Colonial past in africa i think for the rights of the president of the democratic republic of congo expressing regret cooking leopolds brutal rule as the d. L. C. Monks 60 years of independence. Time for girl welcome to the program chinas president xi jinping has signed into law a controversial new measures that critics fear will restrict freedoms in hong kong if though the new National Security laws which took a media to effect will undermine the one country 2 systems policy agreed and beijing resumed control of the former british colony in 1970 but has described this as a gray staff the European Union says it deplores the move. They feel at this might be their last chance to protest. Todays flash mall been a Shopping Center was small but defiant everyone knew things were changing and some feared showing their faces. On the day i feel on the top of that its very sad because they can ask of can they even dont know the detail of the law it just pass it and if no one rejects so. I think
The s p is up. The pmi data driving the euro higher. You are seeing a little bit of a market, buthe bond its not a big one. Its not really reacting in the same way that the rest of the market is. We have some great guests lined up. Hour, up later on in the the former secretarygeneral of nato and former Prime Minister of denmark. We will get his take on whether europe is capable of standing up to china. He wrote an interesting piece today. We will get more on that. Alix to start focusing in on europe and the optimism from the positive pmi, mike mckee joins us now to dig through the details. Mike, what are the highlights . The question would be why better ko not doing is why is france not doing better . Measure howxes Companies Think this month is compared to last month. It doesnt tell us anything about the level of activity, but it does tell us there has been some sort of rebound, particularly in france. The french manufacturing numbers are over 50. The Service Numbers are over 50. And
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Taking place on wednesday morning the police blocked these protesters but significantly these protesters were calling for the end of one party rule in china at the end of the dictatorship i spoke to one of the protesters a very own who said that he fully expects to be arrested so these people are out intentionally to test the law now i saw several people being taken away i dont know if they were arrested but the police held back in terms of using the usual sort of assertive actions weve seen during the past few weeks and months carol and the chief executive of hong kong addressed that ceremony that flag raising ceremony on wednesday morning she said this new law was necessary and filled a very big gap she also said the past year had been the most difficult of her career but she said the mainland government had helped to pull her through the storm was passing and was now going to be a rainbow but i think her strategy at the moment is to try to rebuild hong kongs image any way she can pa
Hello im come all santamaria this is counting the cost on aljazeera the way you look at the world of business and economics this week europe does the continent deal with a rising china and a u. S. President who riles his own allies to the threats facing new york from a silent chinese economic takeover before trade war with the United States also as black lives matter draws the worlds attention will look at how Silicon Valley and the world of finance has really failed black people talk to the. State backed Cyber Attacks theyre nothing new but theyre also on the rise during the pandemic and the targets are the vaccine. These are i think we can all agree extraordinary times but zoom out and youll see the big picture is just as unpredictable were focusing on europe this week which is that a bit of a crossroads when you consider the pandemic as well as an expansive china and a retreating United States as we know President Trump has a habit of undermining his allies he surprised a lot of peo