Year tuning in from rights around the world welcome to my school and international my names you know in the. Following months of protests from the unrest in hong kong its now being felt much further afield for the 1st time since on to government demonstrations began on the chinese territory activist hong kong official it was visiting london. Was. It was very well the video that we just saw shows Hong Kongs Justice secretary to resign chang who was actually at the time in the u. K. Giving a speech about successful dispute resolution how she was targeted by dozens of protesters who pretty much mobbed her as she left the car now the activists were yelling murderer and as they also chase her down the street to put it show of the incidents the one that we just saw shows a chain being swamped and screamed ad and at some point she was even pushed to the ground and she injured her arm and she was taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment now an interesting detail is that Hong Kongs Justice
Prices have been rocketing in china. Is that suddenly we should be concerned about . Rico hizon will make sense of that for you in a moment. But we start in seoul, where the trial of the century is getting started. The head of the biggest company, samsung, is on trialfor bribery. Samsung might be a household name, globally, but his bossis household name, globally, but his boss is not. So what we know about him . He is the boss of the company, jay y lee, but is known by south korean media as the crown prince of samsung. That is because he is the only son of the chairman, lee kun hee, who was convicted of bribery and tax evasion himself, but was pardoned. So jay y lee has been in charge since his father had a heart attack in 2014. He has been the de facto boss. So the lee family are phenomenally wealthy. You can see the figure behind me. Forbes magazine ranking them asias richest Family Last Yearfor Magazine ranking them asias richest family last year for the second year ina family last
American history. The opening session is on africanamericans and religion. While we wait for the conference to begin, a look at a 2011 trip to a storage site in a washington, d. C. Suburb with the director of the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture. He showed us some of the artifacts that will be on display in the new museum, opening on the national mall, september 24, 2016. Right now, we are in the Storage Units of the National Museum of African American history and culture. In essence, this is the heart of the museum of. Because whats behind me, and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to sort of preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens in stores. The story of the africanamerican experience is both a story of resiliency at achievement, but its also a story of struggle. Parts ofe hard exploring this history is that were athe people who the w
Americans engaged beyond the United States. That is not the say the historians of the 18th and 19th centuries can ignore International Angles to their work. There is something inherent in the term africanAmerican History that is at the very least transnational. And scholars have spent a great deal of time exploring the relationships between the cultures of people of the west and West Central Africa and the cultures of the enslaved in america. Slavery institutions soft to constrain the worlds of this of the enslaved. All involving questions that would trend toward a regional perspective. Antislavery had been an obvious exception. Historians recognize the link between the british and antislavery movement, and they have traced the roles black abolitionists played in the struggles. Even hear internationalization was part of the study that was understood, a peculiar interest to African Americans asked africanamerican, rather than be part of an effort to explore the perspective abroad. There
Soninlaw of naacp Board Chairman channing tobias. As the chief of the African Union unit for the united nations, dean immediately sent white a draft of the report. It dismantled all of eugene blacks cliches about rising tides raising all boats. Deans analysis laid out that while south africa had the highest per capita annual income on the continent most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union in fact made 75 less per year. And minors despite the growing demand for labor earned only 4. 02 per week. The report reaffirmed whites position as he took to the media to make the case for cutting off all funds, especially that of the world bank to south africa. Eugene black, white noted, had exhibited a kind of naivete to construe milans nazi model of racial policies as benefiting all the population of south africa. This was dangerous and shallow thinking. The world banks loans did not help. Instead it had bolstered a racist dictatorship, undercut more moderate force