arrivals from china. celebrations are underway to mark the start of 2023 this is the scene live in hong kong the fireworks over the victoria harbour. and this taiwan the capital taipei with the fireworks shooting off the iconic skyscraper taipei 101. they have launched 16,000 fireworks in taiwan. the skyscraper is one of the tallest in the world. the extravaganza is going to last five minutes. and queen guitarist brian may and members of england s womens football team are among those celebrated in the uk s new year s honours list. hgppy happy new year to viewers in hong kong and taiwan. these are the scenes live. there was talk of their not being fireworks in hong kong but there are. there was an attempt to have a spectacular celebration and at last it is enjoying a degree of normalcy after the ravages of covid and the serious restrictions imposed on hong kong. this is always a beautiful display. in the evenings it is always pretty well lit up. we can watch for a mome
price manipulation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with some breaking news from the philippines, where the journalist and nobel peace prize winner maria ressa and her news site rappler have been acquitted by a court in the capital manila, of tax evasion charges. ms ressa, who was awarded the nobel prize alongside a russian journalist in 2021, is head of rappler, which earned a reputation for its in depth reporting and tough scrutiny of the former president rodrigo duterte. she was convicted in 2020 for libel, and does face several other charges, which she says are politically motivated. she spoke a short time ago. today, facts win. truth wins. justice wins. a brazen abuse of power. voice waivers and meant to stop journalists from doing theirjobs, but these cases are where capital markets, where rule of law, where press freedom meet, right? so, this acquittal inaudible is notjust for us, for rappler, it is for every filipino who has e
price manipulation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in the philippines, where the nobel prize winning journalist maria ressa has been acquitted of tax evasion charges by a manila court. her news site, rappler, was also cleared of tax evasion. ms ressa, who was awarded the nobel prize alongside a russian journalist in 2021, is head of rappler, which earned a reputation for its in depth reporting and tough scrutiny of the former president rodrigo duterte. she was convicted in 2020 for libel, and does face several other charges, which she says are politically motivated. she spoke a short time ago. today, facts win, truth wins, justice wins. a brazen abuse of power. voice waivers and meant to stop journalists from doing theirjobs, but.give me a second, these cases are where capital markets, where rule of law, where press freedom meet, right? so, this acquittal inaudible is notjust for us, for rappler, it is for every filipino who has ever
there is still a long way to go in the battle against inflation for families up and in the country who are seeing food price inflation of nearly 17% and that is causing a massive hike in the cost of the weekly shop. church of england bishops won t back a change allowing priests to marry same sex couples, sources tell the bbc. government plans to scrap thousands of eu era laws by the end of this year will be challenged in the commons today. britain s emma raducanu is in second round action at the australian open tennis. she s up against the american coco gauff. welcome. we begin this morning with breaking news coming to us in the last few minutes from ukraine. the country s interior minister denys monastyrskyy died in a helicopter crash in a suburb of kyiv. mr monastyrskyy was travelling with his deputy interior minister and a state secretary they have all been killed in a helicopter crash next to a kindergarten in brovary, east of kyiv. 16 people have been killed in total,
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