up ukraine s president followed him. his zalinski says that wash is offensive, has turned the eastern dawn bass region into hell. heavy summer rains hammer northeast in india, more than half a 1000000 people, the displaced plus a hero of east timor s independence has sworn in as president. and he s looking to forge close ties with china ah, over a week after our colleague shirley and elbow, our clay was killed by his worthy forces in the occupied westbank. new visit video is corroborating eye witness accounts. al jazeera has obtained footage showing the last moments before sure he was shot in the head. it also shows that one. no, there was no fighting at that time and that gunshots came from a position where is where the soldiers was station. oh so well, so up people are seen fleeing to the opposite side of the street towards an area where israeli officials originally claimed that the shooting came fr