Over who gets the blocks he posts on in sports 15 year old curry golf eclipse is Venus Williams wimbledon its the 5 time champion in a stunning 1st round upset. It was the planned extradition law which spawned the protest movement but now hong kongs unrest is about so much more and its drawn the harshest words yet from the territories ultimate rulers in beijing its called mondays takeover of the Hong Kong Legislative Council a blatant challenge to the one country 2 systems bottom line and they say we express our vehement condemnation against the scenes getting the attention while it was this sort of thing a british flag being on filled in the parliament in the defacing of the official seal of hong kong symbolic as well because remember it was 22 years to the day since britain handed over control. Of hong kong to china that anniversary also marks by yet another huge march this one was the 3rd in the matter of weeks around half a 1000000 people filling the streets protesting not just aga
None of the main figures in the party chose to stand for election and perhaps for wise reasons. The one candidate that emerged at the end was a relatively less wellknown personality in taiwan, who has recently been the deputy seek of the legislative uon. Before the Public Opinion poll to determine whether if she would qualify to be the Party Candidate was held, the party did not arrange any time when she would present her platform to the public. And so when the voters that were polled, not the voters, the people who were polled reacted to her, what were they reacting to . They were reacting to her personal story which is quite compelling and interesting, and they were reacting to personality as an outspoken and atypical kmt politician. When the poll was conducted, she surprised many people, including myself, and got a 46 support rate, which was well beyond the threshold that the party had set for a potential candidate. Shortly afterward, however, her poll numbers began to collapse. Why
Political type revolution, someone pointed out already that we have new generation of or maybe geographical changes. Do you characterize this coming election outcome, characterize it more by recuring political outcome or having coming together . Do you want to take that . Yeah. I think i already mentioned in my remark there that this election will obviously trigger a generational shift. That will clearly be the case with dpp or for the green camp as a whole. And also, a lot of people in their 30s or even late 20s, they have been very active in social movement and also grassroots organization. They will steadily climb up the ladder and become an important forces in shaping the electoral politics. It depends on how his party and his own turn out. Ing . He might be around for quite a while, if his party turns out to be a critical voting bloc, then you know. On the other hand, if in the end, a lot of the voters abandoned him in the very end and his party actually couldnt really play a very
Protesters call off talks with the city leaders. Well be live from there. Heading back to the negotiation table north and south korea resume formal high level talks. We begin this newshour with developments in syria and iraq. The Syrian Border town of kobani has been the focal point for weeks as radical fighters close in, driving thousands away. The Syrian National coalition is warning of a genocide of the kurdish population. Overnight u. S. Led Coalition Air strikes struck two targets, providing support for the kurdish fighters on the ground. The turkish government said this will not hesitate to protect troops guarding a shrine to the otto man empire inside syria. Tens of thousands of muslims flee violence in iraq and syria. We have reporters in iraq and turkey. Monica is in erbil in northern iraq. First, lets go to Bernard Smith. He is on the syriaturkey border for us. Bernard smith, firstly, what is the latest on the fighting in kobani . Another morning of exchange of gun fire. We h
The top stories on al jazeera exit. Polls in israel are showing full. My Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that to return to power with a slim majority. Hes the longest serving Prime Minister and left office, 16 months ago. Catholic apartments again la pete says he will still wait for the final results. I will carry on for the next 2 days until the last on below has been opened. We will have to wait with patients even if we dont have patients for the final results to come in. Ive come here this evening to thank you from the bottom of my heart. We have achieved an unbelievable result today. Close to 1000000 Israeli Citizens voted and the mandate was unheard of. The. The style that in smith has more from western islam is up to 60 minute position. Halting is returned to office. It seems that netanyahu was pulled it off. And what happened really mattered in this election, was getting out the vote then. Yeah, campaign, very odd. In the last couple of weeks in a row up to the elections, r