Territories current and former Police Chiefs are among 11 officials targeted the sanctions were prompted by president trumps executive order last month to punish china over a sweeping National Security law imposed on hong kong so a clock has more from hong kong. A beijings top Representative Office in hong kong has released this statement strongly opposing and condemning the u. S. Treasury sanctions on hong kong and this is that this reveals the unscrupulous intentions of u. S. Politicians to support anti china color chaos in hong kong thats a quote from that particular statement and that he said these particular actions are really ridiculous again another quote its now we have had some comment as well from members of the Hong Kong Government weve had no official statement from carolan as yet but weve had ministerial representation do some feedback on media press conferences on saturday morning in particular the commerce and Economics Development minister it would yeah and he said thes
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Well i think the very real win for the Afghan Government and the Afghan People will be if we make concrete progress towards peace im sure that the president will be confident that this strength of his hand as he tries to set the conditions for the negotiations will draw a fence in a start to each afghanistan towards peace so yes it will strengthen the president s art there were some people of course who thought that they could get unconditional release of these prisoners and that there would be negotiations starting next week for anybody who thought that this may be a disappointment but we have to have a show of the of the Afghan People broadly speaking at the in favor of negotiations and Peace Process and the afghan president empowered to try to take that for us maybe its maybe its inched us its just towards the taliban to be fairly here at least with what theyve achieved so far this year through negotiations promise of u. S. Withdrawal out of reduction of u. S. Air pressure on their
Question why its taken so long. Welcome to the program afghanistans hires consultative body the loya jirga has remained as recommended that the government release of 400. 00 taliban prisoners but it says they should only be freed if they promise not to return to fighting again the release is seen as the last step to allow peace talks with the taliban to begin its now up to present a show of danny to make the final decision which could come as early as sunday. In our other top story the cleanup of lebanons damaged capital could soon give way to a new show of anger a mass protest against the government and the ruling Political Class is due to begin in the center of beirut in a few hours time search teams are still looking for 60 people reported missing after tuesdays port blast which killed 157 people shortly well speak to Bernard Smith on the search efforts but 1st this report from santa harder this is what is left of beirut port the stockpile of tons of Ammonium Nitrate that appeared t