Jim Duggan Al Jazeera once more head on the aljazeera news hour including we take a look at the situation in the syrian province of there are one year after rubble surrendered to government backed forces. More than 20 countries signed a letter to the un condemning whats to be chinas mass the tension off were muslims and Serena Williams and to another wimbledon final paper has been actually its. The 1st france has passed a controversial tax bill targeting tech giants the 1st if its type from one of the worlds Major Economies lets get some real care reaction to this and over to Lawrence Taylor with more from our european broadcast answer. Thanks arena yes the 3 percent tax affects Companies Like google apple facebook and amazon and the movers angered the white house u. S. President donald trump has ordered an investigation into the planned tax move that could result in retaliatory terrorists but reports from paris. A show of hands and a display of defiance french senators passed a law ta
Private into taste and for people that have committed crimes. Social media platforms like facebook and twitter were widely used to organize protests that ultimately toppled longtime leader Omar Al Bashir in april once the military took control for weeks protesters took to the streets demanding the formation of a civilian led government. Since the military crackdown trust between the military and civilians has been damaged but last week progress was made generals and protesters agree to form a joint civilian military ruling body together they plan to install a new government for a transitional period of 3 years oh despite recent violence many civilians say they will keep pushing for change but these pictures that can now be shared on mobile phones prove the path forward could be challenging katia llopis with a gun aljazeera. Or i still ahead on the program the indian women juba to removing that i would say so that menstruation cycles dont interfere that plus. Were in chad where a Nation
Increasingly hostile. Hello again its good to have you back well here across parts of china we have been talking about the ongoing flooding situation that has been going on here i want to show you the newest videos coming out of hunan as well as for g. M. Province already this year about 25000 people have had to be evacuated because of the flooding 77000 people have had to be relocated and as you can see with the newest images coming out it is still continuing across much of that area as we go towards thursday but the rain is going to continue across the same provinces to the north though were seeing some dry conditions normally though most of the heavy rain showers will have pushed more towards the north but unfortunately it has been quite dry up there we do expect to see more heavy rain though as we go towards thursday. Into friday making its way towards the north well over here towards india we are looking at a very heavy rain across parts of the north in the northeastern part of in
Has pledged 15000000. 00 to developing countries who want to improve their independent media and theyve earmarked that for bangladesh sierra leone and ethiopia to start with theyve also him up 3700000. 00 for the middle east to support Media Freedom there and the intervention side weve seen foreign secretary jeremy hunt make 5 pledges hes going to be creating a Global Media Defense Fund administered by the by the knesset hes going to be creating an International Taskforce to help governments meet their targets move that ranking system of the World Press Freedom index and thats going to be reviewed by the United Nations hes going to be helping to advise countries on how to strengthen the Legal Protection for journalists and that will be headed up by a human rights lawyer and now to me the most interesting link hes going to be forming a group of governments who will act as a Rapid Response unit when crimes are committed against the Media Freedoms and lastly hes going to be getting the co
Heart of government lawrence lee aljazeera in london. Always good to have Bill Schneider with us Public Policy professor at George Mason University in our washington new center hi bill this is pretty serious stuff the more i think about it the more information that comes out and when you consider the socalled special relationship which these 2 countries have and basically President Trump has decided. The future of a diplomat something thats never really been done before bill its come out here and im not sure if youre hearing me. Not thats a shame ok we will come back to Bill Schneider shortly on technical crew will reconnect with washington there in the meantime. Speaking of President Donald Trump he has issued another threat to iran over its Nuclear Program hes done it on twitter. That iran has long been secretly enriching. In total violation of the terrible 150000000000. 00 deal made by john kerry and the Obama Administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of year