China claims nearly the entire area but thats disputed by several other South East Asian countries when hayward or some bangkok. In several areas of the South China Sea islands at holes in reefs have been transformed china claims almost the entire area and for years has been militarizing the islands constructing remote outposts taiwan also claims parts of the South China Sea along with several southeast Asian Countries including vietnam which is mounted the strongest challenge to beijing last month a vietnamese Prime Minister opened the latest Southeast Asian Leaders Summit with a strong statement on the issue without mentioning china. While the entire world is mobilizing its full force to fight against the pandemic responsible and violations of International Laws are still taking place affecting the environment of security and stability in several regions including ours the statement from u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o came a year after the Permanent Court of arbitration in th
By the u. S. And they said at the time of Economic Hardship in syria it was not the time to pursue those sanctions that language didnt get into get into the final version of the resolution although russia wanted it in there and thats why russia and china abstained theres been a high turnout in hong kong for primary polls that are being held by prodemocracy parties these will decide candidates for the Legislative Council elections in september that vote will be the 1st since the imposition of a new security rule by beijing Hong Kong Government minister has warned that those involved may be committing an offense under the new law speaking to aljazeera prodemocracy candidate just how long said every vote cost is a message to beijing. The race of think this qualified well being sent out from the bailouts in official election we still realize that the primary election is important and every boat show at this content of beijing and what no trust to the companys reach him after the implementa
A statement adam schiff called it selfserving and destructive to the countrys democracy he went on to say that commuting the sentence of roger stone a crony who lied and obstructed our investigation to protect trump himself is among the most offensive to the rule of law and the principles of justice i spoke earlier to our correspondent alan fischer for more. The white house in a statement just issued that roger stone is a victim of the russian hoax which is being perpetrated by the left and the media insist there was never any collusion with russia and because of the serious medical risks the president has taken the decision to commute the sentence this is not the same as a pardon or clearing the conviction it also makes the point that roger stone has appeal his conviction and wants to go through the judicial system which he believes will exonerate him just to remind you it was back in november last year that roger stone was convicted on a number of offenses including lying to congress
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Normally done but as highly alluded to earlier the president still holds very strong to that base of support that doesnt want him to do things the way washington has always done things and thats why theyre not particularly bothered that he has broken protocol even as democrats allege this hits the foundations of american democracy could have really go to any American Election security. All right thanks so much kimberly how to lets just well for a moment on the numbers that were seeing here on the screen now clearly weve got more yeas the nays thats not a huge surprise 215 saying yes to this motion versus 179. 00 according to how whats displayed on the screen now pretty much all the republican votes have said no to this and all but one democratic voice so far has said yes to this measure so that is very much a partisan vote i think that most people will agree but it does look like if you look at the numbers are still going up as we talk with why we need to wait a minute but now were at