Are selected to stand on Election Committee which plays a crucial part in voting for hong kong next later now that election will be in 2020 kerry lamb is very unpopular at the moment but certainly if the prodemocracy groups in the prodemocracy parties have the majority in these district elections you could assume that a large part of those 117. 00 District Council selected will be from outside of politics leaked classified documents from chinas government have revealed new details about the mass detention of ethnic minorities muslim way gores Rights Groups estimate that more than a 1000000 people have been locked up in camps in the shin jiang region the reporting clues Intelligence Briefings that describe how police use a data system based around Artificial Intelligence to select who ought to be detained Arsalan Iftikhar is a human rights lawyer he says despite chinas denials the documents confirm what many have suspected about the camps. Its a completely orwellian system of ethnic cle
And with his country in the grip of massive protests colombias president begins what hes calling a National Dialogue. The big. Thank you for joining us prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an unprecedented and symbolic victory in District Council elections voters turned out in record numbers after almost 6 months of protests that have cause a territorys worst political crisis in decades live to soft rock in hong kong in just a moment but 1st this report from scott hyde. In a sweeping victory prodemocracy candidates made huge gains in hong kongs District Council elections gaining control from pro beijing parties. The voters sending a clear message in the 1st polling since the protest movement began. Even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots after nearly 6 months of at times violent demonstrations the pol
A trial in the Republican Controlled Senate to decide his fate plus. With the black market courts reward has killed people and made them sick so that to me is the biggest misconception. U. S. Tobacco companies insist their products are safe as the government considers a ban. And in sport and miles garrett is lost on appeal against his indefinite ban from the league eric had an opponent over the head with how it during a game last week. We began an iraq war Security Forces of killed 3 protesters in the capital baghdad it takes the total number killed since the beginning of october to at least 329. 00 demonstrators have been rallying against corruption or nonemployment the government has responded by promising political and social reforms to mona joins us live from baghdad so what is he saying today. Well weve just come back from square it was another tens there were very big crowds turning out following friday prayers and it was also a violent day we spoke to several protesters as well
Clashes with Security Forces. 2 people are dating bushfires devastating eastern parts of australia. We begin in chile where a group of protesters are openly defying president sebastian pin year as threat of tougher security measures against violent protesters demonstrators have set fire to a university in the capital santiago and some a looting and destroying properties in the last few hours police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who threw rocks in response demonstrations 1st began over a hike in metro phase but have now spiraled into widespread anger against the governments economic policies more than 20 people have been killed nearly 2000 others injured in violence over the past few weeks not all demonstrations have been violent though is our life in america editor lucy newman reports. Chile enters day 23 of this social upheaval we are still seeing the 2 faces of these demonstrations on the one hand tens of thousands of people again marching peacefully. The main converg
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