not sure what s happened to all of them. some of them may have been sent to china for prosecution. very worrying, as well, many, many human rights groups in china and trades unions groups have simply stopped working because they are worried about repression, or even left hong kong altogether. and, most worrying of all, the groups who did testify to the un committee, it appears the committee could not get categoric cast iron assurances from hong kong stroke china that these people would not be persecuted for giving evidence to the committee. so, really, not a good look for china. the committee says the law should be repealed. it s you know, big open question, though, whether beijing is actually going to listen to any of that. hong kong s national security law was introduced injune 2020. and welcome back to over whether people will be persecuted giving
evidence. persecuted for giving evidence. hong kong s national security law was introduced injune 2020. it introduced penalties up to life in prison, covering broad categories including.. secession that s breaking away from the country subverting the authority of the government. as well as terrorism. and colluding with foreign powers. since its introduction the hong kong authorities have cracked down on pro democracy news outlets leading to several closing including the independent newspaper, apple daily, and earlier this year, the uk withdrew its two supreme courtjudges from hong kong s top court saying the threat to civil liberties in the territory had made their role untenable. chung ching kwong, is a political activist who left hong kong in the wake of the national security law she is hong kong campaigns coordinator for the inter parliamentary alliance on china and is in london. thank you for coming on the programme. first of all, is there anything in this report from the
which he served in the white house was as deputy national security adviser to the president of the united states. we are alsojoined president of the united states. we are also joined by sarah matthews. ms matthews began her career in communications working on capitol hill, serving on the republican staff have several health committees. she then worked as deputy press secretary for president trump s re election campaign before joining the trump were white houseinjune joining the trump were white house injune 2020. she served there as deputy press secretary and special assistant to the president until the evening of january 6 2021. i will now swear in our witnesses. the witnesses will please stand and raise their right hands. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? thank you. you may be
you invited his belgian king again. we have important things to settle here like - free education but the president i prefers we invite a belgian king, to do what? to loot us again? let s take a closer look at what king philippe said about belgium s colonial past. in a letter injune 2020 he wrote : i would like to express my deepest regrets for these injuries of the past, the pain of which is now revived by the discrimination still too present in our societies. it falls short of an apology and king leopold ii is never mentioned. the letter came after the death of george floyd in police custody in the us and the black lives matter protests that followed. these spread to belgium where there was a renewed focus on the nation s colonial history these images show authorities removing a statue of king leopold ii from a public square that same month they did so after thousands of belgians took part in demonstrations and vandalised statues of the colonial ruler. belgium s princess esmera
ina in a letter to conservative mps before the vote, he wrote. party unity remains a work in progress. today, the foreign secretary was focused on policy. what we ve been doing | today is getting on with the business of government. we ve had a cabinet meeting, we re working on making - housing more affordable, making childcare more i affordable, lowering taxes. currently, the uk has the highest tax burden since the late 1940s. lowering taxes is frequently emphasised by mrjohnson s allies in the overall message is this. no mr johnson is keen to look forward and turning to the media s part in the story. what this gives us is the opportunity to put behind us all the stuff that i know